Horsin’ Around Once, when Maddie Ferguson was riding her horse at a rodeo in Bowie, she overheard a young girl exclaim to her mom, “Oh my gosh, she’s a real cowgirl!” The 1 ...

When doing research for “The Original Cowboys” (Page 58), writer Katie Gutierrez realized she had never learned the histories of real-life vaqueros, despite having grown up in ...

Andy Hedges The songster, reciter, storyteller, and collector of cowboy songs and poems wrote about the cowboy poetry tradition for “From Hide and Horn” (Page 82). Hedges grew ...

TH: The above is excerpted from a poem Haines wrote to George Getschow, thanking him for his August story on the town. Down by the River Great article on Leakey [“My Hometown,” ...

While taking photographs this summer for “Fight or Flight” (Page 46), Dave Shafer visited the Jim Bowie Days Rodeo and Celebration in Bowie, between Wichita Falls and Fort Wort ...

Jared Session is a man of the land—specifically, the Rolling Plains of the southeastern Texas Panhandle. Born and raised in Childress, Jared left only long enough to earn a degre ...

I was at work in Dallas when I got the call that my son had been accepted in the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo’s mutton busting competition. I almost dropped my phone on my des ...

If you want to feel like Texas royalty, get fitted for custom boots at M.L. Leddy’s. Like a king or queen on a throne, you kick back in an engraved leather chair in the back of t ...

"One of the most interesting events to attend in Texas!"-The New York Times Campfires, Chili con Carne, and the Words of J. Frank Dobie Honoring Live Oak County’s most famous son ...

M.L. Leddy’s custom boots start at about $1,400 for a pair of calfskin boots (best for riding and ranching), and customers can expect a one-year wait. A pair of shiny full-quill ...