PRORODEO Sports News - June 1, 2026

The Buc Days parade and festival continued to grow in the 1960s as seen in this photo in downtown Corpus Christi during the parade in 1965. Photo Courtesy of the Buccaneer Commission

educational and cultural events for the surrounding population. In the early 1990s, Buc Days sought to expand its footprint in the area and find additional revenue sources to support its philanthropic work in town. The answer from several committee members: start a rodeo. After the proposal to launch the rodeo, a group of seven, David Crow, Bill Lath rop, Pat Horne, Jeff Lundquist, Robert Anderson, Tommy Dubois and Fred Dotts, formed the original Buc Days Rodeo com mittee and hit the ground running to try and make it happen. Their first call, eight time PRCA Bull Riding World Champion and rodeo icon Donnie Gay. “David Crow was a rancher, and he fol lowed rodeo,” Dotts recalled of those early conversations amongst the group tasked with starting the rodeo.

Frontier Rodeo’s top-tier livestock ready for performances at the 2026 Rodeo Corpus Christi at the Hilliard Center Arena.

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