PRORODEO Media Guide - 2025

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, 319 people, 41 animals and 36 rodeo committees have been inducted. 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. For more information regarding the Hall of Fame, including address, seasonal hours of operation and additional information about special events, please go 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 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Jake Barnes Jim Shoulders Clem McSpadden Harry Vold

Neal Gay Michael Gaughan

Keith Martin Cotton Rosser Bob Tallman Clint Johnson Mike Cervi Red Steagall Pete Coors

Larry Mahan Shawn Davis Dean Oliver Donnie Gay Benny Binion Mel Potter

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