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...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 2015 Although Harry Charters didn’t buy his RCA permit until 1958, at the relatively advanced age of 33, he managed to compete at an elite level for a decade. He won his only world championship as a rookie steer wrestler in 1959, and went on to put...
Livestock • Inducted 2014 Along with Kingsway Skoal and Lonesome Me, Big Bend Rodeo Company’s legendary mare Spring Fling is the only horse to be honored by the PRCA as both a Bareback and Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year. Spring Fling started out on the bareback side and received the PRCA’s...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 2014 One of the most accomplished bulldoggers of his generation, Byron Walker is part of a rare two-world championship household. He won his steer wrestling gold buckle in 1981 and his wife, Mary, was the barrel racing world champion in 2012. Trained by his father, “Whitey Bob” Walker,...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2014 The first contestant from outside North America to be inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, Glen O’Neill was the saddle bronc riding champion of his native Australia before moving to Canada as a teenager and establishing himself as an elite competitor for more than...
Nampa, Idaho • Inducted 2014 The Snake River Stampede had its humble beginnings in 1913 as a bucking contest in conjunction with the annual Harvest Festival in Nampa, Idaho – where fans stood behind ropes to take in the action – to become one of the elite regular-season stops on the...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2014 Wayne Herman looked every inch the unvanquished warrior when he collected his gold buckle as the 1992 world champion bareback rider, with six stitches in his face, a black eye, a concussion and an injured riding arm, all coming as the result of a fifth-round wreck...
Hayward, California • Inducted 2014 Harry Rowell, a rancher, businessman and philanthropist, brought the sport of rodeo to the athletic fields of the Burbank School in downtown Hayward, Calif., in 1921 and then moved it to his Dublin Canyon Ranch four years later, where it has been a fixture on the...
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...
All-Around • Inducted 2014 Pete Grubb was just the second cowboy in ProRodeo history – after Clay Carr – to win world championships at both ends of the arena. The Salmon, Idaho, cowboy won the bareback riding championship in 1938 and the team roping title (as a heeler) in 1940. He was...
