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This
column has been developed to keep you current on
various activities that are happening across the
country, involving cowboys and girls, outside the
arena. It is also designed to keep you informed about
your friends in and around rodeo.
HAPPENINGS
WITH YESTERDAY’S HEROES:
October
19th and 20th
the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in
Oklahoma City will be inducting the following people
as 2002 honorees; Living honorees: Jimmy Schumacher,
Don Mayo, Ace Berry & Willard Combs. Deceased
honorees: Benny Combs, Pat Scudder, Buck Lucas, Bonnie
McCarroll & Clyde Miller. The Tad Lucas award goes
to Louise Serpa, rodeo photographer, and the Ben
Johnson award honor goes to Don Harrington. Accolades
to all these deserving cowboys & cowgirls! For
event reservations call: 405-478-2250 x3410.
The
Annual Cowboy Reunion, at the Excalibur Hotel, Las
Vegas, December 12, 13 & 14th, is open to anyone
interested in rodeo, you do not have to have been in
rodeo to attend. Call 806-669-7708 for information.
Special room rates at Excalibur are available, please
mention the group code “XCOWBOY” to receive this
rate at:1-800-937-7777.
Beware
Terrorists! Hub Hubbell, of Sarasota, Florida, rodeo
announcer and performer for many years, was relieved
of his six-shooter tie tack when boarding a commercial
airline recently. Although it was only about two &
a half inches long the airport security considered it
a ‘weapon’. This security agent was not going to
let anything by!
Howard
Harris, of Claremore, Oklahoma, former owner of family
operated Cowtown, New Jersey, attended the annual
Miles City, Montana, Bucking Horse Sale for the 50th
year in a row. The Sale has been in existence since
1913.
Congratulations
to the 2002 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
inductees, to be honored in Fort Worth on November
15th; Polly Burson, Kathy Daughn, Arlene Kensinger,
Anne Burnette Tandy and Justice Sandra Day O’Conner.
For information regarding the induction, call
817-336-4475.
The
9th Annual Old Timers Fall RoundUp was held October
5th at the final performance of the Mesquite
Championship Rodeo. A large crowd was there including
Jim and Sharon Shoulders from Oklahoma, Bob Ed
Peavyhouse from Fort Smith, Arkansas, Dale and Paula
Wickizer from Arizona, Melvin and Judie Fields from
Kansas, and lots of cowboys and cowgirls from near and
far. James, long-time public address announcer at the
Mesquite Championship Rodeo, & wife, Linda
Jennings, were signing their newly published book
TOURING TEXAS TOWNS . . and some that ain’t. It
tells tales of traveling the backroads of Texas -
135,000 miles and smiles.
Byron
“Cowboy” Wolford also has a book out that is
considered a ‘great read’ by those who rode down
the ‘rodeo road’. COWBOYS, GAMBLERS &
HUSTLERS, The True Adventures of a Rodeo Champion
& Poker Player is full of stories and experiences
Wolford had while rodeoing, including winning the calf
roping title at Calgary, He also relates adventures in
gambling casinos, including the most famous bluff ever
pulled off in The World Series of Poker. |
