Each year the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver hosts the top steer from the National Western Stock Show.  This year’s top steer was deemed too skittish to make a solo appearance in the ornate hotel, so his runner-up came along for company.  I interviewed the hotel general manager, Miss Colorado Rodeo, the boy who raised Titan, and my friend Michael Drummy and his sister-in-law, among others.  I love this event for combining Denver’s elegance with its cow country history.