Ep. 117 - Rebranding the American Cow Boy

When it comes to the history of the American Cowboy, modern media has painted the picture to look one way when the reality shows that enslaved African Americans known as "Cow Boys" were truly the icons that changed the west, creating a unique equalizer post Emancipation Proclamation. Katie Surritt & Katie Schrock take a deep dive into the history of African American cow boys and the impacts they have had on the west, cattle drives, and rodeo as we know it.

Advocacy, Rodeo, Western Lifestyle, Western History, RanchingKatie SchrockFebruary 15, 2023Cowboy, cow boy, Katie Surritt, Katie Schrock, Fred Whitfield, history, slavery, African American, Yellowstone, Gunsmoke, Beth Dutton, Dutton, Gambia River alley, Africa, cow hunters, cowpunchers, cattlemen, drovers, ranchers, plantations, civil war, Yellowstone 1883, Johanna July, Army, emancipation proclamation, emancipation, Abraham Lincoln, Disney, Pendleton, Washington, Oregon, KKK, segregation, cowpunchers association, punchy, world war II, Matthew Bones Hook, black cowboys in the american west, the black west, Guts: legendary black rodeo cowboy bill pickett, Black women of the west, black frontier: a history of african american heroes in the old west, Lesser known history of African American cowboys, Spanish Louisiana land policy, Library of congress colectionComment

Ep. 95- Pendleton Round Up President Randy Bracher

Pendleton Round Up was forced to miss the 2020 event due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to add salt in the wound, they had won seven consecutive ProRodeo Large Outdoor Rodeo of the Year. In 2021, they were back and better than ever - reclaiming their title at the 2021 PRCA Awards Banquet. But it was no small feat and Pendleton President Randy Bracher shares how they overcame the challenges and difficulties that held them up for the 2021 event.

Rodeo, Western Lifestyle, Ranching, Farming, AdvocacyKatie SchrockDecember 1, 2021Pendleton Round Up, Pendleton, Pendleton Whisky, Green Mile, Stock Contractor, Hermiston FarmPro, Randy Bracher, President, Rodeo Association, Membership, volunteers, communityComment

Ep. 83 - HorsePro.TV's Shaina Zollman

Shaina Zollman grew up in the cowboy town of Pendleton, Oregon, and went on to follow in her families legacy of Pendleton Round-Up participation and volunteerism when she was a part of their court as first a princess and then the queen. After her years as a titleholder, she got involved with cow horses and, after graduating from Oregon State University with a Wildlife Biology degree, she found her passion of education and content creation with her boyfriend, Dusty. Together they created HorsePro.TV where Shaina took Dusty’s idea and learned all the technology needed to make it a reality. She does all of the content strategy, video creation, and membership outreach and management for their online database of fundamental equine training programs.

Ep. 65 - Staying True to Your Country Music Roots with Olivia Harms

Join host Katie Schrock as she chats with Canby, Oregon, country music star Olivia Harms about her life on a cow-calf operation, moving to the Cowboy Capitol of Oregon (that's Prineville for the non-Oregonians), commuting with Nashville, her album debuting later this year AND, as if that wasn't enough, all about her time spent internationally playing country music with her legendary 2020 Western Music Hall of Fame inductee mother, Joni Harms!

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