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Address: 200 Jess Jo Parkway, Branson MO
Circle B Theater
Fifteen miles outside of Rapid City, South Dakota, sits the Circle B Chuckwagon. Jay and Betty Baldwin and Jack and Beth Engel built the Circle B in the cold winter of 1975. As Jack Engel said, "It was so cold that when you drove a nail into the wood, the wood would crack like a piece of ice."
The Chuckwagon was ready to open on June l, 1976. There were 58 acres, and the Chuckwagon was added on to seat about 1,200. They had the shops, trail rides and a persian team that pulled the wagon.
In 1980, the Circle B Cowboys won the Old West Trail Foundation's William F. Cody Music Award. THis award is given annually to a composer, musical organization or performer whose music captures the essence of the Old West and its people.
On December 26, 1995, the Horn family started a modern-day caravan of five vehicles across country from Baltimore, in blizzards and blocked roads, to arrive at the Circle B on December 31, 1995. January 1, 1996, they were home. The Horn family consists of: father Kemp, a forester from Baltimore; mother Michelle, a..