![]() Surely the third chapter-“‘Bucking the Odds and Breaking New Ground’: Native Americans Ranching for Others and Rodeoing for Themselves”-could fill 200 pages on its own, much to the satisfaction of Great Plains historians and scholars. Each of the groups researched here is deserving of its own monograph, perhaps, instead of each being just one part of an overall examination of how American West stereotypes have been so misleading. ![]() The association of rodeo with the American West and the Great Plains is imprinted in historical consciousness, yet Ford successfully overwrites stereotypical perceptions with her analysis. Combined with Ford’s meticulous research, it is a helpful addition to keep details appropriately organized for the reader. Also included is a short glossary of terms (187–89), which is beneficial for all readers. With connections to the present, Ford successfully explores change over time in multiple historiographical realms. In five chapters, each covering a different group’s origins and evolution in the American West, Ford consistently emphasizes and examines gender and how each respective community used rodeo to define its own identity to meet its own needs. The study itself is concise and direct, with sufficient notes and sources. To wit, the Great Plains Indian Rodeo Association, with three-quarters of its 2015 executive membership comprised of women (106), certainly has dismissed many stereotypes. Ford also states that the involvement of diverse peoples in a “White, masculine, and heterosexual American event” (15–16) provided the opportunity for “others” to expand thought and understanding of the American West and its cultural meaning. Through comparative, intersectional analysis of race, gender, and sexuality, her study is a cultural history exploring “rodeo as something beyond a basic competitive environment” (3). Thanks to Elyssa Ford’s Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion, we now see the West as it was in the Great Plains more clearly: populated by people of color with a firm sense of belonging to America regardless of demographic identity, and more populated by women and diverse sexuality than society has been taught.įord argues rodeo itself as a “site of cultural history” with tremendous meaning and significance for Mexican, Hawai‘ian, Native American, Black, and LGBTQ groups. ![]() The facts, specifically within rodeo itself, are much more complex and diverse. The annual event reflects a time when the XIT Ranch stretched across 3 million acres of Texas Panhandle prairies.įor information, call 80 or visit versions of the American West stylized in twentieth-century multimedia have had pop-culture consumers believing the West was mostly White. Tickets are $10 Thursday, $15 Friday and $20 Saturday. nightly dances are Cameran Nelson on Thursday, Bart Crow on Friday and Cody Johnson on Saturday. at the arena.īands performing for the 9 p.m. down Denrock Avenue the fiddlers contest at noon at Rita Blanca Lake Picnic Pavilion the annual Mud Bogs at the old KOA campground near the arena and the "world's largest free barbecue" from 4 to 6 p.m. at Dalhart Senior Citizens Center, 610 Denrock Ave. ![]() On Saturday, events include the XIT Breakfast and Brunch at 8 a.m. Thursday at United Supermarket, 1601 Tennessee Blvd. Fifth St., through Saturday the Joe Nisbett XIT FK and one-mile run Saturday and more.Ī free chicken leg feed begins at 4 p.m. The fun continues around town with work from featured artist Roylynn Evans at XIT Museum, 108 E. nightly through Saturday at the rodeo arena, 1219 Farm-to-Market Road 281.Īdmission is $10 adults and $5 for children ages 5 to 12 on Friday and Saturday children 12 and younger are free Thursday with a donation of Pop Tarts or peanut butter for Snack Pak 4 Kids. Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association competition takes place at 7 p.m. Action continues through Saturday at the 79th annual XIT Rodeo and Reunion in Dalhart.
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