Trick roping
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Floreo de reata or trick roping is a Mexican entertainment or competitive art involving the spinning of a lasso, also known as a lariat or a rope. Besides Mexico and Mexican charrería, it is also asso
A Charro throws a mangana or fore-footing loop to capture a bull (1911).
Charro executing a mangana, roping the forelegs of a bull.
Lassoing or roping a bull by the horns.
Front cover of Reglas con que un Colegial pueda Colear y Lazar", the first roping manual, by Luis G. Inclán (1860).
Wild West shows
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Wild West shows were traveling vaudeville performances in the United States and Europe that existed around 1870–1920. The shows began as theatrical stage productions and evolved into open-air shows th
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World - Poster showing cowboys rounding up cattle and portrait of Col. W. F. Cody on horseback. c.1899.
Buffalo Bill Cody, Ned Buntline, Texas Jack Omohundro in The Scouts of the Prairie, 1872.
Poster showing Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World battling Cuban insurgents, c. 1898
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, taken while on tour in Montreal, 1885