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A Century of Photos
December 2007
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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December 2007
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Photograph Courtesy Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce
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THE BUCKAROO STOPS HERE
Photographer Ralph R. Doubleday made a career of catching cowboys in midair. From around 1910 to 1952, he followed rodeos big and small all over the U.S., with only a camera between him and the hooves. Doubleday shot rider Tex Parker (left) in 1919 at Wyoming's Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo. The image never ran in the Geographic, but it was a popular postcard; over the years, "Old Dub" sold millions of his rodeo photos this way. "He would take pictures one day, develop and print them at night, and have them for sale in the stands the next day," wrote rodeo announcer Foghorn Clancy of Doubleday. "His photography has been a big factor in the development of the sport, for action pictures, like nothing else, can depict the thrill and excitement of the game."
—Margaret G. Zackowitz
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