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carried on by the farm youth programs, county agents, and agricultural colleges, the American Royal helps groove the thinking of stockmen along solid lines.
Kansas Citians put so much into the American Royal because their prosperity is closely linked to the farm and livestock industries.
"A cattleman," as one Kansas City businessman points out, "can take his stock to any one of three or four markets and get about the same amount of money. Consequently, he'll go to the market he likes — and that whole town profits. If he comes to Kansas City he may spend a few days at a hotel, patronise the restaurants, shows, and bars. He may make some other purchases; and if his wife comes along, you \now she will.
'The American Royal has made thousands of friends for our livestock market, and the show and the spirit of friendliness of the community help keep us on top.""
Kansas City is a grain and livestock center, but it's also a big distributing point with several outstanding industries of its own. Not only do raw materials of the farm move into and out of Kansas City, but manufactured goods from the East arrive for par
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celling out to trading towns in the agricultural regions.
The livestock show began in 1882 in Riverview park, an area long since absorbed by the horse and mule division of the Kansas City Stockyards Company. In 1888 the show took the name of the National Hereford Cattle show and was held in a tent in proximity to the stockyards. An early livestock authority commented that the Kansas City show, which was held under canvas, compared favorably with the British Royal Livestock Show. So, around the turn of the century, Walter Neff, editor of the Drovers Telegram, suggested the show be called the "American Royal." That has been its name ever since.
The horse show grew out of popular sentiment to send members and horses of the Kansas City fire department to London and Paris in 1894. Funds were needed, and Tom Bass, famous Negro horseman who had won honors at the World's Fair in Chicago the previous year, suggested a horse show as a means of helping defray the expenses. Staged near Fifteenth and Lydia, the show was a big success. In London, Kansas City's own Dan and Joe, a famous pair of Arabian horses, established a world's record that's never been equalled.
When the livestock and horse shows were later combined, a permanent area was built by the Stockyards Company, but the show outgrew its quarters. Old Convention Hall was the site of the American Royal a few years; and Electric Park, once. In 1921 the Chamber of Commerce raised $100,000 and the stockyards