Few things are as classically American as the cowboy. And the most thrilling real-life setting for a modern cowboy is one of America"s fastest growing spectator sports and its most dangerous . . . rodeo, a sport that makes professional wrestling look like a picnic. Now comes Roughstock: the first full-color photography book dedicated to the culture of rodeo -- packed with one hundred ten gorgeous photographs never before seen. Today"s rodeo cowboys -- much like those of yesterday -- are multicultural, with African Americans, Hispanics, whites, women, and Native Americans among the greatest rodeo stars.