First Stampede of Flores Ladue The True Love Story of Florence and Guy Weadick and the Beginning of the Calgary Stampede

Name: First Stampede of Flores Ladue The True Love Story of Florence and Guy Weadick and the Beginning of the Calgary Stampede
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ISBN: 9781451609332

ISBN-10: 1451609337

ISBN-13: 9781451609332

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Authors: Wendy Bryden

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The true story of the romance that started the Calgary Stampede, the greatest outdoor show on Earth.Alberta at the end of the nineteenth century was wild, cruel, impossibly beautiful, romantic, and exactly the place for two rebels like trick roper Flores LaDue and rodeo promoter Guy Weadick to fall hopelessly in love. Flores LaDue grew up in Minnesota, listening to adventure tales about cowboys, traders, prospectors, and Wild West vaudeville. In secret, she learned to ride and rope from Sioux friends on the local reservation. At sixteen, she threw off the shackles of societal expectations for women and ran away to join the circus. Guy Weadick, too, was enthralled from a young age by the…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Prologue



Whisky and Wolfers-The Belle Epoque in Western Canada


Realizing the Romance-The Calgary Stampede Is Born



Real Partners


At the Calgary Stampede, 1950


Seeking Redemption


Winding Down



A Gift for Lenore


Y Cross Ranch, West of Longview, Alberta, August 1952



The Birth of Flores LaDue


Montevideo, Minnesota, 1891-1898



Raping Her Way to Jame, 1898-1904



An Irresistible Force Meets an Unimpressible Object


Guy Presumes



The Wedding Ring


A Couple of Runaways Meet


The Runaways Fall in Love



A Seed Is Planted


The 1908 Dominion Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta



Fair Weather and Funds



Travels on the Continent



The Seed Germinates



George Lane Appears on the Scene



New Hybrids



George Lane Circles the Wagons



The First Calgary Exhibition and Stampede 1912: A Star Is Born


The Ladies Take the Stage



The Big Four Would Approve


Epilogue


Acknowledgements


2005 Alberta Gentennial


Bibliography