Rodeo Association of America

American organization

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regulation of rodeos

  • Bill Pickett
    In rodeo: Origins and history

    In 1929 the Rodeo Association of America, an organization of rodeo managers and producers, was formed to regulate the sport. The contestants themselves took a hand in 1936 after a strike in Boston Garden and organized the Cowboy Turtles Association—“turtles” because they had been slow to act. That…

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