Julesburg Public Library

Riding, roping, flanking, tying.

Readers will learn all about rodeo ropers, along with facts about safety, techniques and the animals themselves.

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...