Cowboys’ Christmas Ball. The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball is an annual event in Anson, Texas, based on a nineteenth-century ballad. A frontier dance at Anson impressed William Lawrence Chittenden so much ...

ANSON — She looked 138 years-old. A small crack in her body, most of the inlaid pear on the back of the instrument missing, her finished edges looking worn, it was easy to believe this violin had ...

Western singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey brings his Cowboy Christmas concert and ball back to the Bell County Expo Center on Saturday and while some may raise eyebrows at the intersection of ...

"The Cowboy Christmas Ball is probably one of the greatest American traditions that's been overlooked," Murphey said. "That's why I put together a show that honors it. It's a really nice production ...

ANSON – She looked 138 years-old. A small crack in her body, most of the inlaid pear on the back of the instrument missing, her finished edges looking worn, it was easy to believe this violin had ...