Falkland Celebrates Century Event

The Falkland Stampede celebrates a major milestone this long weekend.

It’s the 100th anniversary of the event that manager Jason Churchill says started as a picnic in 1919 to celebrate soldiers making their way home at the end of World War 1.

“Somebody brought a horse that couldn’t be broke and a cowboy who had never been bucked off, and made the first official bronc rider at the Falkland Stampede. And the next year it got bigger and bigger.”

Churchill says the three day event will kick off with a re-enactment of a “bucking horse drive” Saturday morning at 11:40.