The fantastic Escaramuza Charra is a girls drill team in costume from Las Cruces which will be performing while riding sidesaddle. An expanded Mounted Cowboy Shooting exhibition will include a brand new stagecoach demonstration. A new attraction this year is the exciting Tent Pegging competition featuring teams on horseback. All demonstrations are free with general admission. The new and expanded Kids Corral will have mutton bustin , dummy roping, rope tricks, riatta braiding, cowboy poetry reading, storytelling, a petting zoo and demonstrations by Jerry Long.
Food never tastes better than when it s cooked to perfection over an open fire.
Now you can learn some of the secrets of chuckwagon cooking with our free demonstrations. Cooks will show visitors how to make their specialities. The demonstration will be held at the chuckwagon campsite. Free with general admission. You ll understand why the World s Richest Chuckwagon Cookoff is one of our most popular events when you sit down to lunch at one of the competing wagons.