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Happy 2011! We thought we'd kick off the newsletter with a calendar of the events you don't want to miss this year. We've added links to the full calendar for the events/tickets and will be updating regularly on the WV calendar so keep checking back for updates.

To get outfitted for all these great events, check out the fabulous Western Vault Retailers listed on the right side of this page!

This market has been in existence for 89 years and boasts being the largest trade show in the industry with over 200,000 SF of exhibit space!

Put on your walking shoes and visit our Western Vault Retailers who will be there:

• Patricia Wolf on the 3rd Floor, Showroom #3373
• Nettles Country will be in Booth #318
• Red Star Riggings - ER K48 & K49

Jan 14-Feb 5 Fort Worth Livestock Show

P.O. Box 150
Fort Worth, Texas 76101
Main Office
817-877-2400
Ticket Office
817-877-2420 (Buy Tickets)
www.fwssr.com

Jan 14-Feb 5 Fort Worth Livestock Show with their ranch rodeo Jan.14-15.  Located at Will Rogers Memorial Center, Friday & Saturday, January 14th & 15th will feature "The Best Of The West" Ranch Rodeo.  The best hands from several big ranches compete as teams and we'll be there to watch! 

Feb 3-Feb 20 San Antonio Rodeo www.sarodeo.com (Buy Tickets)


60 years running, don't miss the great line up of entertainers at the San Antonio Rodeo including  Clay Walker, Martina McBride, Kevin Fowler, Steel Magnolias....just to name a few.

Feb 18-20 Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering - Ellensburg, Washington, www.ellensburg.com

 

The Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering brings the best traditional cowboy musicians, poets, and artists together to celebrate the western tradition of ranching and cowboy life.

Feb 24 - 26 BBQ Cook Off
Feb 26 HLS&R Parade
March 1 - 20 Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
www.hlsr.com

The HLS&R set another record in 2010 with 1,264,074 in attendance!  Don't miss the biggest & the best and look for another outstanding, record setting show! 

View the complete event calendar here. The entertainer lineup will be released Monday, January 10th. 

Find TRV Member, Madole Spurs in the Sombrero Brands booth located in the Horse Barn

March 5th The Alamo 175th Anniversary Celebration www.thealamo.org


You really don't want to miss this commemorative event which will include a performance by Phil Collins, The San Antonio Symphony and via satellite, Ricky Scaggs & George Strait.  At dawn there will be a battle re-enactment of the siege and don't forget to visit the San Fernando Cathedral if you're truly a history buff. 

Mar 24-27 Dallas Western Market 2011
www.dallasmarketcenter.com


Another great not-to-be-missed shopping event.  Although not as large as the Denver Market, you can do some serious damage here.  The Dallas Market boasts 50 markets (including the Western Market) each year, Retailers for all 50 states and 78 countries source products conduct over $8 billion in annual transactions.

Saturday, April 30, 2011 Houston Cattle Baron's Ball

7:00 P.M. to Midnight @ George Ranch Historical Park
This year will take you to the Brazos River on a warm spring night, the sky full of stars, as we imagine a future free of cancer. Join us for live entertainment, dinner, dancing, gaming, exciting auctions, Midway games, pig races, and fabulous prizes.

Proceeds from this event benefit the Houston-area American Cancer Society, providing money for research, educational services, and patient support programs such as transportation for patients to life-saving treatments, the Breast Prosthesis Project, and other essential projects right here in our community.

May 6-7 21st annual reunion of Hopalong Cassidy Friends - Cambridge, Ohio
www.hopalong.com Laura Bates - 740-826-4850


Attention all you Western  Baby Boomers!  If you can't make it to Hopalong  Cassidy's annual reunion, at least check out his website for a nostalgic walk down memory lane - including dvds & videos! 

Located in the Expo Center of Taylor County, this event includes a rodeo as well as the national finals for the Ranch Horse Association of America (RHAA) and an invitational ranch hose sale plus a Chuck Wagon Cookoff. 

*June 4 - 12 Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association's  Redbud Spectacular -  www.okqha.com

The 2010 event had over 900 horses registered for the event.

*Tentative Schedule

Another walk down memory lane...who doesn't remember Roy Rogers, Trigger & Bullet??

The RFD TV Trigger & Bullet Happy Trails Tour started in Las Vegas this past December and will end January 2012 at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.  Check out the above website for a list of all the tour locations as well as sign up to become a member of the Roy Rogers Riders Club. 

Sept 8-11 National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration - Chuck Wagon Competition www.cowboy.org
For Tickets and Information:
National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration
P.O. Box 6638
Lubbock, Texas 79493
(806) 798-7825 or email cowboysymposium@suddenlink.net

The annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration is one of the modern West's most exciting explorations into the traditions of the American Frontier. Your attention will be captured by poetry, music, stories, panel discussions, exhibits and trappings by and about the American Cowboy. Highlights of the event include the American Cowboy Culture Awards Show during the Thursday evening banquet, the National Championship Chuck Wagon Cook-Off, a horse parade, over one hundred western performers, poets, scholars, and hundreds of exhibits covering every imaginable western product.

www.denver-wesa.com,
 

Denver International Western - English Apparel & Equipment Market.
www.denver-wesa.com

This market has been in existence for 89 years and boasts being the largest trade show in the industry with over 200,000 SF of exhibit space! 

Put on your walking shoes and visit our Western Vault Retailers who will be there:

• Patricia Wolf on the 3rd Floor, Showroom #3373
• Nettles Country will be in Booth #318
• Red Star Riggings - ER K48 & K49

The first Pendleton Round-Up was to be "a frontier exhibition of picturesque pastimes, Indian and military spectacles, cowboy racing and bronco busting for the championship of the Northwest." It turned out to be that and more.

For the initial show, all stores closed "The largest crowd in Pendleton's history," 7,000 strong, showed up for the first show on September 29, 1910. Grow it did. Two decades later, patrons showed up from 36 states and eight foreign countries.     Attendance has now reached 50,000 or more for the four-day show.

*Sept 18 San Antonio Cattle Baron's Ball

San Antonio's 8th year benefitting the American Cancer Society

*Tentative Date

*Oct 8 Fort Worth Cattle Baron's Ball

*Tentative Date

*Oct 21-23 Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering & Western Swing Festival
www.redsteagallcowboygathering.com

Voted 'Best Gathering & Best Family Event by the readers of American Cowboy Magazine. 

*Tentative Schedule

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring and celebrating women, past and present, whose lives exemplify the courage, resilience and independence that helped shape the American West.   Today, nearly 200 extraordinary women have been inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame since 1975.

*Nov 5-20 AQHA World Show, www.aqha.com

*Tentative Schedule

*Tentative Schedule  

Dec 1-11th Cowboy Christmas West Gift Expo www.countrychristmas.com

 
Dec 1 - 10 NFR Rodeo Finals - Las Vegas
www. nfrrodeo.com


Cowboys from all across the U.S. and Canada work all year in hopes of qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo( NFR), the PRCA's premier championship, sometimes referred to as the "Superbowl of Rodeos".

The NFR is held each December in Las Vegas at the Thomas and Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The top 15 regular-season finishers in each event qualify for the NFR and compete for prize money. In December, 2001, this prize money exceeded $4.5 million.

The NFR features the Top 15 competitors in each of professional rodeo's seven events: saddle bronc riding, bull riding, bareback riding, calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling and barrel racing.

This is just a start, cowboys & cowgirls.   We'll keep you apprised as we receive more information about 2011 events. In the meantime, you can print out this calendar by clicking here. You can also check out our website calendar for updated events here.  

Happy Trails!

Linda Galayda              

linda@thewesternvault.com
www.thewesternvault.com

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