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The Checotah Roughriders led the grand entry on both nights of the Roy LeBlanc Okmulgee Invitational Rodeo. Kenneth LeBlanc, the event's coordinator, said there's always been a following but more people have been drawn to the event. “Now I get so many calls from people in Maryland and all over the United States saying it’s on their bucket list. They’re coming. They want to be here,” he said.

217 Today: At America’s longest-running Black rodeo, ‘real cowgirls and cowboys’ carry on a rich history

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