Western roundup of events where you can experience the Old West!
ART FESTIVALS
Buffalo Roundup and Arts Festival
Custer State Park, SD, September 24-26: Western artists showcase their work as cowboys roundup and drive a herd of approximately 1,300 buffalo.
605-255-4515 • BlackHillsBadlands.com
Favell Museum Invitational Art Show & Sale
Klamath Falls, OR, Opens September 26: A showcase of contemporary, representational art by more than 30 acclaimed West Coast artists.
541-882-9996 • FavellMuseum.org
AUCTION
Antique & Modern Firearms
Rock Island, IL, September 11-13: Firearm enthusiasts bid on antique and modern firearms, edged weapons and military artifacts.
800-238-8022 • RockIslandAuction.com
COMPETITIONS
Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials
Meeker, CO, September 9-13: Held since 1987, this sheepdog competition refines the skills required of a dog and rancher to manage a sheep ranch.
970-878-0111 • MeekerSheepdog.com
All Nations Indian Relay Championships
Billings, MT, September 17-20: American Indians compete in a high-daring sport of horsemanship that is America’s oldest known competition.
406-370-8470 • IndianRelay.com
FRONTIER FARE
Taste of Oregon’s Old West
Condon, OR, September 12: Showcases locally grown food and beverages, recreation, culture and landscape of the John Day River Territory.
541-786-8006 • VisitEasternOregon.com
FUNDRAISER
Cow Thieves & Outlaws Reunion
Bartlesville, OK, September 26: Cowboys and cowgirls gather at Woolaroc’s Clyde Lake Pavilion for a major fundraising event benefiting the Frank Phillips Foundation.
918-336-0307 • Woolaroc.org
HERITAGE FESTIVALS
Wagon Days
Ketchum, ID, September 2-7: Features one of the largest non-motorized parades in the Pacific Northwest, plus wagons and stagecoaches.
800-658-2548 • WagonDays.org
Celebrate Bandera
Bandera, TX, September 4-6: Bandera comes alive with music, gunfights, an intertribal powwow, a Wild West show and a mutton busting rodeo.
830-796-4447 • CelebrateBandera.com
Harvest Festival
Gering, NE, September 19-20: Parades and demonstrations honor agricultural history of Nebraska at Legacy of the Plains Museum.
308-436-1989 • LegacyOfThePlains.org
Gold Rush Days
Sacramento, CA, September 4-7: Go back in time to 1850 Sacramento where you can pan for gold, gamble and drink homemade sarsaparilla.
800-292-2334 • SacramentoGoldRushDays.com
Fiesta De Septiembre
Wickenburg, AZ, September 5: This celebration of Hispanic pioneer heritage features Mariachi music, folklorico dances and an outdoor mercado.
928-684-5479 • WickenburgChamber.com
Old West Balloon Fest
Scottsbluff, NE, September 5: Spectators gather to watch hot air balloons rise to the sky, as well as enjoy a kite demonstration and live music.
308-665-1808 • OldWestBalloonFest.com
Barlow Trail Rendezvous Days
The Dalles, OR, September 5-6: Cowboys and mountain men celebrate their heritage with a chili cook-off, horseshoe tournament and more.
541-544-2077 • TheDallesChamber.com
Elko County Fair & Horse Races
Elko, NV, Closes September 7: Elko County residents pay tribute to their pioneer heritage with livestock shows and horse races.
800-248-3556 • ExploreElko.com
Defeat of Jesse James Days
Northfield, MN, September 9-13: Celebrate the town heroes who stopped the Jesse James Gang during their famous 1876 bank raid.
800-658-2548 • DJJD.org
Why Wyoming Will Want to Rewrite The History of Cowboy High Style
Cheyenne, WY, September 10: John Faubion discusses how Lawrence Tenney Stevens’s sculptures have impacted Cowboy High Style.
307-777-7021 • LawrenceTenneyStevens.com
Harvest Festival
Gering, NE, September 19-20: Parades and demonstrations honor agricultural history of Nebraska at Legacy of the Plains Museum.
308-436-1989 • LegacyOfThePlains.org
Hells Canyon Mule Days
Enterprise, OR, September 11-13: This mule show and sale features an Old World Oxen living history camp, plus cowboy music, poetry and art.
888-323-3271 • HellsCanyonMuleDays.com
National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration
Lubbock, TX, September 11-13: Celebrate cowboy culture at one of the West’s biggest chuckwagon cook-offs, plus enjoy cowboy music and poetry.
806-798-7825 • Cowboy.org
American Indian Day & Powwow Celebration
Chamberlain, SD, September 17-19: St. Joseph’s Indian School honors Lakota culture with an all-day powwow, tiyospaye banquet and hoop dances.
800-341-2235 • StJo.org
Rail Town USA Railfest
North Platte, NE, September 18-20: Locals pay tribute to the history and continued progress of the Union Pacific Railroad.
308-221-6104 • NPRailfest.com
Fort Bayard Days
Silver City, NM, September 18-20: This celebration of Buffalo Soldiers history offers tours of the 1866 fort, a military ball and history re-enactments.
575-956-3294 • FortBayard.org
Fur Trade Symposium
La Junta, CO, September 23-26: Join historians and enthusiasts at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site to celebrate fur trade history.
719-282-5026 • 2015FTS.org
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Pickamania!
Silver City, NM, September 11-13: The heart of southwestern New Mexico celebrates Bluegrass, Folk and Americana sounds.
575-538-2505 • SilverCityTourism.org
POW-WOW
Totah Festival Indian Market & Pow Wow
Farmington, NM, September 5-6: American Indian artisans from across the Four Corners region celebrate their heritage with a powwow and an authentic Navajo rug auction.
505-599-1174 • FarmingtonNM.org
RE-ENACTMENTS
Showdown in Tombstone
Tombstone, AZ, September 5-7: Gunfighting groups from across the country gather to perform on the streets of Tombstone.
888-457-3929 • TombstoneChamber.com
Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous
North Platte, NE, September 18-20: Re-enacts Grand Duke Alexis’s 1872 buffalo hunt with Gen. George Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody.
308-534-5640 • LincolnCountyMuseum.org
Younger Brothers Capture
Madelia, MN, September 19: Re-enacts the 1876 capture of the Younger Brothers and James Gang member Charlie Pitts by residents of Madelia.
507-642-8822 • VisitMadelia.com
Wild West Fest
877-906-0777 • DodgeCityWildWestFest.com
RODEOS
Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch Rodeo
Amarillo, TX, September 5-6: Features the rodeo talents of the boys and girls of Cal Farley’s, ages 3 to 18, plus a free barbecue lunch.
800-687-3722 • CalFarley.org
West Texas Fair and Rodeo
Abilene,TX, September 11-19: This week of PRCA rodeo also offers up a tractor pull, food vendors and a carnival with a variety of rides.
325-677-4376 • TaylorCountyExpoCenter.com
Pendleton Round-up
Pendleton, OR, September 16-19: A PRCA rodeo with cowboy concerts, Indian relay races, the Happy Canyon festival and a rodeo parade.
800-457-6336 • PendletonRoundup.com