Thursday, September 25, 2008

Event has flavors of West Patrons to the West Texas Rehab sale at Producers Livestock Auction today will be welcomed by the smell of mesquite smoke from the campfire of an authentic chuck wagon and the aroma of food being prepared in outdoor cast-iron skillets. In recent years, the Round-Up for Rehab livestock sales have taken on the flavor of the American West, complete with a mule-drawn chuck wagon, which displays cattle brands from ranches contributing to past roundups. Head cook Archie Jobe, who looks like he just walked off a John Wayne Western movie set, will be in the Producers parking lot, 1131 N. Bell St., this morning applying his culinary art to the noon menu. Red beans and corn bread have been the cowboy's staple since 1866, when Texas Panhandle rancher Charles Goodnight introduced the first chuck wagon to the cattle trail drives. Back in 1960, the late Conda Wylie, Coke County rancher and owner of the Fort Chadbourne ranch, separated a few head of beef from his herd, sold them and donated the money to the rehabilitation center. That was the beginning of Cattlemen's Round-Up for Crippled Children....

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