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...
Notable/Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2012 Harold “Hal” Littrell is known as “Mister Rodeo” in Colorado Springs, Colo., with more than 50 years of service to the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo and a long record of support for the PRCA and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Recruited by his employer, Exchange National...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2012 Robert Etbauer was the first of the legendary Etbauer brothers to venture out from their home in rural South Dakota and establish himself as a champion on the rodeo road – the eldest brother who took the lead. He was the PRCA Saddle Bronc Riding...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2012 One of the most popular and iconic rodeo cowboys of his generation, five-time World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider Billy Etbauer is as much respected for his go-for-broke style and his unfailing humility as he is for the string of victories that covered parts of four...
Dodge City, Kansas • Inducted 2012 When the committee for the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup decided to create a PRCA rodeo in 1977, it was with the idea that it would never be just another stop on the road. There would be big prize money, top stock and the best contract...
