Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” was playing as the Black cowboy stood on his saddle and started dancing. This was 1978, at a raucous nighttime rodeo in Bastrop, Texas, and Sarah ...
Bird submitted her photos of Black rodeos to publications everywhere, but all were rejected. Now, 50 years and 11 novels later, there has been a revived interest in the world of Black rodeos (perhaps ...
Writer Sarah Bird first got to know Texas through her camera lens. In the 1970s, the future novelist got a fellowship to study journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. She found a home in the ...