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Gold Buckle: The Grand Obsession of Rodeo Bull Riders

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The sequence in which the book is written adds variety and develops a love for the top riders, such as Tuff Hedeman and Ty Murray. I closed the book with a great feeling of satisfaction and felt a yearning to read and learn more. I would recommend this book to anyone with even the slightest interest in bull riding.

This is a very good and captivating book and something every rodeo fan should read. If you want to learn more about bull riding legends like Don Gay, Myrtis Dightman, Wacey Cathey, Tuff Hedeman, Lane Frost, Jim Sharp and Ty Murray, this is probably the only place you can find it told so colorfully and honestly. It is also nice to read about the days when the world's top bull riders were cowboys and actually competed at rodeos, and not the pretentious PBR events. It also takes a look at how bull riding's popularity surged in the 90s. I just hope a similar book on bronc riders comes out soon.

I just finished the book and I have to say this is the best I've ever read. If you watch the PBR, you have to buy this book. Donnie Gay, Tuff Hedemann, Ty Murray, Charles Sampson, they are all here.

This is a really great book. I'm a huge rodeo fan, and I just couldn't put this one down. It gives a great look at some of bull riding's top men, a peak into their everyday lives, careers, and thoughts. I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves a good book.

Best nonfiction book about professional bull riders you'll find. Coplon weaves through a bull riders world both in and out of the arena. Be ready to shake the dust off your back when you finish this book--you'll feel like you've been on the back of Bodacious. Coplon makes you feel like you're partners with the top bull riders--Tuff Hedeman, Ty Murray, Cody Lambert, Jim Sharp, and legend Lane Frost. Read how the Professional Bull Riders Assoc. began and will continue to grow for decades. Best rodeo book I've ever read-again and again and again.

Just finished the hardback version. As a bullrider and saddlebronc rider I have never read anything as painfully accurate about our sport as this book. The only drawback is I couldnt put it down and as i finished I wanted MORE. I hope he writes a second book..because Jeff Coplon knows more about rodeo than some cowboys. NICE JOB.

Gold Buckle is an awesome book. It gives insight into the sport of bull riding and some of the better known riders. It also includes some really great pictures. I have enjoyed reading and rereading this book many times. I have also recommended it to many of my friends.

The description that the author gives is so good that everything he was writing about,I could see it clearly in my mind.I know the riders so well that it was amazing how easily he put the characters and their characteristics into words that were so descriptive and easy for any reader to get a clear picture of them in their own mind. I loved the up close and personal touch that Coplon presented in his book.He didn't just present facts that most bullriding fans read over and over in other books.I have to give a thumbs up for not only this awesome book,but also for the awesome writing technique that Coplon used to make the book as great as what it is.If five stars is as high as this book can be rated,I give it five and a half.

I've rode bulls for quite a while and thought this book was great.

gold buckle .jeff coplon