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, sport including a series of riding and roping contests originated from the working skills of the American cowboy as developed throughout the 2nd half of the 19th century to support the open-range livestock industry in The United States and Canada. Although its development as a sport took place mainly in northern Mexico, the United States, and western Canada, rodeo's popularity is international.

The charreada of Mexico is a similar competitors that developed from the haciendas of colonial Mexico; its rodeo-like occasions are typically not timed however judged in terms of creative benefit. Trevor Brazile completing in the tie-down roping event at the National Finals Rodeo, Las Vegas, 2010. Eric Jamison/AP Rodeos (from the Spanish rodear, "to encircle") grew out of the work and play of 19th-century American cowboys and their Spanish-Mexican antecedents.

As the cowboys' profession was reduced in scope by the railways and by the fences that marked completion of the Open Variety era, the contests ended up being routine formal programs of home entertainment. Many places declare the difference of being the very first location to hold a rodeo in the United Statesamong them Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1872 and Winfield, Kansas, in 1882but such early contests were merely exhibitions of riding and roping skills and not the highly organized programs that modern-day rodeo became.

Prescott, Arizona Territory, held the very first yearly rodeo on July 4, 1888. Organized by a town committee, it consisted of public advertising, admission charges, and championship prizes, establishing the place as a true competitive spectator sport. Prescott was followed by major annual rodeo places such as Cheyenne Frontier Days (1897 ), the Pendleton (Oregon) Round-Up (1910 ), and the Calgary Stampede (1912 ).

It was among the most egalitarian of American sports in the early 20th century, often including Hispanic, African American, Native American, and female candidates in an era when race and gender discrimination were commonplace. For instance, Mexican trick- and fancy-roper Vicente Oropeza and renowned black bronc-rider and steer-wrestler Expense Pickett won acclaim in the arena, as did Native American bronc-riders Tom 3 Persons and Jackson Sundown.