The official numbers won’t be tabulated for several weeks, but many merchants who rented booths at the cowboy merchandise marts staged in conjunction with the recently ended National Finals Rodeo have already concluded it was a tepid year.
Rodeo
At Thomas & Mack Center
Cody Wright took advantage of drawing the best bucking horse of the year to pull away in the closest world championship race of the National Finals Rodeo.
J.W. Harris’ smartest move over the past two weeks was to drive his pickup truck to Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo.
It’s do or die tonight in the last of 10 go-rounds of the National Finals Rodeo.
Almost every world championship race in the 10-day National Finals Rodeo is too close to call after Thursday’s eighth go-round.
Bull rider Tyler Smith didn’t enjoy the first six nights of the National Finals Rodeo, when he was bucked off five times and failed to earn a check the only time he completed an eight-second ride.
The four essential elements necessary to sustain a western-themed life, according to a browsing of the Cowboy Christmas Gift Show in town this week as part of the big rodeo shindig, are as follows: driftwood, turquoise, leather and antlers. Among these, leather is king.
