2024 PRORODEO Media Guide

PRORODEO HALL OF FAME

The colorful history and equally colorful legends of professional rodeo live on at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Since the Hall’s opening in 1979, 294 people, 38 animals and 32 rodeo committees have been inducted. More than 100 individuals are nominated each year, but only a few are selected. Each year thousands of visitors tour the Hall, which offers exhibits that detail the changes in saddles, chaps, hats and other rodeo equipment over the decades as well as separate exhibits for many of ProRodeo’s luminaries. Hall of Fame guests start their tour in the Hall of Champions, which features exhibits on notable cowboys in each event, current world champions, famous stock contractors, rodeo queens, clowns, bullfighters and other rodeo personnel. They often finish their tour in the Hall’s beautiful gardens, featuring bronze sculptures depicting rodeo events and champions. Guests touring the Hall during the summer can also visit retired rodeo roughstock who make their homes in the Zoetis Barn across from the Hall’s sculpture gardens and adjacent to the Priefert-Ed Honen Arena.

Located on a 13-acre site tucked against the foothills of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, the Hall of Fame is easily identifiable from Interstate 25 by a landmark bronze statue of former saddle bronc rider and Hall of Famer Casey Tibbs on the famous horse Necktie. To reach the ProRodeo Hall of Fame from northbound I-25: take exit 148; turn left on Rockrimmon Boulevard; turn left at the second light, Pro Rodeo Drive, then follow the Hall of Fame sign and turn into the first driveway on the left. From southbound I-25: exit 148 and continue south through the first light (Corporate Drive); at the second light, turn right onto Rockrimmon Blvd.; turn left at the second light, which is Pro Rodeo Drive, then follow the Hall of Fame sign and turn into the first driveway on the left. For the Hall’s seasonal hours of operation and additional information about special events, log on to www. ProRodeoHallofFame.com. Legends of ProRodeo These Legends of ProRodeo have been honored at ProRodeo Hall of Fame Galas held each December in conjunction with the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo:

2006: Jake Barnes 2007: Jim Shoulders 2008: Clem McSpadden 2009: Harry Vold

2015: Mel Potter 2016: Neal Gay 2017: Michael Gaughan 2018: Keith Martin 2019: Cotton Rosser 2020: Bob Tallman 2021: Clint Johnson 2022: Mike Cervi 2023: Red Steagall

2010: Larry Mahan 2011: Shawn Davis 2012: Dean Oliver 2013: Donnie Gay 2014: Benny Binion

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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INFORMATION