Maxwell Faubion, 2022 Wounded Knee District Bullriding, Manderson, SD #HifromSD

Cole Reddy, 2017 Red Scaffold Rodeo, Red Scaffold, SD

CJ Jewett, 2023 Owl Bonnet Rough Stock Shootout, St. Francis, SD #Fridayphoto #HifromSD

Ranch bronc ride, 2025 Chase Yellowhawk Memorial Chute Out, Kilgore, NE

Finally.

For the past 15 years, as the country has frayed at its patriotic seams, the photographer Jeremiah Murphy spent hours capturing the beauty of a deeply American sport: rodeo. See more of his photographs: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PvHkwX

The Guts and Glory of “Indian Rodeo” For more than a decade, Jeremiah Murphy has been trying to capture the beauty of a deeply American sport.

Baseball is America’s pastime and football America’s sport, but rodeo may as well be America itself: raw courage along with pure idiocy, a never-ending tug of war between myth and reality, Casey Cep writes.

Guns don't avoid critical thinking by leaning on tired aphorisms. People do.

Bull's eye, Tristen B. Janis, 2016 Pine Ridge Village Rodeo, Pine Ridge, SD #HifromSD

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Now more than ever ICE agents need to go masks down, badges/IDs up.

Derik West, Big River's Bronc Fiesta, Bad Ouda Hell Ranch, Pine Ridge, SD #HifromSD #rodeo

Nope, 2022 Pine Ridge Village Rodeo, Pine Ridge, SD #Fridayphoto #HifromSD

‘East of Wall’ Review: A Grieving Mother and Daughter Find Peace in the Badlands Kate Beecroft makes a stunning feature debut with 'East of Wall,' a docu-fiction of today's American West. Read our review.

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Remembering Dick Kneip this morning, the 92nd anniversary of his birthday. Dick was a good man and a good governor. As George Cunningham said, ″He pulled state government, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Instead of just bringing in political hacks, he brought in professionalism.″

Ring in the new, sweep out the old. Here’s hoping that’s a good trade.

"May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude” Leonard Cohen

Photo: JFK Airport (Caddy and Christmas Star), 1968 by Joel Meyerowitz

Happy #WorldBasketballDay, 2015 Crow Fair, Crow Agency, MT #bw #blackandwhite #photography

Barrel racer, mom, 2023 Rosebud Fair & Rodeo, Rosebud, SD #HifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo

Happy #nationaldayofthehorse to all who observe.

"Got him right where I want him!", wild horse race, 2016 Rosebud Fair & Rodeo, Rosebud, SD #HifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo

DOGE is two kids in a trench coat pretending to be an adult.

Happy birthday Tom Waits! BOTD in 1949 in Pomona, CA. Pictured here singing with Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs in 1982 at Club Lingerie, Hollywood, CA. #TomWaits
#blackandwhite #b&w #photography

Bull ride, 2024 Oglala Lakota Nation Rodeo, Pine Ridge, SD
#hifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo

Trouble, 2023 Owl Bonnet Rough Stock Shootout, St. Francis, SD #hifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo

Coming in hot, 2017 Lester Waters Memorial Bronc Bustin' Show, Pine Ridge, SD #hifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo

Bull ride, 2021 Interior Frontier Days Rodeo, Interior, SD
#hifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo

Tatanka Trading Post, Scenic, SD July 4th, 2014 #hifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography

Thank you!

Wild horse race, 2022 Rosebud Fair & Rodeo, Rosebud, SD #hifromSD #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #rodeo