Thoroughly researched and incorporating colourful slabs of oral history, this book records a hitherto unknown part of Australia's sporting culture and heritage and its present-day romantic lifestyle. Rodeo in Australia is a sport that is often misunderstood. It hasn't received its due, despite its long and proud history and our nation's extraordinary accomplishments locally and internationally. With nearly 100 black and white colour pics, history and popular culture icons will come alive as never before. Covers everything there is to know about rodeos, riding and cowboys; from when the first horses came, the bushman's carnivals and the wild west shows through to women rough riders and rodeo events as they are today.