Cowboy Up! Festival 2016

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Jill Bock, Staff

Despite Saturday's dreary skies, the 2016 Cowboy Up! Festival drew people to downtown Sikeston. There visitors enjoyed not only the Farmers Market but a number of booths, rides, a petting zoo, music and other activities.

Despite Saturday's dreary skies, there was still plenty to do at the Downtown Historic Sikeston's CowboyUp! festival. As the train travels with its passengers around the Depot, Hannah, right, and Halyn Munday work on necklaces featuring rodeo symbols.
Halyn Munday keeps her eyes on the bead as she creates a necklace at the Sikeston Depot Museum's craft booth which was part of Saturday's Cowboy Up! festival.
Kane Thurman made friends with a few young goats at the petting zoo Saturday. The petting zoo was just one of the activities available to the public at the CowboyUp! festival in Downtown Sikeston.
Jerry Stroup with Western Rose Ranch waits for his coach to fill up with visitors to the Sikeston Cowboy Up! festival Saturday in Downtown Sikeston. Stroup and his team recently returned from Cheyenne, Wyo., where they took part in Pioneer Days.

Saturday's Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Parade was cancelled due to rainy weather but that didn't stop fans from coming downtown for the other activities. In addition to the Farmers Market there were a number of western-related booths and activities in the Legion Park in Downtown Sikeston. Youngsters also still had the opportunity to watch as re-enactors recreated a robbery at the Sikeston Depot.
Re-enactors recreated a moment from the wild West during Saturday's Cowboy Up! festival Saturday in the American Legion Park. The sheriff and his posse were able to outgun the outlaws and save the day.
The "outlaws" prepare to do battle with the sheriff and his posse during a re-enactment at the Sikeston Depot as part of the Cowboy Up! festival Saturday in downtown Sikeston.
The sheriff and his posse move in to "retake" the caboose and capture the outlaws during a re-enactment Saturday as part of the Sikeston Depot Museum's CowboyUp! festival.
The sheriff, left, moves to surround the outlaws as the circle to the back of the caboose during a re-enactment at the Sikeston Depot's Cowboy Up! festival Saturday in downtown Sikeston.
Youngsters found the perfect perch to watch re-enactors stage the robbery of the caboose next to the Sikeston Depot Museum. The re-enactment was part of Saturday's CowboyUp! festival.