Indian Rodeo Association Turquoise Silver Gold Trophy Belt Buckle.

This Custom Made Turquoise Silver Gold Rodeo Trophy Belt Buckle can be custom made just for you. This Trophy Buckle is made from shining Sterling Silver. This Sterling Silver Buckle has been engraved with plenty of traditional old western floral designs. This Trophy Buckle features a Jewelers Gold image of a bull riding rodeo cowboy. Plus, this trophy buckle has a Turquoise chip inlay design of the Indian Rodeo Association logo. This particular buckle commemorates the 2005 All Indian Rodeo of Holbrook, Arizona. This Trophy Buckle was made in our shop by master buckle maker JR Jackson. This buckle is 3-3/4" wide and 4-1/2" long. The keeper is 1-1/2" wide.

The cowboy was born in 1866 with the first herd of Texas longhorns trailed across hundreds of miles of wild and dangerous country, filled with predators and hostile Indians, to the wide open town of Abilene.... created by the Kansas Pacific Railroad as the western frontier railhead for shipping cattle East. From that time on the big Texas cattle drives fed the market for a beef-hungry America. Six hundred thousand cattle came up the Texas trail in 1871 in herds of about 2,000 each led by a wild and reckless and tough bunch of young men with great courage and fortitude. Huge numbers of longhorn cattle had multiplied in Texas after the Civil War, the result of few predators, few fences and plenty of grass and water. They ran wild while Texas men went off to fight for the Confederacy. Cow-gathering was a challenge but getting a herd all the way to the Kansas railroad paid big. Early cowboys had very little grub (mostly corn meal and salted bacon,) used homemade saddles and chaps, no tents or tarps, braided their own rope from horsehair, and bragged they could go any place a cow could, and stand anything a horse could. Lay on your saddle blanket and cover with a coat was the Texas trail bed. The twelve-inch-barrel Colt was necessary equipment. Strong, lightweight and wiry men who were persevering and loyal defined a new American spirit of freedom and independence. Mothers shared great pride in seeing their sons grow up to be cowboys.