ANSON – She looked 138 years-old ... It was easy to believe this violin had played at the first Cowboy Christmas Ball back in 1885. From its case near the door at Pioneer Hall, the instrument ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber recognized the “Cowboy Christmas Ball at Anson in Jones County” in her memorable novel "Giant." There is also a permanent historical exhibit of the ...

Pioneer Hall is located at 2300 Ave. G in Anson. If you've been to a Cowboy Christmas ball somewhere else, the genesis of that dance was likely here in Anson. The ball's heritage has been wrapped ...

Michael Martin Murphey and his band will be on stage Dec. 16 in Anson for yet another annual Cowboy Christmas Ball. This is as much a historical recreation as a night of entertainment, and one ...

ANSON, Texas - For the 86th year, the Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball begins Thursday at historic Pioneer Hall in Anson. There will be dancing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The doors open at 8 p ...

And I’ve unearthed a lot of great stuff on the first cowboy Christmas ball. A New Yorker named Larry Chittenden in­­herited a ranch in Anson from his uncle, and when he came down to see it ...

Michael Martin Murphey’s love of combining cowboys with Christmas began more than 30 years ago in the small Texas town of Anson, where the annual Texas ... people,” Murphey said. “The Cowboy Christmas ...

Michael Martin Murphey's annual Cowboy Christmas ... archive on the Christmas Ball at Texas Tech's Southwest Collection. When representatives from the collection witnessed the Anson event in ...

But other than that, it’s an unbroken tradition.” Food and dancing The Cowboy Christmas Ball in Anson, north of Abilene, was Murphey’s point of entry into his own holiday show that has ...

Head over to the Cowboy Christmas ... shoes and drive to Anson, a small hamlet north of Abilene, for a historic tradition—the ninetieth annual Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball, at Pioneer Hall.

a concert inspired by Anson, Texas’ long-running Cowboy Christmas Ball and its blend of Christmas carols, cowboy ballads, waltzes and schottisches, a program dating from the original 1885 ball.

Texas music legend Michael Martin Murphey will bring the full version of his Cowboy ... The Christmas ball is a tradition dating back to 1885, when it was launched on Christmas night in Anson.