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SHOT 1/22/2003 - Rancher Virgil Lawson, 76, of Wetmore, Colo. has been coming to the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo for more than 30 years and was exhibiting Maine-Anjou Steer at the show. He said the drought has been tough on business adding, "I've never seen it this dry in my life". He uses the walking stick to lean on at points and pushes steer around with it. The National Western Stock Show is held every January at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado. First held in 1906, it is the world's largest stock show by number of animals and offers the world?s only carload and pen cattle show in the historic Denver Union Stockyards. The stock show is governed by the Western Stock Show Association, a Colorado 501 (c) 3 institution, which produces the annual National Western Stock Show in an effort to forward the association's mission: "To preserve the western lifestyle by providing a showcase for the agricultural industry through emphasis on education, genetic development, innovative technology and offering the world's largest agricultural marketing opportunities." Proceeds from the National Western Stock Show go to the National Western Scholarship Trust. The Trust awards 64 scholarships annually to students studying agriculture and medicine to practice in rural areas at colleges and universities in Colorado and Wyoming..(Photo by Marc Piscotty / © 2003)

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SHOT 1/22/2003 - Rancher Virgil Lawson, 76, of Wetmore, Colo. has been coming to the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo for more than 30 years and was exhibiting Maine-Anjou Steer at the show. He said the drought has been tough on business adding, "I've never seen it this dry in my life". He uses the walking stick to lean on at points and pushes steer around with it. The National Western Stock Show is held every January at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado. First held in 1906, it is the world's largest stock show by number of animals and offers the world?s only carload and pen cattle show in the historic Denver Union Stockyards. The stock show is governed by the Western Stock Show Association, a Colorado 501 (c) 3 institution, which produces the annual National Western Stock Show in an effort to forward the association's mission: "To preserve the western lifestyle by providing a showcase for the agricultural industry through emphasis on education, genetic development, innovative technology and offering the world's largest agricultural marketing opportunities." Proceeds from the National Western Stock Show go to the National Western Scholarship Trust. The Trust awards 64 scholarships annually to students studying agriculture and medicine to practice in rural areas at colleges and universities in Colorado and Wyoming..(Photo by Marc Piscotty / © 2003)