On September 17, the Working Ranch Cowboys Association announced that the World Championship Ranch Rodeo would still happen—with some tweaks to meet the state’s social distancing and capacity restrictions.
First, it’s necessary to give credit to the WRCA staff and board who worked tirelessly through myriad ...
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A big brimmed hat, tall-topped boots, long sleeve shirt, denim britches, and spurs jingling: the cowboy get-up is pretty simple. But within those few parameters lies multitudes.
To the uninitiated, those basic duds only mean one thing: a
cowboy. Line up a buckaroo from Nevada, a puncher from Texas, an Arizona hand,
a ...
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Here are the official results for the 2020 Jackie Perkins Memorial Ranch Rodeo! Congratulations and a job well done to everyone who entered up!
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Perhaps the purpose of ranching should be the No. 1 reason
to be a cowboy. I think the reason it’s not ranked higher is as cowboys and
ranchers we’re so separated from the ultimate consumer of our products that we
lose sight of our job’s significance. Now, that doesn’t diminish its
importance, but perhaps it does ...
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Here are the official results for the 2020 Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo! Congratulations and a job well done to everyone who entered up!
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Watching any WRCA rodeo, a spectator has the chance to see exceptional roping. In the stray gathering, for instance, when a top hand on his best horse falls in behind a fresh yearling steer, takes two swings, throws his loop around the steer’s neck—the tip curling enough to slap the critter’s hip—and pulls the ...
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A Top 25 list is, by design, set up to ignore the negative aspects of the subject being ranked. However, we’re shaking things up and presenting the challenges of cowboy life as the 10th best reason to live this life.
I’ll certainly not address every challenge cowboys and
ranchers face. But here’s a quick look at ...
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