New Book Examines 1911 Pendleton Round Up

Earlier this week, I went to the Pendleton Up and enjoyed visiting with family and friends from all of Eastern Oregon. It is always an enjoyable rodeo and fun celebration. While in Pendleton I stopped by and visited with prolific Western author Rick Steber.

His new book features Pendleton Round Up history and he is selling his books at the Round Up as well as his website. He shares more about the new book.

Steber: “The new book is called Red, White, Black. It is about the 1911 Pendleton Round Up. The finals of the saddle bronc came down to three men of different color: Jackson Sundown, a full blooded Nez Perce; John Spain from a pioneering family; and George Fletcher an African-American. And what happen that day is really what the book is about.”

The book has a lot of amazing photos from that second year of the Pendleton Round Up and really gives the reader a sense of being there to witness the sport of rodeo at the time as well as controversial decision of the judges and the audience’s. reaction to the decision.

Steber spent nearly four decades researching this story and has written more than 30 books both fiction and non-fiction with most having to do with the West and the Western way of life. He is the only Oregon author to have won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award -- Best Western Novel.

Check out his website of ricksteber.com -- you spell his last name S-T-E-B-E-R