VIDEO: 'Alan's Lids' custom-fitted hats 1 of many vendors at 2024 Tucson Rodeo
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Grace Trejo
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VIDEO:“I don’t do rodeos anymore,” admitted Alan Sanchez, owner of Alan's Lids, who is back at the 2024 Tucson Rodeo in as an out-of-town vendor visiting Southern Arizona for the nine-day event in February 2024. “But Tucson has a special plate in my heart." (Video by Grace Trejo/Arizona Daily Star)
Grace Trejo
Photojournalist
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“I don’t do rodeos anymore,” admitted Alan Sanchez, owner of Alan's Lids, who is back at Tucson Rodeo in 2024 as an out-of-town vendor visiting Southern Arizona for the nine-day event. “But Tucson has a special plate in my heart. Last year ... I come, and I make the most money I’ve ever made in my life in one day. At this rodeo."
Bullfighter Dusty Tuckness has made a second home out of Las Vegas, home of the annual National Finals Rodeo. But Tucson may as well be a third home, as the 10-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bullfighter of the Year is a staple at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros — Tucson Rodeo.
For the first time in the 86 years that the Tohono O'odham Nation has held its annual rodeo and fair, admission will be free to the public.
