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This Week in the West: Ralph Doubleday and the Birth of Rodeo Photography
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🎙️ Episode 35: Ralph Doubleday and the Birth of Rodeo Photography
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In this episode of This Week in The West, we take you back to the dusty arena of Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1910, where a single photograph would help define the visual legacy of rodeo in America. Behind the lens was Ralph Doubleday, a tenacious and inventive photographer whose work transformed rodeo into a national spectacle.
Listeners will learn how Doubleday, raised far from the frontier in Iowa, embraced early photography as his ticket to adventure. From photographing foreign lands…
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