Rodeo Round Up

Chair: Gerrianne Schaad, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

The mythic culture of the American West is alive and bucking in the sport of rodeo. This panel will

address the issues and challenges of developing a rodeo archive, including a collection strategy,

processing and preserving the collections, and attracting a worldwide audience to use them. The

discussion will center on the Dickinson Research Center’s recent experience with the Rodeo

Historical Society Records. Through presenting hands‐on experience of the tasks necessary to

preserve such a significant element of rodeo history, the panel will show the importance of

collecting rodeo history.

• Roping and Riding: The Story of the Rodeo Historical Society
• • Holly Hasenfratz, Oklahoma State University
• Cutting Out the Bull: Processing the Rodeo Historical Society Records
  
• • Kera Newby, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
    
• Opening the Chute to the Rodeo Archives
• • Gerrianne Schaad, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum