From pole bending to bronc riding, Tom Watson leads you through 50 exciting years of high school rodeo in the state of Louisiana. The book is filled with a collection of 75 photos and the historical background of the people who gave high school rodeo its solid foundation today. It's a collection of anecdotes that traces the state's high school rodeo history from its birth in 1950 in the small community of Sulphur, Louisiana, to the year 1999. Watson, the former chairman and professor of the Department of History at McNeese State University, holding a Ph.D., received the Southwest Historical Association's Donald Millet Historical Writing Award in 1999 for this book. Appendix with national and state champions. Biographical index included.
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