Cowtown Rodeo
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The Cowtown Rodeo is the longest running weekly rodeo
in the United States, it was started in 1929. The show is at 7:30 on Saturday nights from May through September. In 1957 and 1958, Cowtown was syndicated on national television. It is located in Pilesgrove, New Jersey and Woodstown, New Jersey
. Grant Harris and his family have been running the rodeo every Saturday night during the summer months, since 1955, when it was first staged as a weekly event.
Rodeo
Rodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...
in the United States, it was started in 1929. The show is at 7:30 on Saturday nights from May through September. In 1957 and 1958, Cowtown was syndicated on national television. It is located in Pilesgrove, New Jersey and Woodstown, New Jersey
Woodstown, New Jersey
Woodstown is a Borough in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 3,136.Woodstown was established on July 26, 1882, from portions of Pilesgrove Township based on the results of a referendum held that same day...
. Grant Harris and his family have been running the rodeo every Saturday night during the summer months, since 1955, when it was first staged as a weekly event.