Dancers join hands as a circle during the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball in Anson in 2023. This year's ball runs 8 p.m.-midnight Dec. 12-14. Murphey will play that Thursday, Dec. 12, the first night.

Pioneer Hall was built in 1940 as a permanent home for the dance as the event became more popular. Then in 1985, country artist Michael Martin Murphey put “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” to ...

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 within the community for over a century. It's ...

The dance was immortalized by Larry Chittenden, five years later after a fire consumed the hotel, when his poem “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” was published in Anson’s Texas Western newspaper.

The Deadwood Cowboy Christmas Ball, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Deadwood Pavilion, will feature decorations, food and Black Hills entertainers performing holiday favorites.

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 ...

LEAD | The 2014 Black Hills Cowboy Christmas Ball is set for Saturday, Dec. 13 at the Homestake Opera House.

Often imitated but never duplicated, the original Texas Cowboy Christmas Ball and Michael Martin Murphey returned to Anson for dancing, laughing and a bit of Christmas magic.