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Rodeo of the Ozarks parade, Emma Avenue, Springdale, July 1967. |
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Each year Springdale holds rodeo parades on July 1st and 4th. Marching bands, stagecoaches, the Springdale Stepperettes, antique cars, riders and their horses, fire engines, rodeo officials and queens, civic groups, and even the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile have all traveled down Emma Avenue to the delight of the crowds. Other rodeo festivities through the years have included square dance contests, barbeques, “shoot-outs,” horseshoe tournaments, pancake breakfasts, stick- horse parades, stagecoach rides, mare-colt races, chuck-wagon dinners, and “ole time mellodrammers.” |
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Rodeo cowboys often wear big, flashy
belt buckles. When the sport was first professionalized, many cowboys
were also boxers and received similar belts as prizes in the ring. |
