Stories Can Include:

• Skeeters – tall tale about mosquitoes sucking out all of Red River Joe’s rattle snake poisoned blood to save his life.
• Prairie Mom – true story of the life of a woman on the Great Plains in 1865 and a day she makes soap and has an Indian encounter.
• Bill Picket – Black cowboy and how he invented Bull Dogging – Steer Wresting at rodeos.
• Prairie Coal – all about buffalo chips
• Facing Fears – a Native American story taught to children as a way to face their fears.

Songs Can Include:

(*always include) - *Texas Cowboy;  *Cowboy’s Dream;  Old Texas Now;  Chisholm Trail;  I’m a Poor Lonesome Cowboy;  I Ride an Old Paint;  Cowboys Like to Ride;  and *Home on the Range.
Historical Facts:

Events that caused the cowboy to ride onto the pages of American History; Roots of the singing cowboy; the Spanish/Mexican heritage; branding and brands; trail drives and the jobs cowboys performed; railroad influences; Western Movement campfire fuel; why the era ended; and more.

Rope Tricks Include:

The Butterfly, Flat Loop, Cowboy Trade Off, Merry-Go-Round, One Foot Spoke Hop, Two Foot Spoke Hop, The Old In and Out, Wedding Ring, The Pop-Off, Will Roger’s Flying Loop Trick and the “Double Loop Spin”(space limitations sometimes do not allow for all).

Puppets:

Puppets are possible, especially for younger audiences, but there are additional requirements to do this and we would have to talk it over first and possibly add additional fees.   I often use them in Southern California for preschool and K-3 groups.