Also from August 12
Lead stories
6:03 a.m.
Gusty winds grow Rim Fire to 2,500 acres- August 11, 2009
- Plumes of smoke continued to rise over the Rim Country throughout the weekend as fire crews worked to control 14 fires in the Coconino National Forest, including the Rim Fire, which gained another 1,000 acres with extreme winds Saturday.
12:39 p.m.
- It’s rodeo time in Payson
- August 12, 2009
- The spirit of the West lives on through the sport of professional rodeo. And that spirit will descend on Payson with the 125th Annual World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo. Events are planned from Tuesday, Aug. 11 through Sunday, Aug. 16.
All stories
- Bull riding most dangerous & most popular event
- August 12, 2009
- Unlike the other rough stock contestants, bull riders are not required to spur — it’s optional, according to the 2009 PRCA Media Guide.
- Women’s rodeo events guaranteed to entertain
- August 12, 2009
- When the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association programs come to the Payson Event Center Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 12 and 13, expect to see some world-class athletes.
- Annual Rodeo Parade a party for everyone
- August 12, 2009
- An estimated 70 entries are expected to travel old Main from Green Valley Park to Sawmill Crossing in the 2009 Rodeo Parade. With the theme “August Doin’s Rodeo Roundup” the parade will help Payson and the Rim Country celebrate the 125th year of the World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo.
- Rim’s legendary and world champion cowboys
- August 12, 2009
- The Rim Country and Tonto Basin may be remote, but perhaps that isolation and the best air anywhere are what provided the perfect habitat for rodeo champions and legendary cowboys. The area has produced 11 world champion rodeo competitors over the years and some of them still hold records in their fields. It is also home to some legendary cowboys.
- Celebrating 125 years of rodeo in Rim Country
- August 12, 2009
- In the 1800s Payson was mostly a flat, grassy spot where cowboys could gather up their scattered, near-wild herds during the fall roundups, and prepare to drive them down to Phoenix or to the railroad line in Winslow. Naturally enough, the cowboys spent a lot of time boasting and then staging impromptu contests to both establish bragging rights and win enough money to have a good time during their time off. So began the August Doin’s … 125 years later we celebrate the World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo.
- It’s rodeo time in Payson
- August 12, 2009
- The spirit of the West lives on through the sport of professional rodeo. And that spirit will descend on Payson with the 125th Annual World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo. Events are planned from Tuesday, Aug. 11 through Sunday, Aug. 16.
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