Meet the Black women who left an indelible mark on the rodeo and western culture as we know it today. 1. Verna Lee “Boots” Booker Hightower As the first Black woman to compete in the Houston ...

Not all cowboys participate in rodeo, of course — but Black Americans make up a significant ... was a derivative of “boy” or “cow boy,” a pejorative term used to refer to African ...

World champion rider J.B. Mauney broke his neck on Arctic Assassin last year. Now he keeps the old bull at his ranch.

hailed as the “Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” becoming the first Black cowboy to qualify for the ... got her drip from the folks who embraced the cow girl culture before her like the women from ...

The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo ... on a cow. A good ol’ Texas kid with spunk. In March, Texas native Beyoncé released her first country album, “Cowboy Carter,” putting Black cowboy ...

They were all in Tulsa in early February ahead of the Oklahoma Black Rodeo at Tulsa's Expo Square. "The importance of having someone like myself, a woman, in cowboy culture...it's big," said ...

She has competed in Oklahoma’s Black rodeos from the time she was about 10 to her mid-20s. After a barrel-racing, team-roping career, Givings made her mark in the Boley Rodeo in 2018 when she ...