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Texas Prison Rodeo: A Wild Legacy | Texas News
For over fifty years, Texas prisoners thrilled crowds of up to 20,000 at an outlaw rodeo held just outside the Walls Unit—where inmates risked life and limb in wild events like snatching cash off bull horns, two even died, and only two ever tried to escape by blending in with the crowd. As state funding dried up and officials lost interest, the final rodeo in 1986 marked the end of a dangerous, dusty chapter where prison walls briefly gave way to Wild West spectacle. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:advertise@thednn.ai…
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