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Gold Buckle Dreams: The Rodeo Life Story of Chris LeDoux

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I actually read this book about 4 years agoand thought that it was an excellent review of Chris's life. I began listening to Chris at an early age and was very interested to learn more about his life and this book was just the tool i needed. There are some excellent pictures of Chris riding broncs, and others of him in his younger years. I highly recommend this book to any one who is a Chris Ledoux fan.

Anyone who's every rodeo'ed or thought about going do the road, pick this book up, through your rigging on and hang on for a wild 8 second ride!

As both a former rodeo cowboy and long time Chris Ledoux fan, I found this book a very excellent read!

This is a look behind a legend - something I'm sure he'd deny. Chris left this world much too soon, but this covers his early days before Nashville took note through his name being mentioned in Garth's song. For Chris fans or rodeo fans...excellent book.

Chris Ledoux was a 1970 and early 80 rodeo star. If you have ever wondered what a bare back bronc rider goes through to win the National Finals Rodeo bareback bronc riding championship this book is a must. The author David Brown takes you through the early days when Chris was just a kid watching his childhood rodeo stars perform where he got the desire to be rodeo bronc rider himself. Chris started in Little Britches Rodeo, then High School and College and on to be a professional rodeo star where he endured low pay, bad rides, and severe injuries, all the way to the NFR where Chris finally wins the Gold Buckle in the bareback riding to fulfill his Gold Buckle Dreams. This is one of my favorite books.

I've rodeoed for a number of years and been a Chris LeDoux fan for even longer. This was a great book about how much it took him to win the world. I passed it on to my younger brother who read it and thought it was great. It was a sad day in rodeo and country music when he passed away.

this is an awsome book about chris ledoux's rodeo day's it has some very cool pictures you may or maynot see anywhere else, this is a must reed,for any of you chris ledoux fans out there. sadly chris is no longer with us, but he will always live in our memories of his rodeo days aswell as his music. long live chris ledoux a real cowboy.

I bought this book during an impromptu overnight stay in Kaycee, Wyoming after visiting the park that has been built as a memorial to Chris LeDoux. I had been a fan of his music for years, and had the opportunity to see him in a number of live shows, but never got to watch him during his rodeo career. I promised myself if I ever got close to Kaycee, I would visit the park. Having the opportunity to meet some of the nice people of Kaycee, it was fun to read about folks with the same last names in the book, knowing that I'd visited with a few of their relatives during my trip.

"Gold Buckle Dreams: The Rodeo Life Story of Chris LeDoux" is written almost in the first person - that is to say, the tone is almost as if you were hearing Chris tell his own story. For a long time after finishing the book, I couldn't figure out why I thought that. Then it dawned on me that much of the story has indeed been told in Chris's own words, through his songs. I don't know if the author used this as a mechanism intentionally or if it was just a natural extension of his familiarity with Chris, but for me, at least, it created a connection.

If you are a devoted fan of Chris LeDoux, if you're a rodeo junkee, if you appreciate honest writing about western life, if you are curious what it really is like to be a professional athlete in America's only true sport, or if you just want to own a little piece of American history, then you should buy this book. It is an easy read and hard to put down. I wish there were a similar account of his musical career, detailing the ins and outs of first making your own music, then dealing with record labels, the concert trail, etc.