Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia: Representation, Rodeo, and the Rcmp at the Royal Easter Show, 1939

by Lynda Mannik

The big new thrill at this year's Royal Show will be the Chuck Wagon Races, with Red Indians in full war-paint going helter-skelter around the arena, chuck wagons swaying and jostling perilously, horse teams urged with wild whooping into a frenzy of speed.
--Newspaper advertisement, Sydney, Australia, March 1939.

In 1939, a troupe of eight rodeo riders, accompanied by an RCMP officer, travelled to Sydney, Australia, to compete in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552382001
• ISBN13: 9781552382004
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"