Weekly rodeo series hangs up spurs

As the Double Bar G Rodeo (then the Outlaw Saloon Rodeo Series) wrapped up its first summer in 1998, Dennis and Maxleene Goodwine told the Pine Bluffs Post they looked forward to being back the next summer, and for 17 more years, they were.

That final August night in 1998, spectators from England, France, Germany and the Czech Republic were in the stands to watch the rodeo that defined a summer Friday night in Pine Bluffs.

Now, that 18-year tradition is coming to an end, Dennis Goodwine told the Post Monday.

"We enjoyed doing it. I hate to see us quit," Goodwine said.

Goodwine said with the lo...