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On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texans have never needed an excuse to rope and ride. But a bygone event from the past was among the most unique and controversial gatherings in the state’s long history of rodeo.

During the brutality of the Huntsville Prison Rodeo, Eddie Macon (John Schneider) takes a hard fall off his horse, only to use the ensuing chaos to stage a daring escape. It is a gorgeously gritty ...

Another piece of Texas history was razed in mid-January when bulldozers unceremoniously demolished the prison rodeo arena in Huntsville, but the memory of the event rides on. Demolition crews are ...