Aloha Rodeo by David Wolman & Julian Smith
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In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to compete in the world’s greatest rodeo. Steer-roping master Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka’au’a had travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions—and American legends.
An unforgettable human drama set against the wild frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 journey shaped the history of the American West.
