Contract Personnel • Class of 2022 Raised on his family’s Appaloosa horse ranch near Tickfaw, LA, Rick Young did not set out to become a rodeo clown and bull fighter. He really wanted to be a colligate football player after earning All-State accolades in both football and basketball. However, the 5’9”...
Jimmy Schumacher, 1979 Dudley J. Gaudin, 1979 Mel Lambert, 1990 Ellen Backstrom, 1995 Andy Womack, 1998 Jerry Olson, 2001 Edith Happy Connelly, 2002 June Ivory, 2004 Lecile Harris, 2007 Rex Dunn, 2010 Miles Hare, 2014 Randy Corley, 2017 Rick Young, 2022 Wick Peth, 1979 Jasbo Fulkerson, 1979 Glenn Randall,...
Bull Riding • Class of 2020 Gary William Kirby, better known as Butch, started his rodeo career at age four when he joined his brothers in a trick riding troupe led by his mother, Mildred. By 16, he had changed his specialty to bull riding. Kirby credits the agility and balance...
Rodeo Notable • Inducted 1979 A tiny lady bronc rider from the Nebraska sand-hill country, Tad Lucas was the youngest of 24 children born to a pioneer family. She rode bulls in the main streets of Cody, Neb., during World War I to raise money for the Red Cross. In 1921,...
The colorful history and equally colorful legends of professional rodeo live on at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Since the Hall’s opening in 1979, 319 people, 41 animals and 36 rodeo committees have been inducted. More than 100 individuals are...
