I recently attended a family reunion with my maternal grandfather’s family. As a little background, my maternal great-grandfather and great-grandmother immigrated from Europe and settled in New Jersey where they raised seven sons and daughters. My grandfather, one of them, volunteered for the Air Force during World War ...
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The Working Ranch Cowboys Association and Hughes Trailers, Inc. have entered into a partnership agreement to make Hughes the official trailer of WRCA.
Hughes
Trailers, located in Canyon, Texas, will be a sponsor of the WRCA World
Championship Ranch Rodeo (WCRR) to be held November 7–10, 2019, in Amarillo,
Texas. As ...
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The Working Ranch Cowboy’s Association will work in cooperation with Premier Equine Auctions to hold an invitational ranch gelding sale at the WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo.
The sale will be held on Saturday, November 9, from 1 – 3 p.m. in the Amarillo Civic Center Coliseum during the 2019 WRCA World Champio...
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The Working Ranch Cowboy’s Association and film directors Bud Force and John Langmore are proud to announce a special screening of their film “Cowboys: A Documentary Portrait” will be held at the WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo.
The film will be shown on Saturday, November 9 from 3 – 5 p.m. in the Globe News ...
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Standing, elbows resting on the corral fence, I looked at my pen of horses. Through their movements and my memories, their personalities all began to emerge. I thought of how this one was an exceptional athlete but didn’t have as much confidence as that one. I thought about how another one loved to run to and rope a cow ...
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Part of the Working Ranch Cowboys Association’s mission statement is to “preserve the lifestyle of the working ranch cowboy.”
This idea of preservation of heritage seems to be more and more divisive with each passing day in our present culture. A high school in San Francisco recently made headlines for considera...
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Recently, I spent a couple of days with the cowboy photographer and artist, Peter Robbins, as he was working on a photo shoot for a clothing company. Watching him—or any artist work—is endlessly fascinating to me. The places and ways these people find beauty and motivation is a glimpse into the diversity of humanity.
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