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Outriders
Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled cowboys succeed. In the mythos of this quintessentially western sport, the hero is often a stoic white man...
ISBN: 9780295746777
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Counterpunch
The Cultural Battles over Heavyweight Prizefighting in the American West
Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport’s meteoric rise in...
ISBN: 9780295744322
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Bike Battles
A History of Sharing the American Road
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that...
ISBN: 9780295742663
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Playing While White
Privilege and Power on and off the Field
Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field. Offering critical analysis of athletic stars such as Johnny Manziel, Marshall Henderson, Jordan...
ISBN: 9780295741888
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Trout Culture
How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture:...
ISBN: 9780295741703
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The Creator's Game
Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
Lacrosse has been a central element of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous...
ISBN: 9780774836036
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Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers,...
ISBN: 9781771992282
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Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing
In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the “crude western boats” and their crews....
ISBN: 9780295994840
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Becoming Big League
Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics
Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond. Bill Mullins focuses...
ISBN: 9780295994253
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Better than the Best
Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007
In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football...
ISBN: 9780295990538
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Their Day in the Sun
Women of the 1932 Olympics
The 1932 Olympic games took place in Los Angeles in the depths of the Great Depression; that they were held at all falls barely short of miraculous. The United States sent thirty-seven women to compete—seventeen...
ISBN: 9780295975542
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