2008 EVENT SCHEDULE
CONCURRENT SESSIONS AND CIVIC CENTER SCHEDULE

2008 CHUCK WAGON COOK-OFF

2008 SYMPOSIUM PAPERS

2008 TICKET INFORMATION

2008 PERFORMERS

2008 EXHIBITORS

2008 AMERICAN COWBOY CULTURE AWARDS RECIPIENTS

DRESS THE WEST - 100 YEARS OF WESTERN CLOTHING

LINKS TO
COWBOY / WESTERN WEBSITES

HISTORY

2008 YOUTH CONTEST

2007 ARTICLES AND INFORMATION

PARADE OF THE HORSE

THANKS & RECOGNITION

The 20th Annual
National Cowboy Symposium  & Celebration

and National Championship

Chuck Wagon Cook-Off

September 4 - 7, 2008

Lubbock Memorial Civic Center
Lubbock, Texas

Featuring Matinee and Evening Performance Headliners

   

Don Edwards                                          Sons of the San Joaquin                                      Waddie Mitchell

For Tickets and Information:

National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration
P.O. Box 6638
Lubbock, Texas 79493
(806) 798-7825 or email cowboysymposium@suddenlink.net


NCSC is always held the first weekend following Labor Day!

Plan to join us for our 21st Anniversary!

September 10-11-12-13, 2009


      Cowboy poets, musicians, storytellers, artists, historians, authors, editors. publishers, photographers, chuck wagon cooks, honest-to-goodness-cowboys and many more are heading to Lubbock to celebrate the largest presentation in the U.S. of ranching, cowboys and the western way of life.

      The annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration is one of the modern West's most exciting explorations of the traditions of the American Frontier. Your attention will be captured by poetry, music, stories, panel discussions, exhibits and trappings by and about the American Cowboy. Highlights of the event include the American Cowboy Culture Awards Show during the evening shows Friday and Saturday, the National Championship Chuck Wagon Cook-Off, a horse parade, over one hundred western performers, poets, scholars, and hundreds of exhibits covering every imaginable western product.

See our ads in Western Horseman Magazine and for more information see www.westernhorseman.com !

Host Hotel Information

You must tell the hotel you are with the National Cowboy Symposium to get these rates.

Holiday Inn Hotel & Towers
801 Avenue Q
(806)763-1200 or 800-Holiday
$74 + Tax

Radisson Hotel Lubbock (Formerly Clarion or Sheraton Four Points)
505 Avenue Q
(806)747-0171
$54 + Tax

Super 8 Hotel (New Hotel)
6511 Interstate-27
(806)771-8000
$65 + Tax

Country Inn (Near Texas Tech)
4105 19th Street
(806)795-5271
$35 + Tax

A: Lubbock Memorial Civic Ctr: 1501 Mac Davis Ln, Lubbock, TX 79401, (806) 775-2242

 

Sponsored by:

National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration, Inc. and
The American Cowboy Culture Association, Inc.

With Support from National Sponsors:
Wrangler - Greensboro, North Carolina
The Blue Bell Foundation
The Frank Dean Foundation

Local and Regional Sponsors:
Wells Fargo Bank
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock Convention & Visitors Bureau
Texas Commission on the Arts
Civic Lubbock, Inc.
The Helen Jones Foundation
The CH Foundation
The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment for the Arts
The Lubbock Area Foundation
Visit Lubbock
Wells Fargo
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock National Bank
 

Wrangler
NTS Online

Web space provided by: NTS-ONLINE, Lubbock, Texas

Comments and suggestions are welcome.
email to: cowboysymposium@suddenlink.net

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