National Cowboy Symposium riding into Lubbock again

Cowboys and cowgirls with stories to tell and songs to sing will ride into Lubbock Thursday evening with figurative lassos designed to capture a moment of this area’s ranching past. The Sons of the San Joaquin have been signed to headline the singing portion of the 23rd annual National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration to continue through Sunday at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Storytellers with tales of the Old West plan to inspire visions of the frontier through imaginative poetry and prose based on lonely cowboys riding night herd, and ranchers struggling to establish cattle operations in a land where Comanches had recently hunted buffalo. From the Native American side of the Old West, descendants of Quanah Parker will set up tepees on the grassy area across the street to the north of the Civic Center to demonstrate American Indian culture. And in an adjacent area, cowboy cooks from 24 chuck wagons plan to chicken-fry steaks of a quality that food dreams are made of, and boil the strongest coffee known to man...more