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Join us for our monthly meeting to discuss trail maintenance, upcoming events, and trail rides!

Let’s connect @ Barb Knight’s place and build a shell of our 2024 activities. Come w/your ideas for locations and activities that you want to attend.

Ranch roping breakaway clinic and Practice. $40 per day or $55 for both days. Sunday there is a jackpot in the afternoon for $20.

This is a planning meeting for the Back Country Horsemen State Rendezvous being hosted by the Wind River chapter. Please contact us for the address.

Monthly dinner at El Vaquero in Riverton.

Come out for a meal, some cowgirl talk about horses, events and perhaps an adult beverage of choice.

An Opportunity for the community to buy, sell or trade. Come shop for saddles, bridles, blankets, trailers, boots, show clothes and more!

A bulletin board will be available to advertise your horses for sale, events, and equine services.

Barter is best but Cash is King!!

CWC  will be hosting practice sessions on each Saturday before the show on Sunday. Youth and adult divisions include Ranch Trail, Ranch Riding, Reining, and Working Cow Horse. Competitors can enter one class or all classes in their division and have a chance to win Ranch Horse All Around Awards.

Join us for games at Babe’s! Bring a snack to share and let’s play!

Team Sorting clinic and Practice. $40 per day or $55 for both days. Sunday there is a jackpot in the afternoon for $20.

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Join our Marvelous Mavericks for our monthly meeting. We will go over upcoming events, share accomplishments, and ideas.

Be sure to bring your membership card, so you have a shot at winning a door prize!

The Wind River Back Country Horsemen are having their monthly chapter meeting. Come learn about trail clearing projects, the state rendezvous, trail rides, and upcoming events!

Event Section – Abilene Contender Finals

CSSHA holds Sunday afternoon practices with cattle twice a month at Lander’s LOTRA indoor arena this winter. Take advantage of practicing with cattle and a CowTrac flag for herdwork and cow horse experience from 1:00-4:00 Sunday afternoons on the Sundays listed below. (Sorry, but no roping.) If you are a member of LOTRA and CSSHA, the practice is free. If you are not a member of the LOTRA arena, it’s only $30 per person for all afternoon! (No practice if it’s zero degrees or lower on that day!) Annual LOTRA arena memberships are available at https://lotra.org.

Contact Paula McCormick, [email protected], 307-851-1126 or Nancy Williams, 307-760-5101 [email protected] for more information.

January 21 & 28 (NEW), 2024

February 11 & 25, 2024  

March 10 & 24, 2024 

We have been invited to ride at the Rafter L ranch.
Beautiful scenery and an obstacle course available too.

Clinic limited to 15 participants. Currently they have a waiting list. The instructors are from Rustic Farm.

CWC  will be hosting practice sessions on each Saturday before the show on Sunday. Youth and adult divisions include Ranch Trail, Ranch Riding, Reining, and Working Cow Horse. Competitors can enter one class or all classes in their division and have a chance to win Ranch Horse All Around Awards.

Come visit over 100 vendors with their wares, over 300 tables at the Coliseum! Thank you for supporting small businesses from local to all around Texas! Visit the website for more info www.abilenegunshow.com

This is also our monthly meeting. 6pm at the Riverton Country Club. I will announce our chapter awards and there will be raffles and silent auctions. We choose from menu items for dinner and everyone is responsible for paying for their own meals.  Please RSVP to Marillyn by February 18th. You are welcome to bring family and friends!

Join our Marvelous Mavericks riding the trails around the lake at Abilene State Park.
Check in at the office to show proof of negative coggins, and pay the $5/person park entrance fee.
Make a U-turn around the office and go back out to the highway. Go Left for 1 mile. Lake entrance is on the right. We park near the swimming area or in the first boat ramp parking lot.
The trail is a 2 hour ride. Bathrooms are close to parking. Yes, there are areas where you can water your horse.
Melisa is leading the way!

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Come on out to Mini Doc’s!

Doc’s Bar and Grill has an event venue just to the left of the archway entrance. Mini Doc’s provides a private building, bar and wait staff.
Our Cowgirl Roundup will include upcoming trail ride opportunities, nearby events and don’t forget about the door prize! See y’all there!

The Wind River Back Country Horsemen are having their monthly chapter meeting. Come learn about trail clearing projects, the state rendezvous, trail rides, and upcoming events!

Looking forward to our Annual Spring Retreat @Lazy TK Ranch! Get ready for some world class Western swing music, yodeling lesson & Cowgirl poetry w/Devon Dawson & Teresa Burleson on Friday night!
Plenty of time to rest, relax and/or ride on this lovely ranch.

A certified massage therapist will be available for appointments @ ranch. $35/30 minutes & $75 for one hour if 2 or more. ( This will be at your own expense) .

This is a closed chapter event. Must pay Liesa Kennedy or Babe Chambers $100 by no later than 14 Feb 2024.

Rocking RJ Ranch – Stephenville: Ribbons, Cows and Fun and good food!!

First show is March 16.   There will be a cow practice on Friday starting at 4.   Bring your trainer or just practice following a cow.    Each cow is $20.

We have added a MUSTANG group!    We have continued the walk trot division.

We have reduced the office fee to $15 per family.
All other prices are on flyer below.

Show starts at 9.   You may sign up Friday night or just use this easy jotform.

And show registration will begin on that morning at 7.

There will be 3 judges for each course.

Lunch provided by me
Chicken Spaghetti – I make the best
Roast with potatoes and carrots
Green chili enchiladas- I make the best
St patty day homemade cookies
Salad
Tea
And probably other surprises.
Let’s get everyone together and have a great show!!!

I have plenty of hookups and stalls.
$35 for hookup and $20 for stalls.   Please clean when you leave.

Now, here is the deal!!!!     Let’s be one on one with our horses and have good runs, learn something and have a great time!

Come out to celebrate Marillyn’s birthday! Dinner at Midvale Station (6pm) and then Disco party at hilltop Lounge!

Monthly dinner at Ichiban Japanese Restaurant in Riverton.

Join us at Abilene State Park for our monthly trail ride. Be sure to check in, show coggins, and pay your fee to the park station before heading to the lake. Lake entrance is left 1 mile up the highway on the right side. We park near the swimming/picnic area. See y’all there!

Babe will provide several games, tables and non-alcoholic beverages. Feel free to bring a new game if you want to introduce to others. Please bring a snack to share with others.

Let’s connect on Good Friday! Have some lunch in a beautifully restored Victorian house. Another opportunity for cowgirl fellowship. See you there!

Join us out to lunch in one of Abilene’s cutest restaurants, Hickory Street Cafe. Let’s catch up and enjoy a good meal with each other. See y’all there!

Join our Marvelous Mavericks of Abilene at our monthly Cowgirl Roundup.
This month we have a special guest speaker from Camp Able, Monica Stovall.
Looking forward to hearing from her about the work Camp Able does with the autistic community, as well as volunteer opportunities.
See y’all there!

The Wind River Back Country Horsemen are having their monthly chapter meeting. Come learn about trail clearing projects, the state rendezvous, trail rides, and upcoming events!

Let’s gather around the fire pit and catch up as good friends do. Bring a snack/dish to share and a blanket to cozy up with.

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Joins us on a lovely trail ride w/Terrie @ Rafter L ranch. She will also have obstacle course available after trail ride.
Ranch Pizzeria is a great place for a late lunch in Coleman too. See you there!

Annalise has invited us to ride her family ranch! Kemper Ranch has some rocky areas and opportunity to play in the water. Can’t wait to see y’all on this beautiful spring time ride!
Please reach out for the address.

Monthly dinner at Thai Chef Restaurant in Riverton.

Meet up at Marillyn’s house at noon and then we ride at 1pm.  We go on a trail ride to find hidden ribbons that you turn in for an Easter basket. Some ribbons may get you an additional prize or an “upgraded” Easter basket!!! Marillyn will have some snacks and beverages (of course, there will be jello shots and peeps shots!!!!!) It is $25 per participant to help cover some of the cost of the Easter basket items.  (You get a basket with more than $25 in value.)  This is just a fun ride and day, not an extensive trail ride. You basically ride until you find a ribbon or as long as you want. We then go to my neighbor’s house and he feeds us. I will have a “new” place to ride this year. Woohoo! Please RSVP to Marillyn by March 30th so she can have enough baskets prepared. Feel free to bring prospective members, family, or friends! “Rain date” make-up ride will be April 20th.

Attending Ranch Horse Clinic– 9am-4pm at the Rustler Ag Complex (CWC Arena). $200, includes lunch. Contact Caitlan Thorne at 307-855-2287 for more info or to register.

If anyone is interested in volunteering for western heritage day at Hardin-Simmons, they are looking for people to show kids how to rope (like 1st graders). In the past HSU students who don’t know how to rope have helped but they’d love to have “real cowgirls/boys” come to show how it’s done.

Western Heritage Day

It is Thursday April 25th 8 am- noon. Over 2000 kids are already signed up.
Other western things to show the kids are also open for suggestion. The six white horses will have a farrier working on them for one of the stations.

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Must have proof of negative Coggins. Western attire required. Western heritage rules in all classes.

Books open Friday PM for practice @5:30pm. Practice starts @ 6pm

Saturday morning books open @ 08:30AM. Sorting starts @10AM

Line dancing lessons from 7-7:30pm. Dancing from 7:30-8:30pm. Free, but there will be a tip jar to help the teacher with fuel costs.

Attending Bear Awareness Training #1- 5:30pm at the Wyoming Indian Tech Center. 638 Blue Sky Hwy in Ethete. Stew and frybread will be served.

Attending Bear Awareness Training #1- 5:30pm at the Frank B. Wise building in Fort Washakie. Stew and frybread will be served.