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Every year, a big
parade is held in Houston, Texas. On parade day, horses -- not cars -- control
the streets of the fourth-largest city in the United States.
FAMILY:
"We've never seen so many cowboys and cows and horses all together with all the
trail wagons."
Since 1938, the parade of horses, cowboys and cowgirls
has marked the beginning of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
FATHER
WITH SON: "Lots of horses, you like that? It is pretty cool, huh? Yeah!"
GIRL: "I am going to ride them when I get bigger."
The horse
riders gather in different parts of Texas, some of them hundreds of kilometers
away. They ride into Houston and camp overnight. For Santos Cruz, this is a
chance to connect with the past.
SANTOS CRUZ: "I wanted to have a
feeling of how our ancestors had to cross this prairie at one time or another
you know, when they--there was no cars."
Gerald Barkley and his friend,
Donald Kimble, come to Houston every year and meet with friends they have made
on the trail rides.
DONALD KIMBLE: "We all get together and enjoy each
other and which some of us haven't seen each other in a year, so that brings out
all the good to me."
GERALD BARKLEY: "They promote this way of life so
you know, it doesn't you know, fade away from existence."
I'm Ted
Landphair.
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