Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo
Held in the Kansas cattle-drive town where Hickok once kept the peace, this PRCA rodeo fills the historic streets of Abilene with professional cowboys, a parade, and frontier spirit every summer.
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"A genre-blending Labour Day weekend festival rooted in small-town creativity and community, drawing music lovers to the southeast Kansas plains for an eclectic outdoor lineup."
Middle of Everywhere Music Festival
"A world-renowned five-day bluegrass and acoustic music gathering that draws flat-pick and fingerstyle devotees from across the globe to the Walnut Valley Fairgrounds each autumn."
Walnut Valley Festival
"One of Kansas's classic autumn gatherings, this two-day fall festival fills Baldwin City with arts-and-crafts booths, local food, and the full spectacle of Flint Hills foliage colour."
Maple Leaf Festival
"Running since 1919 and taking its name from Halloween spelled backwards, this beloved multi-day festival is the oldest Halloween celebration in Kansas, featuring a themed musical, carnival, chili cook-off, and a parade through small-town Independence."
Neewollah
"Held every year since 1877 at the only remaining Black pioneer town west of the Mississippi, this four-day homecoming draws descendants of original settlers back to the National Historic Landmark for music, a parade, and a pancake breakfast."
Nicodemus Homecoming Emancipation Celebration
"The county seat of Rush County, home to the Barbed Wire Museum, hosts its traditional four-day agricultural fair with the patriotic theme Spotted at the Rush County Fair, celebrating 250 years of American freedom."
Rush County Fair
"Running every evening for more than 80 years, the Cody Nite Rodeo is the longest-running nightly rodeo in the United States, welcoming riders of all levels into the arena of the self-declared Rodeo Capital of the World."
Cody Nite Rodeo
"Clinton draws chuckwagon teams from across North America to its fairgrounds every August for one of the continent's premier working-ranch heritage competitions, complete with cowboy cooking and western entertainment."
National Championship Chuckwagon Race
"A 67-year-old western heritage tradition in the Tuolumne County gold-rush town of Sonora, combining a street parade down Washington Street with a professional rodeo at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds to celebrate the ranching culture that outlasted the mines."
Mother Lode Round-Up Parade and Rodeo
"One of the oldest frontier-community reunions in Central Texas, Hico's Old Settlers' Rodeo draws ranching families from across the Hill Country for a day of traditional rodeo competition, reunion barbecue, and small-town pride."
Hico Old Settlers' Reunion Rodeo
"One of Montana's oldest rodeos, drawing cowboys and fans to the remote high-plains town of Wolf Point each July for three days of PRCA competition on the Fort Peck Reservation border."
Wild Horse Stampede Rodeo
"The gateway town to the Grand Canyon stages its beloved Night Rodeo across multiple summer weekends, a thrilling under-the-stars PRCA event that has been the beating cowboy heart of this Route 66 mountain town for decades."
Williams Night Rodeo