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Category: Rodeo

  • Rodeos – they start ’em young!

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    During the last month, I’ve had the pleasure of attending two rodeos – both of which involved young people. One was the California High School Rodeo Championships in Bishop and the other was Fish Lake Valley Rodeo in Nevada. The two rodeos were decidedly different. Fish Lake Valley is a sparsely populated desert valley on…

  • Cowboys

    Cowboys

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    Branding time for calves. The day is bright and sunny, hot but not too hot, dusty, lots and lots of mamas mooing and calves mooing because they are separated from mama. Approximately 250 calves are being branded today and earlier in the day were rounded up by the cowboys and put into corrals. The horses were calmly resting…

  • Mule Days!

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    Bishop, California is the mule capital of the world. In celebration of the many mules that worked opening up the west, a gathering of mules and people who love them takes place every Memorial Day weekend. Many days in advance of the Tuesday opening, the Tri-County Fairgrounds fill up with RV’s and horse trailers from…