What is it about?
Rebecca Scofield skillfully Scofield highlights the lives of female bronc riders, convict cowboys, all-black western performers, and gay rodeoers. She shows how :people mostly missing in western culture found belonging and meaning in rodeo.
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Why is it important?
Broadening the cast of historical characters is among the most exciting aspects of modern US western historiography. Scofield contributes to this important task with verve and probing research.
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Having spent many decades researching and writing about US cowboy history and culture, I am delighted to see a young scholar going beyond past topics and approaches, further broadening out understanding and appreciation of the American West.
Richard W. Slatta
North Carolina State University
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This page is a summary of: Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West by Rebecca Scofield, Great Plains Quarterly, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/gpq.2020.0042.
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