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The Calgary Stampede began in 1912 as a six-day event, founded by American trick roper and showman Guy Weadick. Weadick staged a second Stampede in Winnipeg the following year,...

It is no surprise that the Stampede and the film industry would not take long to intersect. Two different motion picture companies shot films at the initial 1912 event,³and...

The star of 1925’s The Calgary Stampede, Nebraska-born Hoot Gibson, a champion rodeo rider, even won the Steer Roping Championship at the first Calgary Stampede in 1912. By the...

Malloy specializes in the spectacular and dangerous “Roman racing,” done while standing on two horses simultaneously. Racial identity in the West is an interestingly prominent concern in The Calgary...

It is likely due to the success of The Calgary Stampede that, seven years later, The Girl from Calgary, seems to assume that the viewer does not need...