How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dressing Like a Cowgirl
Before Beth Dutton and Beyoncé, “rodeo wear” was just a style I had been taught all my life to avoid.
Before Beth Dutton and Beyoncé, “rodeo wear” was just a style I had been taught all my life to avoid.
As ropers and riders come through town in the spring to compete, a stop at Western Sky Steakhouse is a must. For me, a San Angelo native, it’s simply a taste of home.
An investigation into Big D's lack of a big, dusty to-do.
A mix of traditional and more . . . avant-garde . . . cowboys turned out for H-Town’s biggest Western event of the year.
Q: A lifelong dream of mine was to go ranching and horseback riding in the U.S., and finally last year my best friend, Maxinne, and I visited Nashville, Memphis, and New Orleans and had the time of our lives, so in February we’re doing it again. This time, Texas: horses, country
There is nothing quite like the world of professional bull riding (PBR). For both the riders and onlooking fans, PBR offers the most intense and exciting eight seconds in sports. PBR Teams events offers PBR fans new and old the comradery of cheering on their favorite team as riders fight
The li’l guy went missing a week ago. Whoever finds him is going to be rich (in barbecue, gift cards, and pie).
A writer looks back on his 2018 cover story on Myrtis Dightman Sr., “the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” who broke the sport’s color line.
The Hall of Fame bull rider is the subject of an upcoming documentary and a Hollywood biopic—but if you ask him he’s “just a cowboy.”
Karnack’s “Queen of Sequins” brought style, success, and unprecedented longevity to her legendary rodeo career.
Wallace wrote about the life and times of Myrtis Dightman, a rodeo star who should've been champ.
Five decades ago, Myrtis Dightman broke the color barrier in professional rodeo and became one of the best bull riders who ever lived. But his imprint on the sport was only just beginning.
The story behind rodeo star Tad Lucas’s little red riding boots.
Our estimable advice columnist on bad barbecue vs. no barbecue, rodeo bullfighting, and dogs at bars.
Kansas stakes a claim to the "World's Original Indoor Rodeo" title, a crown Fort Worth has worn since 1918.
Ty Murray is the last pure American cowboy, a throwback to the mythic West. And if you visit him on his Stephenville ranch, you’d better be ready to ride.
Hot hurdling in Giddings, super six-man football in Gordon: Ten towns that got game.
When a rare white buffalo was born in North Texas, thousands came to celebrate the new age he heralded. A year later the animal was dead.
Animal cruelty, greasy handshakes, offerings of meat, and Texas toasts—the spoken kind.
HistoryAs with most rodeo events, pinpointing barrel racing’s exact origin is near impossible. “It probably started out as pretty women on fast horses, but now it’s a competitive sport for serious athletes,” says Martha Josey, a world-champion barrel racer, Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Famer, and co-owner of Josey Ranch,
For teenage girls in the Hill Country town of Llano, life can be short on glamour and excitement—except at the annual rodeo, when one of them gets a rhinestone tiara and a rare, thrilling moment of glory.
What was Bill Pickett’s nickname, and how did he wrestle steers to the ground?
Feasting our eyes on a blind team roper.
They crack wise while bulls charge them, and fans eat it up. A look at rodeo’s real ring leaders.
Tuff Hedeman was born in El Paso and raised on rodeo. Today he’s one the best bull riders in the world.
After a visit abroad in 1987, Sean Earley transformed his art. He returned steeped in Italy’s ubiquitous religious imagery, eager to paint the icons of his home state’s country and western myths (see “Earley Texas,” TM, December 1990). In this memorial scene, the Rodeo Queen presides over ascending contestants. Set
Rodeo, rodeo, wherefore art thou rodeo? Mary Ellen Mark went to small towns all over Texas to find out.
One man’s quest to clear the reputation of an animal maligned.
For team ropers on the All-Girl circuit, the true reward is the happiness of pursuit.
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.
In today‘s tame, tame West, the cowboy seldom rides a horse and never carries a gun, but the cattle business is bigger than ever.
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.