In the early nineteenth century, several Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) were sent to the islands to teach Hawaiians how to ride horses and maintain the cattle. Roping cattle and riding horses seem ...

Back home on the Big Island, Ikua Purdy, Jack Low and Archie Ka‘au‘a had established their reputations as three of the best cowboys in Hawaii, known as much for their work on commercial cattle ranches ...

Masterful calf roping depends mainly on teamwork bet ween a cowboy and his horse ... a roper crosses a start line and enters a herd of cattle. He ropes a calf and moves it across the line where ...

Corbin Bunn celebrates his winning run in the junior bull riding event of the Cowboys Color Rodeo on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, ...