Promoting youth education & preserving Western heritage -- Growing baby beef show educates, entertains: 1938 to 1956 -- Expanding fair and rodeo in cramped quarters: 1957 to 1979 -- Building a new home: 1980 to 1989 -- Dreaming beyond Travis County: 1990 to 1999 -- Ramping up statewide and facing new challenges: 2000 to 2011 -- Directors emeriti -- Show leaders -- Grand champion winners and buyers -- About the research
Summary
Who would have dreamed that a one-day calf show would evolve into a top-five professional rodeo that raises millions of dollars for education? From its beginnings as a tiny 4-H event to its current role as one of Austin's largest charities, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo has grown in both size and purpose in the past seventy-five years. Here, Liz Carmack tells the story of Rodeo Austin, a nonprofit enterprise whose face reflects its agricultural heritage but whose scholarship program is at the heart of its mission. Since 1981, when organizers became fully committed to providing
