African-American Heritage Rodeo of Champions at the National Western Stock Show

Brandon Marshall January 17, 2017 6:01AM

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The National Western Stock Show has an MLK Day tradition: the African-American Heritage Rodeo of Champions, honoring those black cowboys who rode the West and highlighting all the traditional rodeo features: bucking broncos, barrel-racing, bull-riding and calf-roping. And for the little cowpokes, there was mutton-busting. All photos by Brandon Marshall.

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