Contract Personnel • Inducted 2015 *Inducted as a pair with Byron Hendricks. The Hendricks Brothers – identical twins Byron and Lee – entertained rodeo audiences from 1940 into the mid-1960s, with a variety of acts that included daredevil Roman riding, bridle-less jumps, dancing horses and dogs. The Flying Twins Act, with Byron and...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2015 *Inducted as a pair with Lee Hendricks. The Hendricks Brothers – identical twins Byron and Lee – entertained rodeo audiences from 1940 into the mid-1960s, with a variety of acts that included daredevil Roman riding, bridle-less jumps, dancing horses and dogs. The Flying Twins Act, with Byron and Lee...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2003 Like many contract performers, Cecil Cornish began his rodeo career riding bucking horses and roping. However, his special ability to train animals and his aptitude for entertaining soon led him to what would be a lifetime of performing as a rodeo specialty act. Born, Sept. 28,...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2002 Jay Sisler didn’t plan a career in rodeo. Born Feb. 20, 1926, in Gem County, Idaho, he was breaking horses for a living with the help of two cattle dogs – Stub and Shorty – when the promoter of a rodeo offered him $10 to perform...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2002 Quail Dobbs always wanted to be a cowboy. When he was required to write a school paper on an admirable person, he chose rodeo icon Jim Shoulders while everyone else in the class selected a movie star. Dobbs, born Aug. 27, 1941, in Albany, Texas, began...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2002 Born Oct. 16, 1925, in Boston, Edith Happy Connelly first traveled West in 1934 and for a number of years alternated spending two years with her father in Boston and two years with her mother in California. Both coasts offered the opportunity for her to pursue...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2001 Jerry Olson grew up on ranches, always around horses and cattle. He entered his first rodeo at age 12, competing in bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and tie-down roping. At about the same time, the Olson family put together a horse act they contracted to local...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2014 Miles Hare spent more than three decades throwing his body in the path of 2,000-pound beasts to protect rodeo cowboys before retiring in 2008, proving himself one of the most athletic bullfighters in the history of the sport. Hare worked as a bullfighter at the National Finals...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2013 Joe Baumgartner once jokingly told a reporter, “I know more bulls than I do people,” and while that might not be strictly true, it may be safely said that very few men had a better working knowledge of bucking bulls and their tendencies. Baumgartner, of Red...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2012 Jon Taylor, or “Chipmunk” as he was often known, was one of ProRodeo’s foremost funnymen, riding into arenas from Fort Worth, Texas, to Pendleton, Ore., on a fiberglass horse named “Snort,” earning laughs from the crowd and sticking around to protect the bull riders as a...
