Title:

Robert Edward (Bob) Rooker rodeo archive, 1923-1957

Creator/Contributor:

Rooker, Robert Edward (Bob), creator, creator.

Correspondence; contracts and bids; programs and advertisements; and a small amount of photographs, dating from 1923 to 1957, and belonging to Robert Edward "Bob" Rooker, rodeo promoter and performer in the northwestern United States. Material documents Rooker's interactions with performers, promoters, local officials, stock salespeople, costumers, photographers, and announcers and rodeo associations such as the Rodeo Cowboy Association, the Northwest Ranch Cowboy Association, and the International Rodeo Association. Includes correspondence with or about fifteen different female rodeo performers including Tad Lucas, Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer; Mary Faith McLean, teenage trick rider; and May Raymond Boss, trick rider and charter member of the Stuntwomen's Association. Papers also document the Hellgate Rodeo Company of Missoula, a rodeo promotion company Rooker started with Harold L. "Bud" Lake in 1947. Some business correspondence shows Rooker's wife, Adrienne (Thompson) Rooker, as Secretary of Hellgate Rodeo Company. Includes a small amount of Rooker's personal papers, including some military papers documenting his time as a sergeant at Camp Ruston, Louisiana, a World War II prisoner of war camp.

Date:

1923 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Rodeo -- United States

Rodeo performers -- United States

Women rodeo performers -- United States

Cowboys de rodéo -- États-Unis

Cowgirls de rodéo -- États-Unis

Rodeo performers

Women rodeo performers

United States

Rooker, Robert Edward (Bob) -- Archives

Purchase from Langdon Manor Books, LLC; 2023.

Robert Edward (Bob) Rooker rodeo archive, BANC MSS 2023/109, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

Archives

print

1.25 (1

English

Origin:

California