Parade Winner’s 2015

CURT SULLIVAN SWEEPSTAKES AWARD  – Nesbitt’s Historical Antique Fire Equipment CHAIRMAN’S AWARD  – Wolverton Mountain Ranch JUDGES AWARD  – Chukut Kuk District BAND Paul Grimes Outstanding Music Award  – Catalina Foothills High School Band Bucky Steele Outstanding Marching Band Award  – Gadsden Elementary School District #32 Marching Band BEST MOUNTED WESTERN MALE First Place Andrew –…

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2014 Grand Marshal – Dan Marries

  The Grand Marshal The G R A N D M A R S H A L 2014 Grand Marshal, Tucson Rodeo Parade Dan Marries KOLD 13 NEWS Anchor Dan Marries Named 2014 Rodeo Parade Grand Marshal Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s the mantra of…

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RODEO’s Four Horsemen – 1936

Tucson NewsPaper 1936 RODEO’s Four Horsemen Have Eleven-Year Record of Work, Condron,  Mullins,  Kinney and Marshall Served Through Every Year That Show Has Been Staged in City And Have Had Same Posts Every Season This is the title which has been bestowed upon the quartet of officials who alone have a 100 per cent record…

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Cowboys are asked not to shoot up the town – 1925

Headline in the Arizona Daily Star in 1925 reads: “Cowboys are asked not to shoot up the town” Tucson in 1925 was a frontier town: The first Tucson Rodeo was held in the middle of Prohibition. With so many visitors expected, decisions were made to clean up the town. Arizona State Prohibition Director Frank Pool…

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