Livestock • Inducted 2011 War Paint, the product of a registered Quarter Horse stud and a wild pinto mare, was raided by Orie Summers on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon and became the greatest saddle bronc horse of his generation. As part of the Christensen Brothers string, War Paint was voted...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2011 J.W. Stoker built a career spanning more than seven decades by being equally adept as a trick rider and trick roper. He started when he was 9 years old under the tutelage of Pinky Barnes, who worked in Wild West shows and the movies. Stoker took...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2011 Known among his peers as the “Shetland Stud” or the “Banty Cowboy,” Burel Mulkey had strength that belied his 5-6, 165 pound stature, allowing him to excel at a time when saddle bronc riders had to stay on for 12 seconds (10 indoors) to earn...
Notable/Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2011 As Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Keith Martin set the bar for all rodeo committees when San Antonio became the first $1 million regular-season rodeo in 2007. At the same time, he was pushing ProRodeo toward a...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2011 Lan LaJeunesse made a spectacular debut at the 1999 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo by placing in seven of 10 rounds and shattering NFR bareback riding records with 813 points on 10 horses and earnings of $99,487 on his way to a dramatic world championship victory over...
Deadwood, South Dakota • Inducted 2011 From 1998 to 2010, the Deadwood Days of ’76 Rodeo won the PRCA Rodeo Committee of the Year Award 11 time, the first four in the Small Outdoor Rodeo category and all seven of the Medium Rodeo Committee Awards from when that category was created...
