Livestock • Inducted 2007 Skoal Pacific Bell was raised on the Russell Ranch in Folsom, Calif., and earned the name Pacific Bell shortly after he became a bucking bull at age 4 when it became apparent that he liked to throw back his head while bucking as if he wanted to...
Bull Riding • Inducted 2007 Ronnie Rossen once told a reporter that “I just went out there with the idea of ‘Don’t let go’ that’s probably why I have so many scars on my face, I never let go when I should have.” Scars or no, it was Rossen’s brutal, unrelenting approach...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2007 Coaching from Bill Smith, Mel Hyland and later from his brother-in-law 1977 World Saddle Bronc champion J.C. Bonine got Bud Munroe off on the fast track to a career in rodeo. It was talent and hard work that turned him into one of the most...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2007 Lecile Harris got his start in rodeo as a bull rider and then a fill-in bullfighter while still in high school and developed into one of the sport's most respected funnymen over a career that has spanned more than half a century. Called the "Dean of...
Team Roping • Inducted 2007 For more than 20 years, Joe Glenn was among the sport’s elite team ropers, winning world championships in 1948 and 1967. He nearly managed the rare accomplishment of being a world champion in three decades. Glenn entered the 1959 season finale in Clayton, N.M., with a...
Notable • Inducted 2007 Michael Gaughan played a pivotal role in bringing the National Finals Rodeo to Las Vegas in 1985 and in negotiating multiple contract extensions that assured the NFR’s position as the richest prize money rodeo in the world. The total purse rose from $1.8 million to more than...
Steer Roping • Inducted 2007 The son of a National Rodeo competitor, Jim Davis had a rope in his hand from the day he was old enough to walk and never stopped practicing, working his way to status as one of the most consistent and successful steer ropers in the sport’s...
Notable • Inducted 2007 Doug Corey has taken a lead role in crafting many of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s animal welfare guidelines and programs in his more than 25 years of service to the organization. He authored the “Guide to Veterinary Services at PRCA Rodeos” and serves on the PRCA...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2007 While never too keen about being around rodeo stock, Dorothy Apodaca loved rodeo people and devoted 22 years of her life (1948-70) to traveling around the country in their service as a rodeo secretary. Traveling six months each year and about 30,000 road miles Apodaca took responsibility...
