Everett Bowman

All-Around • Inducted 1979

Winner of 10 world championships in nine years, Everett Bowman’s dynamic leadership made him one of the great rodeo contributors to the advancement of professional rodeo. Bowman, born July 12, 1899, in Hope, N.M., won his titles during a career that spanned more than 20 years. Bowman won all-around championships in 1935 and 1937; tie-down roping championships in 1929, 1935 and 1937; world steer wrestling championships in 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1938; and the world steer roping champion in 1937. When the Cowboys’ Turtle Association was founded in 1936, he was elected president, an office he held until reorganization of the CTA to the Rodeo Cowboys Association in 1945. Most of the fundamental changes in rodeo that are now the bedrock of the sport came about under Bowman’s leadership: adding entry fees to prize money, fair and impartial judging, codified rules and regulations, humane treatment of livestock and minimum standards for approval as a professional rodeo. Bowman died in 1971 in a plane crash in Arizona.

World Championships: 10

All-Around: 1935, 1937

Tie-Down Roping: 1929, 1935, 1937

Steer Wrestling: 1930, 1933, 1935, 1938

Steer Roping: 1937

Born: July 12, 1899 in Hope, New Mexico
Died: October 25, 1971 near Baghdad, Arizona

Cowboy Turtle Association President: 1937-45

California Rodeo Salinas / Salinas, CA
Steer Roping: 1937 (tie)

Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo / Cheyenne, WY
Tie-Down Roping: 1927
Steer Wrestling: 1935

Ellensburg Rodeo / Ellensburg, WA
All-Around: 1926, 1927 (tie)
Steer Wrestling: 1926, 1927, 1932
Tie-Down Roping: 1926

Reno Rodeo / Reno, NV
All-Around: 1938
Tie-Down Roping: 1937
Steer Wrestling: 1938
Team Roping: 1938

Pendleton Round-Up / Pendleton, OR
All-Around: 1932, 1935
Steer Roping: 1932, 1941 (tie)
Steer Wrestling: 1935, 1940
Tie-Down Roping: 1935

World’s Oldest Rodeo Prescott Frontier Days / Prescott, AZ
All-Around: 1932
Bull Riding: 1926
Steer Wrestling: 1926, 1932, 1933, 1936
Team Roping: 1932