Read the West Book Club

Read the West Book Club: Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo and a Hidden History of the American West

Authors David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo unspools a fascinating and captivating true story of the Hawaiian cowboys who changed rodeo and the West forever. In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world’s greatest rodeo. They had travelled 3,000 miles from Hawaii, where their ancestors had herded cattle for generations, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the Hawaiians left the heartland as champions—and American legends. 

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