Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 1989 Canada’s Winston Bruce has made his mark on rodeo, not only as a contestant but also as an administrator. As a rodeo competitor, Bruce was a 10-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier in saddle bronc riding. The native of Stettler, Alberta, developed a winning style through...
Rodeo Notable • Inducted 1988 Benny Binion was born on a Texas farm in 1901 and began trading horses for a living when he was just 10 years old. Through the years, he raised some of the best bucking and pickup horses in rodeo. ProRodeo Hall of Fame stock contractors such...
Rodeo Notable • Inducted 1988 A love of horses and the cowboy lifestyle marked Malcolm Baldrige’s life. Born Oct. 4, 1922, in Omaha, Neb., Baldrige was a confirmed cowboy by the age of 7. At 20, he already had spent six summers working as a cowboy for a dollar a day...
Rodeo Notable • Inducted 1985 Born March 5, 1926, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Lex Connelly was a successful roper and steer wrestler for 11 seasons. He also served terms as team roping director and vice president of the then-titled Rodeo Cowboys Association. After he retired from competition in 1957, he was...
Rodeo Notable • Inducted 1983 In the late 1920s, Bob Crosby realized that he could make a living as a rodeo cowboy. Crosby, born in 1897 in Midland, Texas, won his first rodeo title at the age of 13. With the encouragement of Will Rogers, he entered the bigger rodeos in...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 During a 14-year period, Tornado, a Hereford-Brahma cross-breed, bucked off every cowboy – all 220 of them – who tried to ride him. Owned by legend Jim Shoulders, the 1,800-pound bull met his match, however, at the 1967 National Finals Rodeo where he was paired with ProRodeo Hall...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 Tipperary was credited with dumping 80 riders before Yakima Canutt made a qualified ride in 1920. Canutt also rode the famed bronc a second time in Belle Fourche, S.D., in 1921. The colt, which hailed from a band of thoroughbreds in the Northwest, first gained attention at...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 Rarely did cowboys make a successful ride on the bronc Steamboat. This 1,100-pound Wyoming ranchland horse first attracted public attention at the Festival of Mountains and Plains in Denver in 1900. Bronc riding in the early days of rodeo was far different from what is seen today;...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 Poker Chip Peake, an iron-gray gelding sired by the famed Quarter Horse Driftwood, was a tie-down roper’s dream horse. He had it all, perfect conformation and great “cow sense,” stopping and working a rope with such consistency each run. In 1963, the trailer he was in overturned...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 In Oscar’s first five years as a bucking bull, more than 100 cowboys tried to ride him and every one of them failed to make the eight-second horn. A bronze “Oscar” was offered by owner RSC (Rodeo Stock Contractors) to the first man to ride him. The...
