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The Annual Harvest Fair has loads of fun planned for kids of all ages! Games and rides await every member of the family. Face-painting, pinatas, carnival booths, pony rides, fun bounce house and much much more will be here for the youngsters to enjoy. Our children's event change annually. You never know what fun and mischief can be had at the Harvest Fair.

Children can dress as their favorite old west character and enjoy the Harvest Fair. Watch for more information on a Children's Costume Contest. This is your chance to dress like a cowboy, cowgirl, senorita or vaquero. Dress in your favorite Old West Traditional, Ethnic, TV Old West Character, or Historical costume.


Pocahontas enjoys a sarsaparilla	The Lone Ranger and Annie Oakley

Take your "churn" at making butter with Code of the West. They've milked the cows and brought the cream to Harvest Fair for you to turn the handle on the butter churn to make fresh homemade butter. But be patient...sometimes it takes almost an hour! But when it does...hang onto your cowboy hats, it tastes so good on a cracker you'll be coming back for more!

Do you see all those cowboys walking around Harvest Fair looking like they've been on the trail for months at time? You can tell them to send their dirty shirts to the camp laundry. While you're at it, why not roll up your sleeves and lend that laundress a hand at the washboard! You can scrub the laundry, turn that wringer and help get those cowboys cleaned up!

Boys on a ranch learned at a young age how to rope a calf. Come to Harvest Fair and one of our cowboys will show you how it's done and even give you a chance to try it out yourself. (Don't worry, our calves ain't real!)

Girls in the old west learned to sew starting at age four! At Harvest Fair we can get you girls started on an easy sewing lesson.

Boys and girls were always helping out at home, especially during apple harvest. Kids spent fun times in the kitchen using that new gadget called an apple peeler. They turned a handle and watched the apple go round and round as the gadget peeled the apple right before their eyes. At Harvest Fair you can use the same kind of peeler the kids used in the Old West!

Life on the ranch isn't all work. Did you ever wonder what kids in the old west did for fun without having a television or video games? There was no Chuck E. Cheese around back then! Come to Harvest and learn to play graces, ring toss and croquet. Learn how to roll a hoop and then enter a hoop rolling race! Have you ever been in a sack race, or played tug-o-war? Do you know what a Jacob's Ladder is? Come to Harvest Fair and find out!

What They Say	What They Mean
Can openers	Spurs
Hog leg	Gun
Greenbacks	Money
Bone Orchard	Cemetery
Faro	A card game of chance
Staying with the dry cows	Spending a night in town
Ruckus	Making a commotion, trouble
Scatter gun	Shotgun
Aboard	On horseback
Eatin' irons	Knives, forks and spoons
Dogies	Cows
Maverick	An unbranded cow

A cowboy's life was hard work. What did a real cowboy do? In the 1870's and 1880's, it was every boys dream to run away and "work stock," to be a cow puncher. It was almost as glamorous to a young boy, as running away to join the circus. There was no shortage of cowboys.

The average age of the cowboy was 17 to 28. The average pay for a cowpuncher at that time was only $25 to $50 per month. If a cowboy broke horses he could make as much as $5 per horse. Most cowboys only owned the clothes on their backs and their saddles; they did not even own the horse they rode.

Many cowboys were hired just to herd the cattle to the market and then laid off after the drive was over. If a cowboy was lucky to be kept on after the cattle drive, they had chores around the ranch to do. Their days started early, often rising before sunup. They would have a breakfast of coffee, sourdough biscuits, pinto beans meat and gravy, before riding off to complete their chores. Some of their chores consisted of breaking horses, branding horses and cattle, doctoring cattle, pulling the cows from bogs, line riding--riding the fence line and mending fences, and watching for rustlers. Cowboys may also have some of the farming duties of the ranch, such as growing hay, building barns, or anything else they were asked to do.

Range life was hard, with the cowpuncher spending most of his time in the saddle. He rode in wind, rain, heat waves and even blizzards to tend to his cattle. He was lucky to have one good meal a day. The cowboy slept in a bunkhouse. This could be a small log cabin or a sod shack. When he returned to his bunkhouse, in summer the bedding would crawl with lice and bugs. Snakes and rats would be attracted to the house for the shade. In the winter, the cowboy would put newspaper over the cracks in the house to keep the wind and cold out.

You did not see many women riding the range. There were a few cowgirls that left their mark on history. It was hard for a woman to earn the respect of men during that time period.

Riding the range was not as glamorous as you might have thought. Life today is much easier for children and adults.

1. Appaloosa	a. Walks lifting its legs high in the air
2. Paint Horse	b. Looks like a small Appaloosa
3. Quarter Horse	c. The mount of the Spanish Conquistador
4. Tennessee Walking Horse	d. Braying can carry up to two miles
5. Paso Fino	e. Can also be called a Pinto
6. Andalusion	f. The "Perfect Cow Pony"
7. American Saddlebred	g. Cannot have babies
8. Mule	h. The War Horse for Europe
9. Burro	i. Known as the "spotted" horse
10. Pony of America	j. Used by Confederate Generals during the Civil War

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Petting Zoo	I won a fishy	Riding the bull


Dime Toss	Bull Riding		Pong Fishing