Posted
on July 26, 2014
Today in the U.S.A., it's the tenth annual National Day of the Cowboy.
It's
a day all about preserving “pioneer heritage and cowboy culture.”
Local
celebrations vary, of course. Whether it's a parade on horseback down
Main Street or a covered wagon trip, a chuck wagon meal or an ice
cream social, a historic gun show or horseshoeing demonstrations,
choosing a local Cowboy and Cowgirl or holding an Art Spur Writing
Contest (in which a piece of Western art “spurs” the
writing)...there are a ton of things communities do listed here...
There
is a celebration very near me, in Norco, CA, that will include:
- a cowboy obstacle course (the obstacle course portion of the video runs from 45 second mark to the 3:55 minute mark),
- ribbon races,
- sled races,
- celebrity cow chip contests,
- children's dummy roping (on this video, the contest starts at 3:10),
- equestrian drill teams,
- wagon races,
- sorting,
- and a bull riders' rodeo.
- Plus – of course! – food vendors.
Man,
I do not know what some of these events are, even! You know what cow
chips are, right? It seems icky enough that many festivals and rodeos
feature cow chip throwing contests, but what is a celebrity cow chip
contest? Do participants try to create celebrity sculptures using cow
chips? Or do celebrities compete with throwing the cow chips?
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