All-Around • Inducted 2001 Paul Carney grew up working with stock and took great pride in breaking horses. His interest in school was mostly confined to sports and he was known to skip school to attend a rodeo or stock show. Every year he attended Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days, and at...
All-Around • Inducted 2000 Chuck Sheppard, born April 16, 1916, in Globe, Ariz., went to his first rodeo at 16. “I won some money, had fun doing it and I think that’s what amazed me so much.” From that point on Sheppard’s life revolved around rodeo. He grew up a cowboy,...
All-Around • Inducted 2000 Ty Murray’s childhood goal was to be the best cowboy ever and to be the first cowboy to beat the record of six world all-around titles set by Larry Mahan and matched by Tom Ferguson. His path to roughstock greatness began at age 2, riding calves. He...
All-Around • Inducted 1999 Tom Ferguson’s record and accomplishments set high standards for the ProRodeo cowboys who have followed in his footsteps. The Oklahoma native was the first cowboy to win more than $100,000 in a single season, to earn $1 million in career earnings and to capture six consecutive all-around...
All-Around • Inducted 1995 Fritz Truan, the cowboy soldier, rode the tough broncs and won the big rodeos. He started his rodeo career in the early 1930s, joining the Turtles in 1936. He won the prestigious Madison Square Garden saddle bronc riding title in 1939 and capped the year by claiming...
All-Around • Inducted 1993 His first rodeo was in Butte, Montana at age 6 – he rode one calf and was bucked off the other. Reynolds came by his rodeo interest and ability naturally. Both his mother and father rode saddle broncs and his brothers rodeoed. Reynolds was about 15 when he...
World Championships: 5 All-Around: 1985, 1986, 1987 Bareback Riding: 1985, 1986 National Finals Rodeo Average Champion All-Around: 1986, 1987, 1988 Bareback Riding: 1984, 1986 Rookie of the Year Bareback Riding: 1980 Olympic Medals Silver - Saddle Bronc Riding - 1988 Calgary Stampede Challenge Cup Bronze - Bareback Riding - 1988 Calgary Stampede Challenge Cup RAM Circuit Finals Rodeo Champion All-Around: 1989 Saddle Bronc...
All-Around • Inducted 1991 His entire rodeo career spanned only eight years, but Louis Brooks was known as one of the best all-around cowboys ever. When he started, he entered all three roughstock events and won. Later, Brooks began to specialize, giving up bull riding. “When I quit the bulls, my...
All-Around • Inducted 1990 His rodeo career began when Gerald Roberts was 13. He ran away to join a wild west show and was hooked. Four years later, Roberts was riding bucking horses and bulls in the Cowboys Turtle Association. Roberts competed in all three roughstock events. Saddle bronc riding was his...
All-Around • Inducted 1989 Many consider Gene Rambo the most versatile cowboy ever. Born in San Miguel, Calif., in 1929, Rambo competed in all three roughstock events (bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding) and all four timed events (steer wrestling, team roping, tie-down roping and steer roping). More importantly...
