![]() Events like this provide a great opportunity for storychasing! Thanks to my Sony GC1 digital camera / camcorder I’m sure we’ll be able to document tomorrow’s events well too. What fun! It’s not every day we get to watch the world’s most dangerous sport, “live” and “in person” just a few yards away from where we are sitting. Without a doubt, the biggest surprise of the night was watching this cow milking competition which neither my wife or I had ever seen at a rodeo before: This is one of the bull rides from tonight: Two of the bulls the riders rode were young bulls which have NEVER been ridden before successfully. We watched the opening night of the rodeo this evening and will be back again tomorrow night for more rodeo action as well as the famous XIT rodeo free barbeque! Of the six or seven bullriders we saw tonight at the end of the rodeo, only one was able to ride the requisite eight seconds and earn a score. The ribs and brisket at Hodie’s BBQ in Dalhart tonight were some of the best I’ve EVER tasted: (These are all short, since Flickr limits video uploads to a maximum of 90 seconds.) ![]() I posted some photos from today along with 16 videos from the rodeo tonight to Flickr. I’m looking forward to learning more about that in the next two days. Lots of family ties on her side of the family to this area and its history. She grew up coming to Dalhart in the summertime to spend time with her grandmother. My wife read Timothy Egan’s book “The Worst Hard Time” several months ago about the dust bowl era in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle regions, so that makes this trip even more meaningful for her. The history of the Texas State Capitol is closely tied to the origins of the XIT Ranch, and is an interesting story to read if you haven’t heard it previously. This map shows the borders of the original XIT ranch: The brand, in fact, was originated to thwart rustlers. It covered portions of ten counties which apparently helped perpetuate the misbelief that the brand -XIT- stands for “Ten In Texas”. It’s three million acres sprawled from the old Yellow House headquarters, near what is now Lubbock, Texas, northward to the Oklahoma Panhandle, in an irregular strip that was roughly 30 miles wide. The XIT Ranch in the 1880s was the largest range in the world under fence and it all laid in the Texas Panhandle. According to the “Thumbnail History of the XIT Ranch” from the XIT Museum website: My in-laws are from Dalhart and are attending their 50th high school reunion, in addition to the XIT Rodeo which triples the population of Dalhart each year during this single weekend. ![]() The annual event reflects a time when the XIT Ranch stretched across 3 million acres of Texas Panhandle prairies.įor information, call 80 or visit family is in Dalhart, Texas, this weekend for the annual XIT Rodeo. Tickets are $10 Thursday, $15 Friday and $20 Saturday. nightly dances are Cameran Nelson on Thursday, Bart Crow on Friday and Cody Johnson on Saturday. at the arena.īands performing for the 9 p.m. down Denrock Avenue the fiddlers contest at noon at Rita Blanca Lake Picnic Pavilion the annual Mud Bogs at the old KOA campground near the arena and the "world's largest free barbecue" from 4 to 6 p.m. at Dalhart Senior Citizens Center, 610 Denrock Ave. On Saturday, events include the XIT Breakfast and Brunch at 8 a.m. Thursday at United Supermarket, 1601 Tennessee Blvd. Fifth St., through Saturday the Joe Nisbett XIT FK and one-mile run Saturday and more.Ī free chicken leg feed begins at 4 p.m. The fun continues around town with work from featured artist Roylynn Evans at XIT Museum, 108 E. nightly through Saturday at the rodeo arena, 1219 Farm-to-Market Road 281.Īdmission is $10 adults and $5 for children ages 5 to 12 on Friday and Saturday children 12 and younger are free Thursday with a donation of Pop Tarts or peanut butter for Snack Pak 4 Kids. Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association competition takes place at 7 p.m. Action continues through Saturday at the 79th annual XIT Rodeo and Reunion in Dalhart.
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