Schedule

November 4, 2023

Arena Demonstrations

10:00 am : Presenting the Colors, B-Troop; National Anthem, Sonora Schmitt
10:05 am : B Troop 4th U.S. Cavalry (Mounted Calvary Demo)
10:45 am : Regi Richter (Horsemanship)
11:15 am : Joel Eliot & George Masek (Cattle Demo)
12 pm : Tombstone Ghost Riders (Mounted Shooting)
12:45 pm : Spanish Barb Horses
1:15 pm : B Troop 4th U.S. Cavalry (Mounted Calvary Demo)
2:00 pm : Tombstone Ghost Riders (Mounted Shooting)
2:45 pm : Joel Eliot & George Masek (Cattle Demo)
3:30 pm : Regi Richter (Horsemanship)

Cowboy Conversations

10:00 am : Mark Santiago, “Who Are You & What Are You Doing Here?: Daily Life in a Spanish Presidio in the 18th Century”
11:00 am : Dawn Moore Santiago, “’One of the Coolest & Bravest Men in the Southwest Country’: Estevan Ochoa, Hispanic-American Entrepreneur of Arizona & New Mexico”
12:00 pm : Doug Hocking, “Mining and Prospecting”
1:00 pm : Rick Collins, “Quirky Episodes of Death and Danger in the Santa Cruz Valley”
2:00 pm : Dawn Hawkins, “History of the Mescal Movie Set”
3:00 pm : Bunker DeFrance, Marty Freese, Gene Freese, “In Front & Behind the Camera”

Music Stage

Carol Markstrom
Mountain Saddle Band
Permafrost Road

November 5, 2023

Arena Demonstrations

10:00 am : Dan Judkins, “Through Arizona to California for Gold, 1848-1849”
11:00 am : Jay Van Orden, “There’s No Such Thing as an Apache”
12:00 pm : Sunshine Arrington, “Ranching From the Teenager’s Perspective”
1:00 pm : Faith Boice McCabe, “The Boice Family Legacy”

Cowboy Conversations

10:00 am : Presenting the Colors, B-Troop; National Anthem, Sonora Schmitt
10:05 am : Joel Eliot (Cattle Demo)
11:00 am : Regi Richter (Horsemanship)
11:30 am : B Troop 4th U.S. Cavalry (Mounted Calvary Demo)
12:30 pm : Tombstone Ghost Riders (Mounted Shooting)
1:15 pm : Spanish Barb Horses
1:45 pm : Joel Eliot (Cattle Demo)
2:30 pm : Tombstone Ghost Riders (Mounted Shooting)
3:15 pm : Regi Richter (Horsemanship)

Western Authors

John Buzzard
Doug Hocking
Lewis Kirts
John McLaughlin

Date : November 4 - 5, 2023

Location : Empire Ranch Foundation - 16801 E Empire Ranch Rd, Sonoita, AZ 85637.

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