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Title: The Rangeland Derby
Subtitle: 100 Years of Chuckwagon Racing
at the Calgary Stampede
Author: Glen Mikkelsen
Paperback • 6″ x 9″ • 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1-77311-013-4
e-PUB ISBN: 978-1-77311-014-1
Retail List Price: $29.95
BISAC CODE: SPO065000
BISAC CATEGORY: SPORTS &
RECREATION / Animal Sports / Rodeos
The Rangeland Derby
100 Years of Chuckwagon Racing at the Calgary Stampede
Glen Mikkelsen

Tighten Your Lines and Hang On!
It’s Canada’s greatest race!
The Calgary Stampede is the Super Bowl of chuckwagon racing.Nowhere else in the world are these races held on the same scale or grandeur as in Calgary.

For 10 decades, drivers and outriders with their horses and wagons have roared around Calgary’s racetrack. It is an incomparable contest that gallops into the lives, stories and true tall tales of the men and women in a community that has no equal.

Working, playing and laughing, the involvement of entire families is rare in any pro sport, but it has always been a facet of chuckwagon racing. Many families trace their involvement in decades or generations. As in a chuckwagon stew, where simple ingredients combine into something extraordinary, stir together horses, cowboys and daring, and you have a recipe for a spectacle like no other!

He tells it like it is! For those of us and those before us who
poured their heart and soul, blood, sweat and tears into this
amazing lifestyle and our horses, we salute you Glen. Well done!
– Les McIntyre
Voice of the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby and the WPCA

Glen Mikkelsen
Glen Mikkelsen has a unique perspective on the Calgary Stampede’s Rangeland Derby’s national and international importance. He has attended events around the globe and, since growing up in Calgary, he has lived across Canada, including Toronto,Vancouver, and presently Prince George, giving him a broad-ranging perspective on chuckwagon racing. Mikkelsen holds a degree in Canadian Studies and has spent 35 years in the events and entertainment industry. In 2019, he was inducted into the Event Arena Marketing Conference’s Hall of Fame, the only Canadian inductee in its 40-year history. Mikkelsen’s writing has been featured in numerous national and international magazines, such as Canadian Cowboy Country, True West and Western Horseman. He is the author of Never Holler Whoa: The Cowboys of Chuckwagon Racing; Checkered Courage, Chuckwagon Racing’s Glass Family; and a contributing writer to Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede

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