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National Western Stock Show Study Guide
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January 10, 1906 |
First Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado |
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March 10. 1906 |
Western Stock Show Association incorporated |
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1908 |
First official horse show |
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1908 |
Stock show renamed National Western Stock Show |
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1909 |
Stadium Arena opens |
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1931 |
5 rodeo events replaced 3 horse show events |
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1952 |
Denver Coliseum dedicated |
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1973 |
Hall of Education & Beef Palace open |
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1982 |
First Grand Prix jumping |
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1991 |
Expo Hall & Stadium Hall open |
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1994 |
Mexican Rodeo added |
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1995 |
Events Center opens |
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1997 |
Professional Bull Riders shows added |
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2006 |
National Western Stock Show celebrates 100 th year |
Books
National Western Horse Show Programs 636.2 N213s (various years)
Ten Days Every January: A History of the National Western Stock Show. Willard E. Simms 1980. 636.2 Si48t
Riding High: Colorado Ranchers and 100 Years of the National Western Stock Show. Thomas J. Noel 2005. q636.01 N682ri
Western Man: Photographs from the National Western Stock Show. Sandy Hume. q636.2002 W 525
Catalog
Subjects: National Western Stock Show, Denver stock yards, Agriculture, Livestock, Ranching.
Manuscript
Collections
From subject index:
National Western Stock Show MSS # 1087, MSS # 501, MSS # 183
Denver Stock Yards MSS # 309, MSS # 501
Stock Show MSS # 458
Stock Yards MSS # 1074
Photographs
Agriculture - Exhibitions
C - Denver Buildings Coliseum
C - Denver Exhibitions National Western Livestock Show
C- Denver Stockyards Union Stockyards
Denver & Rio Grande Photo Collection
BPF Cody, William F.
BPF Johnson, Edwin C.
BPF Simms, Willard
Boxed Collection William Braiden box 2 (oversize)
Boxed Collection Neustetters- Denver stores
Postcard Collection C- Denver
Rancher & Farmer Collection (negatives and prints) unprocessed collection
Ephemera
Subject Collection Organizations National Western Stock Show
Newspapers
Denver Daily Record Stockman
Serials
Colorado Heritage
"National Western: A Brief History of the Stock Show" 1981 Issue 1
pp. 101 - 125.
"Ill-Smelling Bones and a Bad Reputation: Denvers Struggle to Stage A
Stock Show." Autumn 2004
The Colorado Magazine
"Experiences of Harry Petrie" Vol. 21 No. 6 Nov. 1944
"Seventy-five Years of Rodeo in Colorado- Rodeo Lives On" Vol. 28, No.
3 July 1951. pp. 219-232.
Colorado Rancher and Farmer
"National Western Stock Show and Rodeo"
National Western News
National Western Stock Show and Rodeo
C.W.A. Reference
Card File
Subject: Livestock- Stock Yards
Place: Denver Stock Show
Place: Denver Buildings-
