Greeley, Colorado • Inducted 2014 The Greeley Stampede, created in 1922 as a tribute to local potato farmers – a one-day event with total attendance of 2,500 – has grown into an internationally-acclaimed celebration of Western heritage that runs nearly two weeks and attracts more than 450,000 people annually to Northern...
Clovis, California • Inducted 2014 In the spring of 1914, the Clovis (Calif.) Women’s Club held a fundraiser which featured food and games. Ranchers and farmers effected a temporary arena by circling their wagons in a vacant lot for competition in mule riding and calf roping. That was the start of a...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2013 Considered by many to be the greatest Canadian rodeo cowboy of all time, Kenny McLean, an Okanagan Indian from British Columbia, had a career distinguished by its volume, versatility and singular consistency. The PRCA Rookie of the Year in 1961, McLean won the saddle bronc...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2013 Chuck Logue was a major figure in his era, qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo 11 times in 12 seasons (1982-87, 1989-93), winning the world championship in 1990 and the NFR average title twice (1985 and 1990). Over the years, Logue earned a reputation for...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2013 Rex “Bud” Kerby is a second-generation ProRodeo Hall of Fame selection, joining his father, D.A. “Swanny” Kerby, who was also inducted as a stock contractor in 1997. The Kerbys’ Bar T Rodeo Inc., has been a family operation since 1945, based in Moab, Utah, initially...
All-Around • Inducted 2013 In a rodeo career that lasted 44 years, John Bowman earned the respect of his peers for a level of versatility and skill that has rarely been matched in the history of the Cowboy Sport. Bowman was the all-around world champion in 1936, and twice won gold buckles...
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...
Livestock • Inducted 2012 Khadafy Skoal was the first Wyoming-born-and-raised horse to be voted PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year in 1990 and went on to win the award twice more for Powder River Rodeo in 1995 and 1996. Starting in 1989, the blue roan gelding went to the Wrangler National...
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...
Bull Riding • Inducted 2012 Frank Schneider always said it was “probably environment” that got him into a career in professional rodeo because his older brother, Johnie, was already a top hand when he started out riding calves. What carried him to the elite level of the sport all resided within...
