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• How The Cowboy Turtle Associate Began

• History of the Rodeo Clown Reunion

• What If??...Rodeo Had Been Reported On Sports Pages For The Last 100 Years??

• Reply to  5th Graders, Laingsburg, MI: When was the 1st rodeo?

• Colonel Jim Eskew & the Jr Rodeo

• Mabel Strickland, Always A Lady, Always A Cowgirl

• Historic Rodeo Producers

• Harry Tompkins Story

• Bart Clennon - Last of the signers of the Cowboy Turtle Petition

• HAWAII MEANS R & R - RODEO & RANCHING!!
  The Rodeo Clown Reunion ended, I returned home, packed my bags and headed west. Yep, really west, the ‘Big Island’ of Hawai’i. My running buddies, Imogene Beals and Donna Clark joined me and after a long flight we arrived at the airport in Hilo. We rented a car and headed to our ‘cabin’ across the island. The road was winding and we hugged the Pacific Ocean on our right as we drove through lush green foliage and trees of a kind we don’t have back in Texas. A waterfall would appear amid the greenery here and there. The drive was beautiful. No freeways here, it was just a narrow two lane highway and occasionally we would drive through a village. We were enjoying it immensely. Then it got dark.
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• Cowgirl Hall Invites Five Into Their Fold For 2008 
  The induction ceremony for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame is always a fun time. It is held in one of the huge ball rooms of the Will Rogers Coliseum and Complex within walking distance of the Hall. The Cowgirl Who's Who plus so many 'movers and shakers' in the western world.
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• Aftermath - Rodeo Clown Reunion
  The Rodeo Clown Reunion was a huge success in Dodge City , Kansas .  The Dodge City Days Rodeo Committee and so many more sponsors made our stay there so enjoyable and memorable.  The honorees dressed in their familiar costumes of the past and donned their individual ‘clown faces’ to entertain the fans all over Dodge City, including autographing before each of the five rodeo performances and helping with the Youthville Rodeo for Exceptional Children, the Mutton Bustin’, the Boot Scramble and tossing T-shirts to the fans.
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• Rodeo Clown Reunion Dodge City Days July 30th Through August 3rd
  What it the true measure of the rodeo clown? If you are anywhere near Dodge City, Kansas, from July 30th through August 3rd, come to the Dodge City Days celebration and PRCA rodeo and see for yourself. There are forty retired rodeo clowns arriving to sign autographs and entertain the fans from every direction – Montana, South and North Dakota, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, Louisiana, Arkansas, Colorado, Michigan and Missouri. They will don their familiar make-up and big baggy britches and get laughs where ever they happen to be.
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• The Life Of Clem McSpadden A Rodeo Renaissance
  People with wisdom and the willingness to serve don’t happen to come around often. And when they do they usually have a chosen field in which they give until they can’t give any more. Fortunately, Clem McSpadden chose rodeo as his field of expertise. Or maybe rodeo chose Clem. No matter. It was a beautiful match and for just eighteen years short of a century Clem and rodeo went through life as one.
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• A Cowboy That Can Outrun The Energizer Bunny
  The Energizer Bunny that beats his drum across our television screens and the Timex Watch ad from the past that boasted after the watch had been dunked in water and run over by a truck “And it keeps on ticking!” have nothing on Hub Hubbell. He’ll be ninety years ‘young’ later this year and he is still making cowboy history.

• Texas Hall of Fame Inductees-
  The Fort Worth Stockyards were lit up as five hundred ‘movers and shakers’ in the world of the cowboy and cowgirl came to witness five new recipients being welcomed in to the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame on January 10th.  Pam Minick, Mistress of Ceremonies, introduced each honoree and a video was shown of their respective lives.

• Is Rodeo Striving For Excellence Or Going To The Dogs? - Anyone who is a fan or member of rodeo hears all kinds of rumors and criticism of what it happening in the professional rodeo world today.  Some will say change will kill rodeo, some will say it needs to change, and others won’t have a clue.  So what is different in the world of rodeo in the present time that has been there since the beginning?

• Cowboys, Today and Yesterday, Here and Elsewhere  -  When rodeo burst forth in the late 1800s and early 1900s the cowboy had a new opportunity that was previously unavailable...

• Back On the Road Again - Traveling to California for interviews for the Oral History Project of the Rodeo Historical Society and then back to Texas for the National Cowboy Symposium,and Celebration

• On the Road Again - August 2007 = American Quarter Horse Museum; ProRodeo Hall of Fame & Museum; Cheyenne Frontier Days; Dodge City ( Kansas ) Days

• Rodeo Historical Society Holds Broncs & Birdies Fund Raiser - May 07 Rodeo and golf go together for fun and charity/

• On The Road Again - April 07 Tesxas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame; The Wild West Arts Club; and   Western Heritage Awards at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

• Cowgirls Don't Just Happen They Earn The Title - Claire Belcher Thompson story

• Rodeo Clown Reunion Right Around the Corner

• Grover, CO, A Grass Roots Rodeo For 83 Years

• A Tribute to Junior Meek

• A Cowgirl of the Rodeo, Movies, & The Sea - Polly Burson

• Congratulations to the new class of Honorees in the 30^th annual Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame -DON GRAHAM, DAVE HOPPER, SANDY KIRBY, RANDY MAGERS, PHIL LYNE, JACK WARD, DONNA FAYE HANKS, BLANCHE ALTIZER SMITH, CLYDE H. MARTIN, CECIL VICK. BURR ANDREWS, NEAL & KAY GAY, J. G. CROUCH, SKIPPER VOSS, KILLEEN ROEO COMMITTEE. DEAN SMITH

• Wyoming Cattle Group Chooses First Woman President - Lois Herbst

• Dublin Rodeo Museum

• October 05 -Congratulations to Justin McBride plus other great bullriders.

• September 05 - Goin' Down the Road

• August 05 - It's Not The Size, It's The Enthusiasm!!

• June 05 - The Voice of Rodeo for Over Fifty Years

• May 05 - ProRodeo Hall of Fame has re-opened

• March 05 - Kajun Kidd, Rodeo Clown

• January 05 - Contract acts missing today and  Gene McLaughlin story.

• December 04 - Recap of year and questions asked

• November 04 - Various Hall of Fames inaugurations

• September 04 Summer report

• July 04 Rodeo week in Big Spring, Texas

• March 04 “It Ain't What It Used To Be"

• February 04 Introducing our Western Heritage to a foreign visitor

• January 04 NFR Report and Yearly Update

• December 03 New Hall of Fame Project and Inductees

• November 03 National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration

• October 03 Connie Douglas Reeves

• August 03  A trip down rodeo road for the summer

• July 03  Funds help bullfighters and clowns

• April 03 War and rodeo today and in the past and more

• 3-20-03  Wild West Arts Club Convention 

• 2-20-03  Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame induction

• 1-21-03  Riata Ranch Cowboy Cowgirls and more

• 12-18-02 NFR Update

• 11-15-02  National Cowgirl Hall of Fame induction

• 11-6-02  ProRodeo Sports News for fifty years of continuous coverage of professional rodeo

• 10-21-02  Cheyenne Frontier Days inducted the very first people in to their Hall of Fame

• 10-01-02  Happenings of yesterdays heros

• Rodeo Historical  Society  Inducts  Honorees - Ace Berry, Willard Combs, Don Mayo, Jim Shoulders, Jimmy Schumacher, Benny Comb, Sherry Price Combs, Tom Nesmith, Buck Lucas.  Bonnie McCarroll. Pat Scudder. Clyde Miller, and Don Bell

• Pendleton Round-Up, Tradition at it's Best

• Deadwood Days of '76 - 2002

• Cowgirls create a new home - National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, TX; Sandra Day O'Connor

• Cowboy Walk of Fame honors Bullfighter Jimmy Anderson