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Catch Rope: The Long Arm of the Cowboy: The History and Evolution of Ranch Roping

Name: Catch Rope: The Long Arm of the Cowboy: The History and Evolution of Ranch Roping
Author: John R. Erickson
ISBN: 9781574411133

by John R. Erickson

Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Pages: 168
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ISBN: 9781574411133

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Overview of Catch Rope: The Long Arm of the Cowboy: The History and Evolution of Ranch Roping

For more than a hundred years, American cowboys made their living through the skilled use of horse and rope. Whole libraries have been devoted to the horse, but no one, until now, has written a thorough study of the origins and evolution of ranch roping - which differs from arena roping as practiced by rodeo cowboys. Author/cowboy John Erickson studies ranch roping; and the endless debate between those cowboys who rope "hard and fast" and those who "dally." Mixing scholarship with this working-cowboy's knowledge of the subject, Erickson tells stories of cowboys who could not resist fitting their loops on "things that ort not to be roped," such as elk, deer, badgers, bears, and bobcats. He tells of jackrabbit roping contests, and of cowboys who roped mice, geese, hogs, wives, or a runaway milk wagon. Anyone who has ever "built a loop" or even thought about it will find this book hard to put down.