The meetings end with announcements about the consensus reached - often cosmetic - and all the leaders get their picture taken, last time in cowboy gear.

Exhibits include historic photographs, saddles, rodeo artifacts and cowboy gear.

My father insisted I join the rodeo, even bought me cowboy gear from Kmart.

Yes, Perry wears more cowboy gear than a six-year-old boy on Halloween.

From Holsters to Jewelry "This book goes way beyond the scope of cowboy gear," he said.

"This book goes way beyond the scope of cowboy gear," he said.

Leather chaps, adapted from cowboy gear, were used by American bikers starting in the early 1960s.

The waiters and waitresses all wore cowboy gear.

When it was threatened with demolition several years ago, demonstrators showed up wearing cowboy gear.

People from Calgary also begin wearing cowboy hats and other cowboy gear in spirit of the event.