Red Steagall’s Cowboy Gathering brings folks together to celebrate Western heritage through reading, rodeoing, chuckwagon cooking, and more.
After 32 years, this beloved cowboy poetry event has morphed into a much larger gathering with this primary goal: celebrate the people who live on horseback to provide food for our tables and support the younger generation to do the same. This October, Red Steagall’s Cowboy Gathering brought folks from all over the country to the Fort Worth Stockyards for a celebration of Western heritage.
Red Steagall, the official Cowboy Poet of Texas, has recorded, written, sung, and broadcasted for the last 50 years all over the globe (PHOTOGRAPHY: Courtesy Click Thompson).
A cowboy gathering wouldn’t be complete without a ranch rodeo, in which working ranches send their best cowboys to compete in real-life day-to-day activities, such as maverick branding (PHOTOGRAPHY: Courtesy Click Thompson).
There are six events at a ranch rodeo: team sorting, maverick branding, saddle bronc, team doctoring, stray gathering, and wild cow milking (PHOTOGRAPHY: Courtesy Click Thompson).
Folks gathered along the streets of the Fort Worth Stockyards to celebrate with fellowship, fashion, and good cowboy cooking (PHOTOGRAPHY: Courtesy Zuza Isham).
From our February/March 2024 issue.
Learn more at redsteagallcowboygathering.com.
