DID YOU KNOW?

The world’s oldest rodeo dates back to July, 1888, in Prescott, Arizona, where it was billed as a “cowboy tournament.” The committee organizing the rodeo included Bucky O’Neill, later of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and Morris Goldwater, the town major and uncle of 1964 Republican presidental candidate, Barry Goldwater – who often participated in the rodeo and once said that it was his secret desire as a child to become a cowboy.