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Sarpy County Fair offers horses, pickups and Fishheads.

Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)

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Byline: Jane Palmer

Jul. 27--Ride 'em, rope 'em and show 'em.

The Sarpy County Fair highlights cowboy skills and farming talents in a festival atmosphere that includes music, dances, 4-H exhibits, a parade and a demolition derby.

A 4-H horse show Saturday and Sunday hints of the rodeo to come the next weekend. Free rides on a mechanical bull, also next weekend, let the greenhorns get a feel for rodeo action.

All-terrain vehicles -- the horses of the space age -- move to the arena for another kind of rodeo on Aug. 6.

Trucks and tractors, keys to modern farming, get their fair share of attention. One tractor competition is for ...

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