Cowboy Culture

National Cowboy Symposium

By admin ⋅ August 27, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

If you live in the Lubbock, Texas area and can’t get enough of cowboy culture and heritage, then be sure and check out the National Cowboy Symposium at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The 20th year of the Symposium will include a myriad of events, such as:

Add to that a Sept. 5-7 schedule that includes 33 chuck wagons from eight states, a national roping competition, the best of a century of Western clothes, a parade of horses, a Native American powwow and Western singers, and only the insensitive will feel the past has truly been left behind.

Mary Jane Buerkle, chairwoman of the Dress of the West display, said this is the first time for the show at the Cowboy Symposium.

"It is brand new," she said. "What this is designed to do is to celebrate the history of Western clothing. We have all kinds of clothing, beginning from the early 1900s all the way up to today. It’s going to be a display of different articles that have been worn over the past century.

"We also have stuff from Miss Rodeo America, which is going to be a really fun part of the exhibit. I have seen some pictures of the articles of clothing, and they are really glamorous."

For tickets and more information regarding the event, check out the

National Cowboy Symposium’s website

.