Perhaps the best known photo of a is the 1915 image of Bonnie McCarroll by rodeo photographer Ralph Doubleday.
Bonnie is shown upside down, ringlet curls flying as her head nears the hard packed grass of Oregon’s Pendleton Round-Up arena for a landing that looks as if it could be a serious one. The bronc, a bay called Silver, is high in the air, shown mid-buck, ragged hooves flying.
A remarkable feature of the photo is the presence of a rope hobble, tied to the left stirrup of Bonnie
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