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Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo necklace art scholars and educatorsConvict Cowboys is the first book on the nations first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the prison system, and convict leasing, as well as important figures in Texas penology including Marshall Lee Simmons, O. B. Ellis, and George J. Beto, and the