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SANTA CLARITA, CALIF.–One of the highlights to the Cowboy Festival this weekend in Santa Clarita is chuckwagon cooking. Peach cobbler is a specialty that people line up to taste! The chuckwagon historically served cowboys out on the range, carrying necessary supplies for meals prepared under the open skies.

The weekend Cowboy Festival takes place in Los Angeles County on the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio where famed cowboy flicks have been filmed. Re-enactments of gun battles, special tours of the Ranch and a variety of activities throughout the weekend go from April 19 – 22, 2012. Free parking at the Cowboy Festival Shuttle Site located at 13th and Railroad Ave, Santa Clarita, CA. Special dinners and tours are separately ticketed.  Festival ticket: $20 adult, $10 child.  Call: (661) 250-3735 or cowboyfestival.org

Cowboy Festival Highlights:

• Over 20 well known Western-themed performers
• Cowboy Couture Fashion Show  April 19, 2012
• Melody Ranch Western Movies with Dinner Under the Stars  April 20, 2012
• Cowboy Festival opens doors  April 21-22, 2012  – with street shows, living history, medicine show, gun spinning, old time banjo, Gold Rush Food Court, Cowboy Poetry, Storytelling, Western Music
• Old Town Hoedown with Cody Bryant and The Riders of the Purple Sage April 21, 2012
• Cowboy Church (off-site) April 22, 2012

Note: California officially celebrates the National Day of the Cowboy the 4th Saturday in July!