Big, beautiful trophy buckles long have been a part of rodeo tradition. And at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, buckles are as ubiquitous as cowboy hats. Competitors wear the trophy buckles ...

DENVER — The National Western Stock Show is the Superbowl of livestock shows, ... The trophy buckle was introduced as an acknowledgment at rodeo championships and gained momentum in the 1920s.

Clint Orms, an American metalsmith and engraver, has made an art form out of keeping men's trousers up. If you are the kind of person who is prepared to spend $50,000 or more on a belt buckle ...

The 2025 finals of the annual Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest will be at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, KS.

Western-yoke, pearl-snap plaid shirts and straight-fit jeans may currently be trending, but custom-made belt buckles will never go out of style. “It’s an item you can wear every day for the ...

CHEYENNE – It’s a time-honored tradition – the Cheyenne Frontier Days championship trophy buckle. ... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN ALBANY AND WESTERN LARAMIE COUNTIES ...

It’s every cowboy’s dream, encased in glass in front of the South Point gift shop. Judy Wagner eyes a gleaming gold belt buckle the size of a large man’s fist.

At his Murphy's Buckles of Texas booth at Reliant Center, Phillip "Bubba" Murphy took out a gold buckle engraved with an H wearing a hat and boots. "This was the first buckle I made for the rodeo ...

Jack Sweek was never much of a rodeo cowboy. But in1958, he won a belt buckle roping calves in the pro rodeo at Milton Freewater. Its the only buckle Sweek ever won. Sweek, who died recently in ...

April 11 (UPI) --A Montana-based company broke a Guinness World Record when it unveiled a giant belt buckle measuring nearly 15 feet across in Texas. Montana Silversmiths, based in Columbus, Mont ...