HOUSTON — Students, staff and faculty at St. Ambrose Catholic School in Houston cheered as the Sam Houston Trail Ride clopped down Mangum Road and made their annual stop at the northwest Houston parochial school and parish.
Students, pre-kindergarten to eighth grade, greeted the wagons, horses and riders, with many clad in their finest — and sometimes outsized — Western wear to mark Feb. 28 as Go Texan Day. A hat-tip to Texas history, the annual city-wide designation rallies communities across the region to celebrate Texas heritage and signals the beginning of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. St. Ambrose is just one of several parishes and Catholic schools in the Archdiocese that have encounters with trail ride groups across the region.
