With a lively anecdotal narrative and more than 350 illustrations, Riding High captures the full panorama of Colorado ranching and its annual celebration on everything from rustlers and sodbusters to blizzards and dust storms: everything that both bedeviled ranchers and made them heroes. Since its shaky beginnings, the Stock Show has grown into the largest and longest festival in the Rocky Mountains, attracting more than 600,000 spectators and the country’s top animals, rodeo stars, horse show aficionados, and western merchandise vendors.
Paperback, 340 pp, 9 x 12
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