Livestock • Inducted 2014 Along with Kingsway Skoal and Lonesome Me, Big Bend Rodeo Company’s legendary mare Spring Fling is the only horse to be honored by the PRCA as both a Bareback and Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year. Spring Fling started out on the bareback side and received the PRCA’s...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 2014 One of the most accomplished bulldoggers of his generation, Byron Walker is part of a rare two-world championship household. He won his steer wrestling gold buckle in 1981 and his wife, Mary, was the barrel racing world champion in 2012. Trained by his father, “Whitey Bob” Walker,...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2014 The first contestant from outside North America to be inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, Glen O’Neill was the saddle bronc riding champion of his native Australia before moving to Canada as a teenager and establishing himself as an elite competitor for more than...
Nampa, Idaho • Inducted 2014 The Snake River Stampede had its humble beginnings in 1913 as a bucking contest in conjunction with the annual Harvest Festival in Nampa, Idaho – where fans stood behind ropes to take in the action – to become one of the elite regular-season stops on the...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2014 Wayne Herman looked every inch the unvanquished warrior when he collected his gold buckle as the 1992 world champion bareback rider, with six stitches in his face, a black eye, a concussion and an injured riding arm, all coming as the result of a fifth-round wreck...
Hayward, California • Inducted 2014 Harry Rowell, a rancher, businessman and philanthropist, brought the sport of rodeo to the athletic fields of the Burbank School in downtown Hayward, Calif., in 1921 and then moved it to his Dublin Canyon Ranch four years later, where it has been a fixture on the...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2014 Miles Hare spent more than three decades throwing his body in the path of 2,000-pound beasts to protect rodeo cowboys before retiring in 2008, proving himself one of the most athletic bullfighters in the history of the sport. Hare worked as a bullfighter at the National Finals...
All-Around • Inducted 2014 Pete Grubb was just the second cowboy in ProRodeo history – after Clay Carr – to win world championships at both ends of the arena. The Salmon, Idaho, cowboy won the bareback riding championship in 1938 and the team roping title (as a heeler) in 1940. He was...
Greeley, Colorado • Inducted 2014 The Greeley Stampede, created in 1922 as a tribute to local potato farmers – a one-day event with total attendance of 2,500 – has grown into an internationally-acclaimed celebration of Western heritage that runs nearly two weeks and attracts more than 450,000 people annually to Northern...
Clovis, California • Inducted 2014 In the spring of 1914, the Clovis (Calif.) Women’s Club held a fundraiser which featured food and games. Ranchers and farmers effected a temporary arena by circling their wagons in a vacant lot for competition in mule riding and calf roping. That was the start of a...
