Most of the people in this episode aren’t famous. You probably won’t find their names in the record books.

That’s exactly why Beyond the Chutes went to Mountain Cove.

We went. We listened. We recorded.

In McLemore Cove near Chickamauga, Georgia, rodeo history runs deep. Records show rodeos being held at Mountain Cove as far back as the late 1940s, and in 1953 a local newspaper reported approximately 6,000 people attending three rodeo performances there.

In 2026, the old arena is gone, but the people and the stories remain.

At the Mountain Cove Rodeo Reunion, old friends came back together to remember the miles they traveled, the people who helped them along the way, the friends who are no longer here, and the next generation carrying pieces of that life forward.

You’ll hear about nights spent driving from one r ...