Contract Personnel • Inducted 2011 J.W. Stoker built a career spanning more than seven decades by being equally adept as a trick rider and trick roper. He started when he was 9 years old under the tutelage of Pinky Barnes, who worked in Wild West shows and the movies. Stoker took...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2010 Rex Dunn was selected to work three National Finals Rodeos (1983, 1985-86), two Canadian Finals Rodeos and 13 circuit finals over a 16-year professional bullfighting career in which his deceptively effortless style earned him the nickname “Mr. Smooth.” He twice finished second in the Wrangler Bullfighting standings...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2008 *Inducted as a pair with Leon Adams. For parts of five decades, the husband-and-wife team of Leon and Vicki Adams entertained rodeo fans all over the world with their horsemanship, innovative flair and skill in training animals. Leon Adams received the PRCA Specialty Act of the Year...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2008 *Inducted as a pair with Vickie Adams. For parts of five decades, the husband-and-wife team of Leon and Vicki Adams entertained rodeo fans all over the world with their horsemanship, innovative flair and skill in training animals. Leon Adams received the PRCA Specialty Act of the Year...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2007 Lecile Harris got his start in rodeo as a bull rider and then a fill-in bullfighter while still in high school and developed into one of the sport's most respected funnymen over a career that has spanned more than half a century. Called the "Dean of...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2007 While never too keen about being around rodeo stock, Dorothy Apodaca loved rodeo people and devoted 22 years of her life (1948-70) to traveling around the country in their service as a rodeo secretary. Traveling six months each year and about 30,000 road miles Apodaca took responsibility...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2006 Rob Smets has been among the elite professional bullfighters for many years and with his induction into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, he will forever be remembered as one of the best in the business. Smets, born on September 11, 1959, in Palo Alto, California, joined the...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2005 Slim Pickens was born Louis Bert Lindley Jr. in Kingsburg, California, on June 29, 1919. He started entering rodeos at 14, much to his father’s dismay. To hide his activities, Pickens entered under a different name every week. One day, he asked “the feller in charge...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2004 During a career that has spanned more than three decades, Bob Tallman has announced nearly 15,000 rodeo performances in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. His gravel-laced baritone and his story-telling prowess are legendary in ProRodeo. In recent years Tallman has become the...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2004 June Bull Ivory, born June 17, 1931, worked tirelessly for decades with her late husband, Hall of Famer Buster Ivory, to make rodeo bigger and better. Outspoken and opinionated, Ivory’s best quality was her big heart. She never failed to help a friend in need and...
