Event marks National Cowboy Day

Cowboys, gunslingers, and outlaws came together Saturday at the Rusk County Youth Expo Center in Henderson to celebrate the National Day of the Cowboy. The Circle C Cowboy Church led by Pastor Pat Alphin sponsored the event in hopes to show how important cowboys have been to the United States. The event started Saturday morning with several venders setting up to sell handmade trinkets and live music, but a small group of surly looking hombres were camped across the parking lot. Several cowboys and badmen were all toting iron and dressed to the nines in old-fashioned western attire. They laid back in the shade listening to tunes from a truck nearby and swapped stories, mostly made up...more