What is "Cowboy Christmas"?
If you ask people around you, you will hear several different versions of this. Here is ours:
- is a loose term that describes the time that begins (unofficially) after the Reno Rodeo in Nevada and runs through the 4th of July weekend (or through most of July, depending on who you ask).
- a time of year that is celebrated in a cowboy style, Christmas.
- a musical and poetic celebration of the Christmas holiday from American cowboys.
What is celebrated during Cowboy Christmas?
This will depend on whom you are asking again.
- if you are talking to the Rodeo crowd then they are celebrating the fact that the highest prize money is during this time.
- if you are talking to those who live the cowboy style, Christmas time is about just that Christmas, but it is done with cowboy flair.
- if you are talking to those who love the music and poetic time of year, you may be going to a Cowboy Christmas Ball and hear music and poetry being read.
What is on the Cowboy Christmas wish list?
A Cowboy's Christmas Wish List:
- New cowboy hat (I threw the last one in the crowd after a great ride)
- New set of boots (Ones with no holes in 'em)
- New set of work gloves (Leather of course)
- Yellow rain coat
- 30/30 (Winchester is preferred, it can be used)
- A new rifle scabbard (for my new 30/30)
- Remington statue (anyone of them)
- New saddle (light and comfortable)
- Art work (for the walls of my cabin)
- Belt (it may have my name on it, but it don't have to)
- Belt buckle (a Thomas Ranch one of course)
- Land (that I can call my own)
- Duster
- Spurs
- Chaps
- A good trained horse (not like the one that threw me in the river)
- A Log Cabin
- New bed roll
- New pair of Jeans (that are not torn)
- A whole bag of new socks (with no holes)
- Copenhagen Belt Buckle
Cowboy Christmas to us is a time of celebration and a time of family. Family joins at one selected house and puts in the past what ever may have interrupted them during the year.
It is a time of thanks and warmth, a time of Love, a time of Joy, a time of Inner-Peace with yourselves and others around you. May all of you have they best Cowboy Christmas you can, wither you are riding the rodeo or just sitting around the Christmas tree waiting for your new 30/30 to be unwrapped. You can read up on
The Thomas Ranch Thanksgiving Cowboy Style.
We here at
The Thomas Ranch wish you all a very, Merry Cowboy Christmas!!
AMERICAN PRIDE! COUNTRY PRIDE! GOD BLESS THE COWBOY!
