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Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
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Prescott, Arizona, is preparing for the 1920 Frontier Days contests on July 2, 3, 4, and 5, offering over $10,000 in prizes for cowboy sports like broncho riding and bull dogging, backed by local business and professional men.
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Prescott, the "mile high city" of Arizona, famed as a frontier town and for the hospitality of its people, is now preparing actively for the big 1920 Frontier day contests, which will be held July 2, 3, 4 and 5. At that time over $10,000 in cash prizes will be given for the sports of the range, including broncho riding, bull riding, bull roping, calf-tying, rangeland races, pony express, cowgirls' pony express, cow-pony races, bull dogging, wild horse races, together with rip-roaring specialties with man against beast.
The Prescott Frontier Days association is backed by the leading business and professional men of Prescott and every dollar advertised is every dollar paid. This contest ranks with the best in the United States for the fair, square manner in which the officials manage the contest. The Frontier Days association has been in existence in Prescott for 32 years and since the year 1888 there has always been held in the city among the pines, cowboy contests which attract hundreds of visitors from the southern section of Arizona as well as from every part of the state and interested spectators from one end of the world to the other.
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Prescott, Arizona
Event Date
July 2, 3, 4 And 5, 1920
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over $10,000 in cash prizes will be given
Event Details
Prescott is preparing for the big 1920 Frontier day contests, including broncho riding, bull riding, bull roping, calf-tying, rangeland races, pony express, cowgirls' pony express, cow-pony races, bull dogging, wild horse races, and specialties with man against beast. The Prescott Frontier Days association, backed by leading business and professional men, has existed for 32 years since 1888 and attracts visitors from Arizona and worldwide.