ARE
YOU READY TO RODEO?
A
Wild West Weekend to lasso the fancy of any history buff is scheduled
for the first weekend in June, by Flint Hills Overland Wagon Train
Trips, El Dorado, Kan.
An
evening at the Strong City Professional Rodeo Cowboy Assn. (PRCA) has
been added to the scheduled (June 7 & 8, 2003) wagon train adventure.
This is the 66th annual Strong City PRCA event. the oldest consecutively
held rodeo in Kansas.
An additional $50 will add rodeo admission, barbecue supper, overnight
campground, and campfire-cooked breakfast to the regular trip package.
SPACE
IS LIMITED!
Wild
West weekenders will meet at the tennis courts-athletic field in the
300 block of South Neosho Street in Council Grove, Kansas, which
is a block north of Custer Oak Park.
Participants
will be led in their personal vehicles to the Chase County Flint Hills Overland
Wagon Train campsite where they may set up tents while supper preparations
are completed. The group will be guided to and from the Strong City Rodeo
arena after super.
There are many participatory activities based on the work and
play of the Kansas homesteading era, educational and entertaining songs
and sonnets of the Old West, information about historic trails, geology
and plant life of this untouched part of the shrinking American Tallgrass
Prairie. Passengers travel in authentic covered wagons. The historic re-creations
have been reenacted by the Flint Hills group since 1979.
A limited number
of guests can be accommodated for the Strong City Rodeo overnight. For
information contact Flint Hills Overland Wagon Train Trips, 316-321-6300.
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