A teenager on a horse in a rodeo enclosure
A rider being thrown from a bull
A cowboy looking out over the arena
Aerial view of a rodeo arena
Rodeo participants at an arena gate
Three girls wearing pageant sashes
A man grimacing on a horse
A man being thrown from a bronco
Girls on horseback
A man leaving a rodeo gate
The American flag over a rodeo arena
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Bucking BroncoThe Lost Dutchman Days Rodeo in Apache Junction, Arizona, embraces and promotes the cowboy heritage of the American West. In 2009, the American Festivals Project headed out to take in the fun: the Lost Dutchman Days Parade, classic carnival rides, an arts and crafts fair, and a cash-prize rodeo. Here, 17-year-old Clayton Hill prepares to enter the rodeo arena on a bronco. A high school student, Hill travels to rodeos on weekends and earns thousands of dollars in prize money. Read more about the Lost Dutchman Days Rodeo on the American Festivals Project blog.
Photograph by Andrew Owen, American Festivals Project

Lost Dutchman Days Rodeo

See photos of the 2009 Lost Dutchman Days Rodeo in Apache Junction, Arizona, in this American Festivals Project travel photo gallery from National Geographic.

April 05, 2010

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