Saddle up to celebrate the spirit of the Old West on July 26 for National Day of the Cowboy, a tribute to the men and women who blazed trails across Texas. What better place to celebrate than at the true epicenter of Western culture and history, the Fort Worth Stockyards? <\/p>\n
Embrace the cowboy way of life at the Stockyards, where there will be family-friendly events in honor of the day. <\/p>\n
The fun begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning with free activities, including a fiddle showcase, cow milking contests, roll-o-roping, live music, cowboy poetry, the Legends of Texas Old West comedy gun fight shows, Riscky\u2019s BBQ Rib Eating Contest, face painting and armadillo races. <\/p>\n
A highlight is the Cowboy Celebration Parade, which takes place at 11:30 a.m. on Exchange Avenue. Watch cattle and cowboys mosey down the street while showing off their belt buckles and boots.<\/p>\n
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In the afternoon, a matinee rodeo at 1:30 p.m. and another rodeo at 7:30 p.m. will showcase real-life cowboys competing in the Stockyards Championship Rodeo. Competitors will compete in timed events like tie-down roping, breakaway roping, team roping, barrel racing, bull riding and bronco riding. <\/p>\n
Details<\/a>: July 26 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Fort Worth Stockyards, 131 E Exchange Ave., Fort Worth. Prices vary depending on activity.<\/p>\n Here are three more ways to celebrate National Day of the Cowboy in Fort Worth. Also, make sure to check out the Go See DFW calendar<\/a> as new events are often added.<\/p>\n The Go See DFW calendar is a partnership between KERA and The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n Arts Access is an arts journalism collaboration powered by The Dallas Morning News and KERA.<\/p>\n This community-funded journalism initiative is funded by the Better Together Fund, Carol & Don Glendenning, City of Dallas OAC, Communities Foundation of Texas, The University of Texas at Dallas, The Dallas Foundation, Eugene McDermott Foundation, James & Gayle Halperin Foundation, Jennifer & Peter Altabef and The Meadows Foundation. The News and KERA retain full editorial control of Arts Access\u2019 journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saddle up to celebrate the spirit of the Old West on July 26 for National Day of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7711,7712,7371,7372,7710,7709,358,1072,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-45813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arts-access","10":"tag-dallas-fortworth","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-fun-places-and-events","14":"tag-holidays","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-things-to-do","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114811652310186897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n