Notable • Inducted 2019 A three-year-old Jerome Robinson announced that he intended to become a bull rider while attending the National Western Stock Show with his grandmother. At age fifteen, after years of family discouragement, the trophy for winning a horse race with his father was permission to pursue a rodeo...
Notable • Inducted 2018 Walt Garrison was two types of cowboy, a fullback with the Dallas Cowboys and a ProRodeo competitor. Garrison grew up in Lewisville, Texas, where he spent his youth riding horses and steers. He competed in high school rodeo in bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping and steer...
Notable • Inducted 2017 Bob Ragsdale was an all-around Montana cowboy, competing in steer wrestling, as well as calf roping and team roping. Qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo on 22 separate occasions, Ragsdale never won a world title, though his impact on rodeo has been profound. Ragsdale, the Montana High School All-Around...
Notable • Inducted 2016 Sometimes referred to as the Jackie Robinson of professional bull riding, Myrtis Dightman made history in 1964 when he became the first African-American to compete in the National Finals Rodeo and he went on to compete on rodeo’s biggest stage six more times in a brilliant career that...
Notable • Inducted 2015 Jack Hannum was a five-time qualifier for the National Finals Rodeo and a longtime administrator with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. He is largely credited with elevating the PRCA judging system to the major-league level. Hannum made his big breakthrough as a competitor in his first full year on...
Notable/Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2012 Harold “Hal” Littrell is known as “Mister Rodeo” in Colorado Springs, Colo., with more than 50 years of service to the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo and a long record of support for the PRCA and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Recruited by his employer, Exchange National...
Notable/Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2011 As Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Keith Martin set the bar for all rodeo committees when San Antonio became the first $1 million regular-season rodeo in 2007. At the same time, he was pushing ProRodeo toward a...
Notables/Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2010 Often identified as the most talented bull rider never to win a world title, Denny Flynn, of Charleston, Ark., qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 10 times (1974-82, 1985) and set a record for most bull riding average titles won at the NFR (1975, 1981-82), later...
Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2009 Just 15 years, 11 months old when he qualified for the National Finals Rodeo the first time in 1962 – the second-youngest competitor in NFR history – Ace Berry remained a fixture there into the mid-1970s, competing at both ends of the arena. The Oakdale, Calif.,...
Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2008 One of rodeo’s most respected and well-liked officials, Ronald (Buddy) Lytle helped develop and write the PRCA’s judging handbook, professionalizing the sport. Lytle, of Byhalia, Miss., became a judge after a competitive career as a tie0down roper and steer wrestler, working 24 National Finals Rodeos as...
