who invented professional rodeo
The professional rodeo when cowboys (and Indians) did wild west event for hire and prizes was invented by...Buffalo Bill Cody. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was the first professional rodeo. It features Annie Oakley and...Sitting Bull who became a friend of Buffalo Bill (a man who had previously slaughter thousands of bison for the entertainment of silly Eastern city slickers..from a train). However, long before that the vaqueros in Mexico tested their skills on horsemanship against one another.
