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Louis M. Pearce Jr. (February 17, 1917 – December 26, 2012) was an American businessman and rancher known for leading the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Pearce attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1936 to 1939 where he majored in business administration.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world. It includes one of the richest regular-season professional rodeo events. It has been held at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, since 2003, with the exception of 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colorado, inducted the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in 2008. [7] The Texas Trail of Fame inducted the show in 2015. [8] The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted the show in 2019. [9] The rodeo section of the Fort Worth Stock Show moved to the new Dickies Arena in 2020.
Austin City Limits and Waterloo Records run the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual music and art festival held at Zilker Park in Austin. In Houston, the annual Free Press Summer Fest is a major draw as well as the entertainment lineups at the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Tex Austin returned to London with his rodeo in 1934 where cowboys and cowgirls performed in the White City [16] stadium before the king and queen. Bronc riders including Herman Linder, Frank Sharp, Weldon Bascom, [17] Clark Lund [17] and Pete Knight rode in the 1934 London rodeo. The featured bucking horse of the show was the legendary ...
Vanlandingham was arrested on Nov. 22 and charged with cruelty to livestock animals, a jail felony in Texas. She was released the same day on a $5,000 bond. If convicted, she could face up to two ...
Fat Stock Show may refer to: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo , its original name Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show , an early name for the Fort Worth, Texas-based event
Livestock Weekly is a weekly newspaper published in San Angelo, Texas, that provides international coverage of the livestock industry, focusing on cattle, sheep, goats, range conditions, markets, and ranch life. [1] [2] It was started by Stanley R. Frank in 1948 and was later referred to as "the cowboy's Wall Street Journal." [1] [3]