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...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2005 Joe Marvel was born into ranching, horses and riding. He grew up on his family ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada. While working on the 530,000-arce family ranch, the Marvel boys – Joe, Mike and Pete – managed to develop a style for sticking to their...
Team Roping • Inducted 2005 Charles Maggini was born in 1894, on his father’s remote cattle ranch in San Benito, Calif., the youngest of eight children. The family made trips to town just once a year. He lost his dad when he was 12 to a horse-and buggy accident. Maggini’s first rodeo...
Bareback & Notable • Inducted 2005 Chris LeDoux was a bonafide, hard-to-beat cowboy long before he was an entertainer. He grew up in an Air Force family and started competing in junior rodeos in Texas, winning the all-around title at the first one he entered. He won the Wyoming high school...
All-Around Champion • Inducted 2005 Jimmie Cooper epitomizes the cowboy way of honesty, hard work and honor. Cooper filled his Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association permit at his first professional rodeo. As the most-talked-about contestant in 1980, Cooper earned that year’s Overall PRCA Rookie of the Year title, as well as Rookie...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2005 Marvin Brookman earned a reputation with friends, family and roughstock contestants as an honest gentleman in every sense of the word. Brookman started his career by culling the buckers from his father’s 500 head of horses. He developed a string of 150 head, and has since...
