Noon Lecture Series: Convict Cowboys: Texas Prison Rodeo
The Heritage Society’s Noon Lecture Series features Mitchel Roth, discussing Convict Cowboys. Thursday, May 17 at noon. Convict Cowboys is the tale of the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against…
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