Day: June 1, 2012

June Wallpaper 2012

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My Point of View June 2012

Everyone seems to be celebrating an anniversary and of course the big celebration in Alberta this summer will be the 100th Anniversary of the first Calgary Stampede. I’m proud to

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June/July 2012

Biggest Little Rodeo in the West Wins! Congratulations to the Reno Rodeo & Ag Society in tiny Consul, Sask., on winning the Event of the Year (budget under $20,000) for

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You Can’t Make a Horse Buck

The Risky Business of Raising Broncs Some folks might take for granted the high-kicking broncs of the rodeo arena, but not the cowboys, the rodeo committees and certainly not the

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Clem Gardner

Honoured Cowboy As the Calgary Stampede embarks on its Centennial celebration, the names and ghosts from Stampede’s past begin to resurface. As Quaker writer William Pollard once described, “It is the

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City Cowboy

My nephew from the city spent the summer on the ranch He’d yearned to be a cowboy, and thought this’d be his chance He stayed out in the bunkhouse, that’s

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J Parson / Gary S. Pratt

The Eyes of a Cowboy J Parson As I write this, J Parson is entertaining some of the best-known horsemen in the world at the first-ever Horseman’s Reunion in Paso

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