modern-day cowboy games

by david holloway

During a Labor Day party at his ranch in 1985, Dan Eoff came up with the idea of racing chuckwagons as a way to spice up the evening. The partygoers organized themselves into eight teams, created a makeshift course and competed against each other. Since then the party has grown into a week of festivities known as The National Championship Chuckwagon Races, an annual event that draws thousands of participants and spectators to Clinton, Arkansas, for bronco riding, dancing, and, of course, the now hugely popular chuckwagon races.