Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary StampedeMaxwell Foran, Max Foran This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1912, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience – from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and a component of the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole. |
Contents
The Calgary Stampede 19121939 | 21 |
The Indians and the Stampede | 47 |
Calgarys Parading Culture Before 1912 | 73 |
Carnivals at the | 111 |
The Calgary Stampede | 147 |
ATenderfoots Guide to the | 203 |
The Halfa Mile ofHeavens Gate | 235 |
The Stampede and Calgarys | 251 |
Western Art and the | 271 |
Contributors | 348 |
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