Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born ldquo;in the wrong place; to the wrong woman; at the wrong time.rdquo; Born in 1925 and growing up in New York society with a mother who was never satisfied with her rather lanky; unpolished daughter; teenager Louise eventually found happiness when she spent a summer on a Wyoming dude ranch scrubbing toilets; waiting tables and wrangling cattle. Later in life; she settled in Tucson; Arizona; where her introduction to photographing rodeos came about after a friend invited her to watch his children participate in a junior rodeo competition. Using a cheap drug-store camera; Louise began photographing youngsters as they bounced and bucked on small sheep and calves; then sold the pictures to proud parents; beginning a career that would span fifty years and take her to the highest pinnacles of rodeo photography. This biography of the legendary rodeo photographer Louise Sherpa; reveals the story of a woman who made her own way in a manrsquo;s world and who helped shaped the character of rodeo. Interviews with her contemporaries and family and photographs from her family archives add flavor to this lively portrait of a remarkable Western woman.
2015-08-01 2015-08-01File Name: B014SMRC7Y
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