Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1990 Page: 1 of 15
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Wednesday, January 31,1990
Tarrant County Junior College
Fort Worth, Texas
Volume 2, Number 13
artwork by Kathy Cermak
Cowtown tradition, American West evolve
For one Denton girl, caring for and showing
(see Stockshow on page 8)
1968 by the American Association of Sheriff
Posses and Riding Clubs. The controversy was
over reserved rodeo seals for posse riders.
And once again boycotts and protests arose
this year; from one side those who say rodeo
events are inhumane and should be abolished,
and from the other the handicapped who do not
have the accessibility to attend the sport.
“Rodeo events such as calf roping and
bronco busting is cruel and should not be
allowed to go on,” one animal activist said.
“What many of those who are crying about
animal rights do not realize is that the steers and
horses used in such events are raised and taken aspect of the cattle business,
care of in such a way as to be able to handle the
competition. Those animals are expensive and
big business to the owners and I don’t think
they want any harm to come to their animal,”
Jeff Davids, a rancher from Texarkana, Ark.,
said. “It is a crime though that the coliseum is
not easily accessible to everyone interested in
seeing the shows.”
In either case more than 100 people were on
waiting lists and are willing to pay thousands
for one of the 156 box seats, which rarely
change hands. Many tickets have been passed
down from generation to generation.
Butfor many, the show is more than rodeos,
exhibitions and live entertainment, it is another
meat packing houses to the area.
A 1929 fire destroyed exhibition buildings,
killing a traveling salesman and 2,000 fowl.
The year before, a steer had charged officials
during a rodeo award ceremony; and a year
later, cowgirl-performer Tad Lucas was in-
jured when her horse fell on her after jumping
a car.
In 1937, a steer broke through a barrier and
out of the Coliseum. It was finally slopped by
bullets after injuring a policeman and causing
an onlooker’s heart attack.
Due to the war effort, there was no show in
1943, and the following year the show was
moved to the Will Rogers Memorial Center,
which caused friction with some Nori’; Siders.
By Kelly Patterson
Staff Writer
In 1896 when the first stock show occurred
in Fort Worth, there were no parades, no ro-
deos, no midway, not even an entrance fee —
just cattle.
Itbegan as a quiet Stockyard gathering with
a few herd of cattle shaded by oak and pecan
trees along Marine Creek, when the population
of Cowtown was a mere 23,(XX), and lasted
only two days.
The two-day show was so well received that
promoters tried it again six months later, and
eventually the show became an annual one in
the North Side area called Niles City, a tax
haven created to lure the Armour and Swift
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Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1990, newspaper, January 31, 1990; Hurst, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1183212/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room.