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We honor and celebrate Western Heritage and work to promote the growth of Cowboy culture worldwide. The “National Day of the Cowboy” is a day set aside by the United States Senate to pay homage to our Cowboy and Western heritage.

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The mission of the National Day of the Cowboy Organization is to contribute to the preservation of Cowboy culture and western heritage so that the history and culture which the National Day of the Cowboy resolution honors, can be shared and perpetuated for the public good, through education, the arts, celebrations, gatherings, rodeos, and community activities. We also campaign for the permanent congressional passage of a Cowboy Day resolution.

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The National Day of the Cowboy organization is a nonprofit entity dedicated exclusively to contributing to the preservation of our Cowboy and Western heritage by bringing awareness to the National Day of the Cowboy, as first proclaimed in the United States Senate in 2005, then again in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The National Day of the Cowboy campaign, asking for a national day of recognition for the Cowboy and Cowgirl, was conceived by a magazine publisher who believed that the men and women at the core of our Western heritage should be honored and recognized for the substantial contributions they have made and continue to make to America's history and Western culture. In November 2004 the publisher asked Bethany Braley to organize and lead a formal campaign seeking a resolution in Congress which would officially recognize a National Day of the Cowboy. Ms. Braley contacted a former colleage in Washington, D.C., who advised her on the steps needed when pursuing a senate resolution.

Resolution 138 passed in the Senate on May 12th, 2005, naming July 23, 2005, the first official Cowboy Day. The final National Day of the Cowboy resolution, sponsored by Senator Craig Thomas(R-WY), and co-sponsored by Senators Burns (R-MT), Inhofe (R-OK), Dorgan (D-ND), Crapo (R-ID), Salazar (D-CO), Enzi (R-WY) Allard (R-CO), Baucus (D-MT), Allen (R-VA), Stevens (R-AK), Martinez (R-FL), Bingaman (D-NM), and Craig (R-ID). A few days prior to July 23, 2005, President Bush sent his letter of support for the National Day to Senator Craig Thomas. Senator Thomas and his wife, Susan, were the first to carry the offical National Day of the Cowboy flag. In 2008, the National Day of the Cowboy resolution was sponsored in the US Senate by Mike Enzi and in the US House by Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The resolution passed in both houses of Congress and also in the Arizona State Legislature making Arizona the first state to pass it. However, the Cowboy resolution is not permanent.

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