Ever since I was a kid growing up in Ogden Utah back in the early 80's, I've been fascinated by the Spanish bullfight. I even searched out books on bullfighting at the Weber County library, where I found and read "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway. I'm probably the only kid in Utah to have ever read that book. Now here we are 40 years later and I still enjoy learning about and keeping up with the bullfights.

November 24, 2022

Spanish Fork plaza de toros

Thanks to a new job I have been driving by the Spanish Fork Utah rodeo arena quite a bit lately and every time I do I keep saying to myself how much it looks like a Plaza de Toros.

If you didn't know better you could easily confuse it with a bullfight arena. Technically, I would imagine they have had the American rodeo version of bullfighting there before, the ones that use, as the rodeo crowd would say, "Mexican fighting bulls".

I'm going to have to pay more attention now, if a bullfight competition does come up in Spanish Fork I'm going to have to check it out. I'd love to see a toro bravo on Utah soil.





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