Franklin, Tenn. (May 11, 2015) – Two Franklin women will compete at this weekend’s Franklin Rodeo.
Cowgirls Jessi Fish, age 22, and Rae Scott, age 19, will barrel race at the 66th annual rodeo.
Fish, the veteran of the two, grew up attending the rodeo and volunteering at it. Since she turned pro as a member of the Women’s Pro Rodeo Association four years ago, she’s run barrels at her hometown rodeo each of those years.
FORT WORTH, Texas (Feb. 8, 2015) –Kendra Dickson has been part of the Jerry Ann Taylor Award at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo every year since it was introduced.
The $5,000 award, which is presented by the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, is given to the best-dressed
barrel racer during the finals of the World’s Original Indoor Rodeo® on the final Saturday night of the Fort Worth rodeo. Jerry Ann Taylor, a 1986 honoree of the hall, was a flamboyant trick rider and roper who was known for her sense of style.
Fredric Remington was born in Canton, New York October 4, 1861. He was brought up during the Civil War, his boyhood passions consisted of riding, boating, fishing, hunting, the military and the great outdoors. During school he enjoyed sketching and doodling different objects especially soldiers in military uniforms.
Ghost town is more than just some dusty old mining camp. For one thing, it’s all indoors. And whereas the enchantment if a real ghost town is its sparseness, the fun of this one is marveling at how much stuff it has managed to pack into its twelve different buildings.
Leslie Grimes painted three murals for the Farmer John Meats Company in the West, and although the one he did in Vernon, California, is probably the widest known- because it was featured in the background of a scene in Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point (1970) – the one on Grant Street in Tucson is the one we like most.