stunning Palomino, is the Wolfe City Rodeo Queen of 1996, Jessica Johnson.
The grand entry begins and the rodeo stories continue, echoing endlessly into the night – a good ride in the saddle bronc, a wipeout in junior steer riding, a missed calf in the breakaway roping. Scenes like these play out at rodeos all across America now. No longer just a fixture of the west, professional rodeo can be found all over the world.
Organizations like those sanctioning Wolfe City’ s rodeo – the UPRA, the CRRA and the CPRA – nurture young cowboys and cowgirls who dream of competing in the PRCA National Finals Rodeo one day. But this is where it starts – small town rodeos where skills are passed down from one generation to the next. It’ s the cowboy way, of courtesy and country, that makes rodeo live and continue to stay forever current and yet so unchanged through the passage of time.
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