Notable • Inducted 2025 It is no secret that South Dakota has produced some of the best saddle bronc riders in the business. Tom Miller fits right in. The ranch-raised cowboy started in rodeo at the age of nine. He competed for the Sturgis High School Rodeo Team in multiple events....
Rodeo Committee • Class of 2025 The Livermore Stockmen’s Rodeo started to raise the $1,200 state assessment to aid in the efforts to fight World War I. President of the Livermore Stockmen’s Protective Association, John McGlilnchey, appointed a local committee to find a location for the event. A portion of the...
Barrel Racing • Inducted 2025 She grew up on the legendary 916 Ranch in New Mexico and was named Miss Rodeo America in 1963 (Joyce Shelley) after winning the coveted horsemanship award. Then in 1970 she won the WPRA World Barrel Racing World Title, becoming the first woman to accomplish both...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2025 Jeffrey Collins grew up competing in wrestling, not rodeo. His first time in the arena wasn’t until his freshman year of high school. Yet from that first ride, he was hooked. Collins continued competing in high school rodeo in bareback and bull riding. He won the...
Rodeo Producer • Inducted 2025 Mack Altizer grew up on a ranch near Del Rio, Texas. Taking after his father, World Champion Steer Roper Jim Bob Altizer, he competed in calf roping, team roping, and steer wrestling in the American Junior Rodeo Association and the National High School Rodeo Association. Altizer...
Barrel Racing • Inducted 2024 Jeana Day of Woodward, Oklahoma, etched her name in the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) history books winning the barrel racing world title in 1974. A six-time NFR qualifier, she also finished as reserve world champion four times (1970-73) prior to capturing the world title. She...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2023 “Bullfighting is one of the most unselfish things a person can do. For me to offer my own safety and well-being for that of another human being – that is one of the greatest sacrifices one person can make for another.” Darrell Diefenbach made this statement...
Bareback • Inducted 2024 The son of five-time World Champion Lewis Feild did not have to become a World Champion Bareback Rider; he could have been a champion skier, wrestler, or basketball player. But it was the adrenaline of bareback riding that outshone the other sports and drew Kaycee Feild to...
Fort Madison, Iowa • Inducted 2024 In 1948, Santa Fe Railroad telegrapher Robert Wilken, cowboy singer Gene Autry, and banker C.E. “Eddie” Richards needed something to replace the Labor Day parade and picnic. His father-in-law, Wilken, had an idea. He knew Autry’s livestock had to be rested during the long train...
Barrel Racing • Inducted 2024 Marlene Eddleman McRae grew up in Ordway, Colorado, wanting to be a cowgirl. Her parents, Carl and Elma Schiffer, were busy building their ranching, farming and petroleum businesses, but they always had time to encourage and support her in her quest to become the best. This...
