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Trusted traditions require dedication, determination and vision. Each year hours and hours of planning, organization and coordination occur to produce Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. and the World’s Oldest Rodeo®
The World’s Oldest Rodeo® is truly Prescott’s most anticipated event of the year, and has been for the past 133 years. It is a tradition that resonates positively with residents, business owners and visitors who crave a true western experience...and a huge boost to the local economy.
Except for what we all experienced in 2020 with COVID-19, the World’s Oldest Rodeo ® has consistently implemented trusted traditions that make us special, unique and nostalgic. However, the pandemic was a true test of our will, dedication
and strength as an organization, a community and as people.
This year our theme best resonates on the outcome of the pandemic: True. Western. Determination. It represents the traditions that make this organization and the World’s Oldest Rodeo ® unique. We are true to our roots, to the
culture that many depend on and know Prescott for … and we are determined to survive anything that comes our way!
The World’s Oldest Rodeo ® is the culture that defines Prescott as a western town. We are the birthplace of professional rodeo, and many come from all over just to experience that and create lifelong memories.
Last year was a true test of our strength and overall determination. With the help of members from the community, and permission from the Governor’s office, we produced and held the 133rd World’s Oldest Rodeo ® right here at this location. It was different, a bit awkward with the new rules that were enforced, but it turned out to be a great rodeo with great rodeo livestock and contestants.
Looking ahead and here we are, the 134th annual World’s Oldest Rodeo® is upon us. It is exciting, refreshing, and a bit
overwhelming to think of all this organization has endured. We are “rodeo strong” and will hopefully be around for the next 134 years in Prescott, Arizona.
This year is off to a great start with strong ticket sales and at full capacity, and our sponsors have once again showed up in numbers. We truly appreciate our rodeo fans, sponsors and contestants who continuously support us to make Prescott’s most anticipated event of the year the best it can be!
It is our goal and promise to produce the best rodeo, dance, parade and all the other activities held during Prescott Frontier Days ®. The reason we are strong is because of each one of you — your dedication to serve as a volunteer, donate as a sponsor, your membership and
attendance at member meetings, willingness to ride in the grand entry and proudly display your patriotism in front of thousands of people, is truly an honor and something we as a nonprofit organization do not take lightly.
Each year hundreds of volunteers work tirelessly (some yearround) to improve the rodeo grounds, organize merchandise, implement new ways of doing things to contribute to the overall success of this rodeo and organization. Consider this a sincere thank you to each of you!
The World’s Oldest Rodeo ® is a true, western and determined organization that values the community in which it thrives, and we would not be here without it. We encourage you to enjoy yourself, watch heart-pounding and
world-class rodeo and patronize the vendors in attendance.
Remember, the gates open two hours prior to each performance. So come early, shop the vendor spaces, and enjoy some great food (and maybe some livestock sounds) along the way.
Don’t forget our annual rodeo dance (held in the Depot Marketplace/BMO Harris Bank parking lot), Arizona’s second largest outdoor parade (held in downtown Prescott) and many other family-friendly events occur from June 28 to July 4; visit www. worldsoldestrodeo.com for more information and event details.
Enjoy the World’s Oldest Rodeo ® , and if we can do anything to make your experience better, please let us know. Thank you for your support!
There’s lots going on and here’s the schedule to keep things straight:
Performance Sponsor
Performance #1 - Monday, June 28 - 7:30 PM ........................................... Daily Courier
Performance #2 - Tuesday, June 29 - 7:30 PM ................................ Wrangler - TETWP
Performance #3 - Wednesday, June 30 - 7:30 PM Ram/York
Performance #4 - Thursday, July 1 - 7:30 PM ................................................... HOAMCO
Performance #5 - Friday, July 2 - 7:30 PM .................................................... Jack Daniels
Performance #6 - Saturday, July 3 - 1:30 PM ..................................................... Murphy’s
Performance #7 - Saturday, July 3 - 7:30 PM ........................................................... Coors
Performance #8 - Sunday, July 4 - 1:30 PM Pepsi
GATES OPEN TWO HOURS PRIOR TO EACH PERFORMANCE
President’s Letter
Welcome Rodeo Fans and Sponsors!
We are so happy Y’all can join us as we present the 134th World’s Oldest Rodeo® and all the other events Prescott Frontier Days® has to offer. This is the Best Historic Rodeo, according to True West Magazine for the sixth year in a row and Prescott’s most anticipated event of the year. We are the “Birthplace for Rodeo,” and we cannot wait to share with each of you eight action packed performances, sure to be the best rodeo has to offer. We are extremely fortunate to have the best sponsors, contractors, volunteers and fans in the entire country. We thank each one of you for your loyalty and support every year!
We take huge pride in the Cowboys and Cowgirls that compete in our rodeo for the most sought-after Prescott World’s Oldest Rodeo® prize buckle. These men and women are among the elite of PRCA Pro Rodeo competitors in our great sport today. There is a reason why in 2020 the Worlds Oldest Rodeo® was named one of the top 5 large outdoor rodeos in the nation. The Wild Horse Race is always sure to entertain so don’t miss an opportunity to purchase our 2021 poster or t-shirt featuring this very event. We also are pleased to add our newest event in 2021, the very popular Women’s Breakaway Roping for the first year in Prescott.
We are full of tradition and history here in Prescott, but we also are known for our “True Western Determination,” which showed in 2020. We are now back 100% and ready to continue our traditions and history for another fun filled week in 2021. Please check out our vendors, PFD mercantile, grab a refreshment or two, sit back and enjoy all the action we have to offer. In closing, on behalf of the entire organization we wish everyone a safe, healthy and enjoyable experience in Prescott and the World’s Oldest Rodeo® during Prescott Frontier Days®.
God Bless this Rodeo, watch over each of us and keep us safe as we go through this incredible week of events here at Arizona’s “Place to Be.” Happy 4th of July to all, and thank you to all who are serving or have served this great country and fought for our freedoms.
“Tirn em out Wild” and always “Stay Cowboy.”
Chris J. Graff President
Previous Past President: Joe Butner
2021
Irene
Michael
Rex
Kimberli
Welcome to the 134th year of the World’s Oldest Rodeo®, brought to you, our loyal fans, by Prescott Frontier Days® Inc.
This year marks a year of new beginnings…long-time General Manager JC Trujillo retired, and I, as GM, have taken up roots. I will strive to continue what makes the WOR special while taking it to the next stage in the evolution of this spectacular sport we call RODEO. Another new beginning in the WOR is the addition of the WPRA and PRCA newest event partnership- the breakaway roping. It is exciting that PFD will be offering this great opportunity for more cowgirls to compete at the 134th WOR, and I guarantee that you will enjoy this fast paced event.
A quick glance at my history…born in LV, NV, enjoyed two brief stints in Pahrump, NV and Seligman, AZ before finally landing on a ranch in central NM. I attended college at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX on a rodeo scholarship, where I received my bachelor’s degree in animal science followed by a masters degree in agriculture tailor-made for me to include sports marketing and a coaching emphasis, while also serving as the rodeo team’s assistant coach. I then went on to be the first official rodeo coach at NMSU for 13.5 years, while there, my team brought home countless regional titles, several national individual titles and almost a dozen regional “Rodeo of the Year” awards. I was named National Coach of the Year in 2007. Rodeo production has been my passion, and I was honored to be selected as the College National Finals Rodeo Arena Director in 2009, a position I currently hold and love doing. In 2016, I moved on from coaching and branched out to facilities management when a multimillion dollar facility came available near my family ranch home in Socorro, NM. There I served as the Socorro Rodeo & Sports Complex Director and City of Socorro Tourism Director.
As far as my rodeo career history, I was the PFD WOR Saddle Bronc Rider 1999 champion and 2003 co-champion. I qualified for the Turquoise Circuit Finals 4x, qualified for the Ram NCFR once, and the CNFR twice. At the height of my career, I was sidelined with a hard-toswallow knee injury, which prevented me from rodeoing full time and pursuing that gold buckle dream. I did make the trip to the NFR once as a flank man for the Vold Rodeo Co. in 2016, I helped the Vold family out over the past 12 years in various positions like pick-up man, flankman, chute boss and general labor.
Speaking of the Vold’s…this year’s Parade Grand Marshals are Karen and Kirsten Vold, they are celebrating the 50-year mark of Vold Rodeo Company providing stock to the WOR. It is our honor to have such a committed and passionate family to provide outstanding stock for this prestigious, historic event.
Without the continued support of our sponsors, volunteers and fans this rodeo would not survive, so I would like to thank ALL of you for your continued support. Here’s to another 134 years with PFD and the WOR!
Let’s Rodeo!
Jim Dewey Brown General Manager Prescott Frontier Days ® Inc.
P.O. Box 2037 Prescott, AZ 86302
Office Hours: 9am - 4pm Monday - Friday Phone: 928-445-3103 • Email: info@worldsoldestrodeo.com
(from left) Neal Nabb, Beverage Truck Inventory Chairman; Cherye Jechura, Beverage Bartenders Chairman; Frank Lopez, Parking Chairman; Steve Myers, Ticket Takers Chairman; Jack Berry, Awards Chairman; Brett Mills, Ushers Chairman; Casey Robinson, Bucking Chutes Chairman; Richard Guinn, Rodeo Security Chairman; Daniel Rogers, Archives Chairman
(from left) Dave Morano, Fleet Maintenance Chairman; Jim Cartee, Animal Health Care Chairman; Suzy Davidson, Vendors Chairman/Volunteer Coordinator; Penny Pauletto, Dance Chairman; Becky Cochell, Happy Hearts Chairman; Ruth Ramsey, Membership Chairman; Pat Sayers, Old Timers Chairman/Parade Assistant Chairman; Brenda Griffin, Meeting Host Chairman; Kim Nabb, Beverage Truck Inventory Assistant Chairman
(from left) Kym Lopez, Director/Mercantile Chairman; Christina Avilucea, Tough Enough To Wear Pink Chairman; Ivory Fulkerson, Timed Events Chairman
Archives: Assistant: Rennie Anderson
Legal Liaison: Chairman: Joe Butner
Rodeo Hospitality: Chairman: Steve Orosz
Assistant: Marty Orosz
Parade:
Chairman: Kelly Owsley
Assistant: Yvonne Gibbs
Ticket Takers: Assistant: Dianne Cartee
Badges & Passes: Assistant: Ally VanDerHeyden
Happy Hearts: Assistant: Brenda Steelman
Newsletter: Chairman: Diane Judge
Old Timers: Assistant: Mike Winter
Recording
Secretary: Chairman: Helene Schaffer
Dance Beverage: Chairman: Barbara Boyer
Assistant: John Boyer
Rodeo Security: Assistant: Richard Poggenburg
Assistant: Debbie Tuttle
Vendors: Assistant: Susan Davidson
Animal Health Care: Assistant: Michael Doyle
Cowboy Country/ Grand Entry: Chairman: Nichole Daniel
Assistant: Anna Mysliwiec
Wild Horse Race: Chairman: Anthony Adams
Assistant: Danielle Adams
Arena Signs: Chairman: Chad Kite
Bucking Chutes: Co-Chair: Charlie Williams
Assistant: Pedro Navarro
Timed Events: Assistant: Jordon Cook
Beverage Finance: Chairman: Sandra McClintock
Beverage
Bartenders: Assistant: Matt Camacho
Assistant: Gail McElhinney
Beverage Truck
Inventory/
Meeting Host: Assistant: Tony Griffin
Facility
Maintenance: Chairman: Stanley Narwold
Office Staff: Karen Davis
Marsha Collier
Laura began a nursing career in 1977, working primarily in Geriatrics, then going on to specialize in Orthopedics, and several years in outpatient Psychiatry. She currently holds certification in Health Coaching.
In 2007, Laura began her career in Real Estate in Prescott Arizona. She is a resource in Real Estate on a national and local level for listing and selling, and is a certified negotiation expert.
Originally from Wisconsin, Laura, her husband Dean, and their three children moved to Prescott in 2002. Outside of work, Laura volunteers in many community events and she and her husband enjoy the many recreational activities Prescott has to offer. Laura Spaeth, ABR, CNE,
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Congratulations on the 134th year of the “The World’s Oldest Rodeo®” in Prescott, Arizona.
On July 4, 1888, a group of Prescott merchants and businessmen organized what they called a “cowboy tournament” offering cash prizes and showcasing the spirit, skill and athleticism of local cowboys and ranchers.
Every year since, competitors and fans have come from around the world to enjoy the excitement of the Prescott Rodeo. And no event showcases the boundless spirit of Arizona and the desert southwest better.
To this year’s rodeo organizers and sponsors – thank you for your hard work and support. To the competitors
and fans – welcome to beautiful Prescott and the State of Arizona. I wish you all the best.
2020 was a challenging year, but the Prescott Rodeo endured. I look forward to Arizonans and rodeo fans enjoying another 134 years of the “The World’s Oldest Rodeo®” – and many more.
Sincerely,
Douglas A. Ducey Governor State of Arizona
134 years ago, a group of Prescott merchants and professional businessmen organized the first formalized “cowboy tournament,” where local cowboys and ranchers exhibited their ranch-bred skills and athletic ability for cash prizes.
It was on July 4, 1888, that Prescott, Arizona became the birthplace of the modern rodeo, an essential piece of Arizona’s history and spirit.
This year, we celebrate the 134rd year of “The World’s Oldest Rodeo®,” a crowning achievement for all those who have continued to keep the spirit of the desert southwest alive and part of the Prescott Frontier Days ®
Prescott Frontier Days® are a celebration of something inherently Arizonan, a tradition we have continued to
carry with us through challenges and triumphs for more than 13 decades.
We appreciate the support of the community, organizers and sponsors of this year’s rodeo, and to the competitors – we wish you all the best of luck!
To locals and visitors alike – welcome to “The World’s Oldest Rodeo®!” We hope you enjoy your time here in beautiful Arizona and explore all we have to offer.
Sincerely,
Debbie Johnson Director,
Arizona
Office
of Tourism
Welcome to the 134th Annual World’s Oldest Rodeo®
“True. Western. Determination”
In Prescott, Arizona since the year 1888, this traditional western event during the Fourth of July weekend includes parades and pagentry, dances and of course the rodeo itself. These activities are for all age groups to enjoy while celebrating our western heritage and the birth of our beloved nation.
As in 1888, the first rodeo was a reflection of our “True. Western. Determination.” to keep our heritage alive and celebrate our people’s love of the outdoors and the western work ethic that has served this nation so well before and since. Through the years and even now, the western life style has been the envy of people throughout the world and still is alive and well today. Please celebrate it with us!
We want to thank all the folks from all over this world for coming to Yavapai County and the City of Prescott area to enjoy this truly international event. Please visit our downtown establishments and the western hospitality that can be found there, enjoy time in our open space areas, maybe take a stroll on one of our many trails in the rocky hills or through the pine covered forest. However, please don’t forget the rodeo!!
The entire Board of Supervisors for Yavapai County wishes for you to have a wonderful holiday here in Yavapai County and we know you’ll enjoy the World’s Oldest Rodeo®
Sincerely,
Craig L. Brown, Chairman Yavapai
County Board of Supervisors
District 4
Greetings, Rodeo Fans, and Welcome to Prescott:
We are thrilled to host the 134th edition of the iconic World’s Oldest Rodeo®. Particularly this year, Prescott Frontier Days® is one of our most anticipated and celebrated events. We are so pleased to be able to host in-person events again in Prescott. I am also proud that, even during the pandemic, the rodeo went on, keeping the tradition alive and well.
Prescott cherishes our history and Western heritage, as the First Territorial Capital of Arizona. Prescott is home to the legendary Whiskey Row, the Sharlot Hall Museum, which houses the territorial governor’s mansion, the Phippen Museum of Western Art, the Western Heritage Center, and the Museum of Indigenous Peoples.
Prescott is an ideal place for those seeking a historic, charming community surrounded by natural beauty, infused with culture and higher education. With a comfortable year-round climate, access to the Prescott National Forest, over 500 miles of multiuse trails, five
sporting lakes, and four museums, Prescott offers “Old West” culture mixed with artistic creativity and a love of the outdoors. Earlier this year, True West Magazine named Prescott “Best Old West Town to Live In.”
While in Prescott be sure to visit our one-of-a-kind, locally-owned shops, restaurants, bars, breweries and cafes that add to the unique charm of our city.
Thank you for joining us to celebrate the 134th World’s Oldest Rodeo® and nearly 175 years of rich Prescott history. Enjoy the rodeo, and best of luck to all of our riders and contestants!
Sincerely,
Greg Mengarelli
Greg Mengarelli Mayor, City of Prescott
It is with great anticipation that we welcome the World’s Oldest Rodeo® back to Yavapai County again this year! After a long and challenging year, this event gives our community the opportunity to get out, create and relive unique memories; continuing the tradition of bringing one of the most exciting local events to you, our rodeo fans!
Even during a pandemic, when most rodeos were postponed or canceled last summer, the World’s Oldest Rodeo® limited capacity and made several Covid-19 preventing adjustments and was a success. This year the rodeo is gearing up to be an awesome event! As the local Public Health Director, I have worked with the rodeo planning committee and it is my hope that this event will provide a safe venue that brings out the spirit of community and entertainment that has always been a part of rodeo
history here in Yavapai County.
To accommodate the needs of those who cannot attend in-person, the rodeo is likely to be televised to alternate Prescott locations and possibly on television for additional viewing and enjoyment.
It is a pleasure to be a part of the planning of this event, and I hope that you, the fans, will bring your family out to safely enjoy the rodeo, our local businesses, and our beautiful community.
Sincerely,
Leslie
Horton, MA, MCHES, Director, Local Health Officer, Yavapai County Community Health Services
On behalf of the residents and Town Council of Chino Valley, it is my pleasure to welcome all fans of Prescott Frontier Days®, Home of the World’s Oldest Rodeo®
During your visit we encourage you to take a short drive to see us in the plains and rolling hills of Yavapai County. Our small town offers a variety of family activities including our spacious aquatic center and numerous parks where the kids can burn some energy and earn a good night’s sleep. Chino Valley offers a wonderful location to cycle, walk, hike, jog, or ride horseback on our section of the Peavine Trail (but don’t forget your water and sun protection).
Our local eateries will greet you with small town charm and customer service but provide you with big city flavor and satisfaction. Chino Valley may be a small town, but there is something here for everyone.
From the friendly people who help provide that smalltown atmosphere, to the sprawling landscapes brimming with opportunity, to the quiet evenings offering rest and relaxation, we believe you will love Chino Valley as much as we do.
Jack Miller Mayor, Town
of Chino Valley
It is with great honor and pleasure that I welcome you to Prescott, Arizona, home of the World’s Oldest Rodeo®!
The rodeo is an exciting time for our communities to showcase the amazing events and venues that the Prescott and Prescott Valley area has to offer.
As the Mayor of neighboring Prescott Valley I would like to personally invite you to explore the fantastic hiking, golfing, shopping and hospitality that Prescott and Prescott Valley have to offer. Whether you are hiking Thumb Butte, fishing in Fain Lake or even catching a concert or show at the state-of-the art 5,000-seat Findlay Toyota Center, all who have visited will agree that our area is a one-of-a-kind location to visit, explore and relax.
For those of you who live in the Prescott/Prescott Valley area I am sure you will agree that even though we may have grown in size and population over the years we
have not lost that small town feel that we all fell in love with when we moved here. Our residents enjoy the friendly community and knowing that we truly believe in each other and that every citizen and visitor is valued. Prescott Valley is proud of being the safest community in Northern Arizona, and we want you to know that our public safety personnel are some of the best in the country.
In conclusion, thank you again for choosing to spend your time in our area and we are confident you will make memories and want to come back soon. Do not forget to tell all your friends and family members about what a great time you had here in our great community!
Sincerely,
Kell Palguta, Mayor, Town of Prescott Valley
Hi there! This is Brooke Smith, your 2021 Miss Prescott Frontier Days® Queen. I am so honored and excited to represent the Prescott Frontier Days® Rodeo this year! Outside of the rodeo world, I am currently a junior at Arizona State University and enjoy hiking, making art, exploring our beautiful state on horseback and traveling across Arizona while performing at rodeos with my drill team, the Copper State Renegades. We’re excited to see you at the rodeo, and I can’t wait to see you all on the rodeo road!
Hi my name is Shayna Hawkins and I am your Miss Prescott Frontier Days® Junior Court. I am 16 years old and attend Camp Verde High School as a sophomore. I’ve been riding a horse before I could walk. I currently compete in barrel racing, pole bending and goat tying.
Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. is a nonprofit volunteer organization of people of all ages from Prescott and the surrounding areas. They give their time and talents as volunteers to produce a number of events each year including the World’s Oldest Rodeo®.
Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. currently has more than 200 year-round members, and during peak season through the 4th of July, that number increases to more than 700 volunteers who stage the events, including the Rodeo Parade, the Rodeo Dance, Happy Hearts Rodeo for Exceptional Children, Cowboy Church and
of course the World’s Oldest Rodeo ® .
In addition to the membership activities, Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. is active year-round with events in and around the greater Prescott area. PFD participates in the two Christmas parades and PFD Royalty attends other rodeos and events statewide. PFD Royalty contributes each year to the community book and food drives and a Valentines for Vets program.
The organization has a Board of Directors, chairmen and assistant chairmen...who are all volunteers.
303 Montezuma Dr. in the BMO Harris Bank/Depot Marketplace parking lot
July 1 - (family night) 8 p.m. to Midnight.
July 2 - 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. & July 3, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Gate admission - $5.00 per person
Popular local musician Sky Conwell has been called Prescott’s “hardest working” entertainer. With four working bands and a solo act playing all around town nearly every day (often multiple times in one day), he certainly lives up to the hype. When asked the
question “Where do you play?” he often replies with a question of his own, “Where do I NOT play?” There is a reason Sky is so popular – he is talented, fun, personable, and he has a way of making his audience smile of pure enjoyment.
Country music is Sky’s roots. His band Lonesome Valley plays popular Country dance hits that span decades. Set lists include tunes by Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Darius Rucker, Kenny Chesney, and Chris Stapleton. The band also likes to throw in some familiar classic Country rock dance tunes to liven
things up... tunes by The Eagles, CCR, or Tom Petty.
Also in the band is George Janak, the most wanted bass player / lead guitarist in town, and drummer Mike Hutchinson who has shared the stage with many celebrities such as Charlie Rich, Dottie West, and Barbara Mandrell.
Sponsored by Yavapai Bottle Gas & Findlay GMC of Prescott
Edited and written in part by
Tricia Lewis and
excerpts
taken from Danny Freeman
Our story starts in Prescott, Arizona Territory, located in Yavapai County, even as it is today. In that year of 1888, it was a small town, just 24 years old. It was this town, Prescott, that became the birthplace to professional rodeo as we know it today.
American settlers and government people came to the area of presentday Prescott, Arizona, early in 1864 and established the first capital of Arizona Territory. As the area filled with miners, military people and freighters, cattlemen moved in with their herds to furnish beef to the meat-hungry population.
Continuing growth in population in the area brought about the establishment of more and more ranches. An ever-increasing number of cowboys came in to do the work on the ranches until by the 1880s there were about as many cowboys in the area as there were miners who worked in the mines. Quite naturally, the townspeople were interested in what went on on the ranches and in the mines because their livelihood depended on those two main forms of industry.
In those days, as today, ranches held roundups once or twice a year. At that time, cattle were branded, ears marked, the males castrated and those male and female, to be marketed, were separated out. Roundups over, the cowboys of the various ranches, eager for fun and recreation after what often was grueling work, challenged each other to decide who was the best roper and the best “bronco” rider. These informal, spontaneous occasions offered an opportunity for both friends and participants to watch and wager money on their favorites. Cowboys and ranchers alike looked forward to these friendly and exciting events.
Beginning that first year, in 1864, when Prescott became the state capital, elaborate plans were made to celebrate Independence Day on the Fourth of July.
Back in those days, sporting events were not held in Prescott, nor anywhere across America, on the Fourth of July. That day was dedicated to parades, band
concerts, patriotic oratory and the like. Until July 4, 1888!
Without realizing it, and with no intent on its part of doing so, the committee that organized the big Fourth of July celebration beginning back in 1888, made sports history!
In their planning, committee members established the criteria of organized, modern rodeo. The rules were: 1. A committee must organize and put the rodeo on; 2. Cowboys had to be invited to compete; 3. Admission was charged to pay expenses; 4. Prizes were awarded; 5. Documentation must occur for each event. Thus, professional rodeo was to be born at Prescott, Arizona Territory – first capital of Arizona – during that 1888, July 4th celebration.
This year, Prescott Frontier Days ® , Inc. will hold the 134th World’s Oldest Rodeo ® at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds.
Wild horse racing became a part of the Prescott Frontier Days ® Celebration in 1913 as part of the first Cowboy Contest to be held at the present site. The first race consisted of five to eight teams of three men catching, saddling the wild horse, and racing around the half-mile track to determine the winner. The wild horse race was stopped in 1950 due to the traveling expense of the teams across the U.S. In 1972, with the arrival of Harry Vold and his top rated rodeo stock company, wild horse racing became the opening event once more at the World’s Oldest Rodeo ®. Today, the show is pretty much as it was in 1913 within arena space limitations. The teams consist of three key players. A shankman, a mugger, and a rider. The unpredictable sport often leaves spectators mesmerized by an arena filled with wild horses, and cowboys running about. The object of this Buckaroo Brilliance is simple –contain a 1,200 pound unbroken bucking horse with nothing but a lead shank and halter. Bring him to a stop, control the animal’s actions, cinch down a saddle and buck him to the finish line. This must be performed while other teams are trying to accomplish the identical task at the same time and all in less than two minutes. Does the expression Wild Wild West come to mind?
Over the past 100 years, the event of three-man bronc riding
has been refined and the sport has evolved into more than just a tradition, but one of the most challenging and competitive events in Professional Rodeo.
As with many sports, cowboys are always looking to up the ante... Just as the sport of
MotorCross introduced us to the “X-Games,” television reality show competitions brought us “Xtreme Fear Factor,” and even the PRCA has introduced Extreme Bulls, in 2012, a group of Professional Cowboys decided to take rodeo to the next level with the introduction of Xtreme Bronc Riding.
Speed and strength are the name of the game in steer wrestling. In fact, with a world record sitting at 2.4 seconds, steer wrestling is the quickest event in rodeo. The objective of the steer wrestler, who is also known as a “bulldogger,” is to use strength and technique to wrestle a steer to the ground as quickly as possible. That sounds simple enough.
Here’s the catch: the steer generally weighs more than twice as much as the cowboy and, at the time the two come together, they’re both often traveling at 30 miles per hour. Speed and precision, the two most important ingredients in steer wrestling, make bulldogging one of rodeo’s most challenging events. As with tie-down and team ropers, the bulldogger starts on horseback in a box. A breakaway rope barrier is attached to the steer and stretched across the open end of the box. The steer gets a head start that is determined by the size of the arena. When the steer reaches the advantage point, the barrier is released and the bulldogger takes off in pursuit. If the bulldogger breaks the barrier before the steer reaches his head start, a 10-second penalty is assessed.
In addition to strength, two other skills critical to success in steer wrestling are timing and balance. When the cowboy reaches the steer, he slides down and off the right side of his galloping horse, hooks his right arm around the steer’s right horn, grasps the left horn with his left hand and, using strength and leverage, slows the animal and wrestles it to the ground. His work isn’t complete until the steer is on its side with all four feet pointing the same direction.
2020 WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO ® BUCKLE WINNER
That’s still not all there is to it. To catch the sprinting steer, the cowboy uses a “hazer,” who is another mounted cowboy who gallops his horse along the right side of the steer and keeps it from veering away from the bulldogger.
The efforts of the hazer can be nearly as important as those of the steer wrestler. For that reason, and the fact that he sometimes supplies the bulldogger with a horse, the hazer often receives a fourth of the payoff.
2020 world standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR earnings: $154,904
2020 earnings: $200,510
Education: Northwestern Oklahoma State
University World Titles: 1 (2020)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 1 (2020)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications:1 (2020)
Bareback riders endure more abuse, suffer more injuries and carry away more longterm damage than all other rodeo cowboys.
To stay aboard the horse, a bareback rider uses a rigging made of leather and constructed to meet PRCA safety specifications. The rigging, which resembles a suitcase handle on a strap, is placed atop the horse’s withers and secured with a cinch.
Bareback riding has been compared to riding a jackhammer with one hand. As the bronc and rider burst from the chute, the rider must have both spurs touching the horse’s shoulders until the horse’s feet hit the ground after the initial move from the chute. This is called “marking out.” If the cowboy fails to do this, he is disqualified.
As the bronc bucks, the rider pulls his knees up, rolling his spurs up the horse’s shoulders. As the horse descends, the cowboy straightens his legs, returning his spurs over the point of the horse’s shoulders in anticipation of the next jump.
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Making a qualified ride and earning a money winning score requires more than just strength. A bareback rider is judged on his spurring technique, the degree to which his toes remain turned out while he is spurring and his willingness to take whatever might come during his ride.
It’s a tough way to make a living, all right. But, according to bareback riders, it’s the cowboy way.
2020 world standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR standings place: 2nd 2020 NFR earnings: $182,756
2020 earnings: $277,648
Wrangler NFR average titles: 4 (2011-14)
World Titles Won: 5 (2011-14, 2020)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 11(2008-15, 2018-20)
As with saddle bronc riding and team roping, the roots of tie-down roping can be traced back to the working ranches of the Old West. When calves were sick or injured, cowboys had to rope and immobilize them quickly for veterinary treatment. Ranch hands prided themselves on the speed with which they could rope and tie calves, and they soon turned their work into informal contests.
Today, the mounted cowboy starts from a box, a three sided fenced area adjacent to the chute holding the calf. The fourth side of the box opens into the arena.
A cowboy’s success in tie-down roping depends in large part on the precise teamwork between him and his horse. The calf receives a head start that is determined by the length of the arena. One end of a breakaway rope barrier is looped around the calf’s neck and stretched across the open end of the box. When the calf reaches its advantage point, the barrier is released. If the roper breaks the barrier before the calf reaches its head start, the cowboy is assessed a 10-second penalty.
The horse is trained to come to a stop as soon as the cowboy throws his loop and catches the calf. The cowboy then dismounts, sprints to the calf and throws it by hand, a maneuver called flanking. If the calf is not standing when the cowboy reaches it, he must allow the calf to get back on its feet before flanking it. After the calf is flanked, the roper ties any three legs together with a pigging string - a short, looped rope he clenches in his teeth during the run.
While the contestant is accomplishing all of that, his horse must pull back hard enough to eliminate any slack in the rope, but not so hard as to drag the calf.
When the roper finishes tying the calf, he throws his hands in the air as a signal that the run is completed. The roper then remounts his horse, rides forward to create slack in the rope and waits six seconds to see if the calf remains tied. If the calf kicks free, the roper receives no time.
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 2(2019-20) 2020 WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO ® BUCKLE WINNER
2020 world standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR standings place: 15th
2020 Wrangler NFR earnings: $41,731 2020
earnings: $198,399
World Titles Won: 1 (2020)
Girls’ breakaway actually first emerged in high school rodeo. The National High School Rodeo Association has been crowning a national champion since 1953. The event didn’t appear in college rodeo until 1969. The WPRA had tie-down roping dating back to 1948 but added breakaway roping in the 1970’s off and on until it was annual in 1989. The first-ever WPRA Breakaway Roping World Champion was Becky Berggen in 1974, followed by Becky Fuchs in 1975. A champion wouldn’t be named again until 1982 when Pam Minick won the title.
In 2017, the breakaway ropers of the WPRA began making efforts to introduce their event into Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) events in the Columbia River Circuit (that includes the states of Oregon and Washington) with the hope this small spark would light a bigger fire within the industry. They introduced breakaway into iconic rodeos like Ellensburg, Washington and Pendleton, Oregon, and by 2019 the WPRA was sanctioning up to 30 breakaway roping events at PRCA rodeos.
In 2020, the WPRA in partnership with the PRCA agreed to open it up to any sanctioned rodeo wanting to add breakaway roping to their list of events bringing a new spotlight to the event as never before. The WPRA started keeping standings for breakaway events held at PRCA sanctioned rodeos versus those events co-approved by the WPRA. As a result in 2020 the WPRA World Champion Breakaway Roper will be determined by the ProRodeo standings instead of the
traditional WPRA coapproved standings. As a result of the WPRA and PRCA partnership women breakaway ropers now have more opportunities and the two Associations are working to make the event more “rodeo mainstream.”
The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo was the first rodeo in 2020 to not only add breakaway roping to its legendary rodeo but was the first to offer equal money to breakaway ropers.
Don’t blink or you may just miss the run. Breakaway roping is the event comparable to the men’s tie-down roping on the cowboy side except the cowgirls are not required to dismount and tie the calf. In breakaway roping, the cowgirl has a flag tied close to the end of her rope and a nylon string tied from the rope to the saddle horn. Once the barrier is released and the calf leaves the roping chute, the cowgirl gives chase throwing the loop around the calf’s neck. When the rope grows tight after the calf is roped, the string breaks away from the saddle horn and the flag goes flying, signaling the timer to stop the clock. The time in the breakaway roping can sometimes get as fast as 2.0 seconds and since it is a timed event, the fastest time wins. A broken barrier results in a 10-second penalty.
Stephenville, Texas
Events: Breakaway Roping, team roping (header and heeler), tie-down roping 2020 Breakaway earnings: $47,185.33
WPRA Career earnings: $488,523
Joined WPRA: 2006
World titles: 19 (2014, 2016 breakaway roping; 2008-11, 2013, 2015-16, 2018-19 all-around; 2011, 2014, 2016 team roping header; 2008-10, 2013-14 tie-down roping)
Wrangler NFBR qualifications: 1 (2020)
Saddle bronc riding is rodeo’s classic event, both a complement and contrast to the wilder spectacles of bareback riding and bull riding. This event requires strength to be sure, but the event also demands style, grace and precise timing.
Saddle bronc riding evolved from the task of breaking and training horses to work the cattle ranches of the Old West. Many cowboys claim riding saddle broncs is the toughest rodeo event to master because of the technical skills necessary for success. Every move the bronc rider makes must be synchronized with the movement of the horse. The cowboy’s objective is a fluid ride, somewhat in contrast to the wilder and less controlled rides of bareback riders.
One of the similarities shared by saddle bronc and bareback riding is the rule that riders in both events must mark out their horses on the first jump from the chute. To properly mark out his horse, the saddle bronc rider must have both heels touching the animal above the point of its shoulders when it makes its first jump from the chute. If the rider misses his mark, he receives no score.
While a bareback rider has a rigging to hold onto, the saddle bronc rider has only a thick rein attached to his horse’s halter. Using one hand, the cowboy tries to stay securely seated in his saddle. If he touches any part
2020 WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO ® BUCKLE WINNER
of the horse or his own body with his free hand, he is disqualified.
Judges score the horse’s bucking action, the cowboy’s control of the horse and the cowboy’s spurring action. While striving to keep his toes turned outward, the rider spurs from the points of the horse’s shoulders to the back of the saddle. To score well, the rider must maintain that action throughout the eight second ride. While the bucking ability of the horse is quite naturally built into the scoring system, a smooth, rhythmic ride is sure to score better than a wild, uncontrolled effort.
Career earnings: $1,377,920
2020 world standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR earnings: $247,135
2020 earnings: $358,471
Education: Milford High School (Milford, Utah)
World Titles Won: 2 (2017, 2020)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 5 (2016-2020)
Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (2020)
Team roping, the only true team event in ProRodeo, requires close cooperation and timing between two highly skilled ropers – a header and a heeler - and their horses. The event originated on ranches when cowboys needed to treat or brand large steers and the task proved too difficult for one man.
The key to success? Hard work and endless practice. Team roping partners must perfect their timing, both as a team and with their respective horses. Similar to tie-down ropers and steer wrestlers, team ropers start from the boxes on each side of the chute from which the steer enters the arena. The steer gets a head start determined by the length of the arena.
One end of a breakaway barrier is attached to the steer and stretched across the open end of the header’s box. When the steer reaches his advantage point, the barrier is released, and the header takes off in pursuit, with the heeler trailing slightly further behind. The ropers are assessed a 10-second penalty if the header breaks the barrier before the steer completes his head start. Some rodeos use heeler barriers, too.
2019 WORLD’S OLDEST RODEO ® BUCKLE WINNERS
Clay Tryan (HEADER) Jake Long (HEELER)
The header ropes first and must make one of three legal catches on the steer – around both horns, around one horn and the head or around the neck. Any other catch by the header is considered illegal and the team is disqualified. After the header makes his catch, he turns the steer to the left and exposes the steer’s hind legs to the heeler. The heeler then attempts to rope both hind legs. If he catches only one foot, the team is assessed a five second penalty. After the cowboys catch the steer, the clock is stopped when there is no slack in their ropes and their horses face one another.
Colby Lovell (HEADER)
2020 world standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR standings place: 13th
2020 NFR earnings: $122,327
2020 earnings: $187,836
Education: Blinn College (Bryan, Texas), Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), degree in agricultural business
World Titles: 1 (2020)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 0
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 7 (2010-13, 2015-16, 2020)
(HEELER)
2020 world standings place: 1st
2020
Wrangler NFR standings place: 11th
2020 NFR earnings: $122,327
2020 earnings: $178,486
World Titles: 2 (2018, 2020)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 0 Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 9 (2012-20)
Barrel racing has no judges but time and accuracy. It is graceful and simplistic – a cowgirl, three barrels, a horse and a stopwatch. But what a horse – a proven barrel racing horse can cost $50,000! The objective – ride the horse as quickly as possible around a cloverleaf course of three barrels and win. Hesitate and lose. The sport is timed to the hundredth of a second. When the racer enters the arena, an electronic
eye starts the clock. The clock is stopped the instant the horse completes the pattern. The cowgirl may elect to execute the pattern to the left, completing the pattern to the right, or from the right and complete from the left. Not only must the horse be quick, but intelligent enough to avoid tipping the barrels. An infraction of five second time penalties per barrel assures no reward of winning.
CAREER EARNINGS: $1,294,478
2020 Earnings: $349,076
World titles: 3 (2018-20)
Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (2020)
Wrangler NFR qualifications: 4 (2017-20)
RAM Top Gun: 1 (2020)
Education: Texas A&M University (College Station), graduated May 2017 with a degree in agriculture economics
Rodeo competition, in the beginning, was a natural extension of the daily challenges cowboys confronted on the ranch. Such as roping calves and breaking broncs into saddle horses.
Bull riding, which is intentionally climbing on the back of a 2,000 pound bull, emerged from the fearless and possibly foolhardy nature of the cowboy. The risks are obvious. Serious injury is always a possibility for those fearless enough to sit astride an animal that literally weighs a ton and is usually equipped with dangerous horns. Regardless, cowboys do it, fans love it and bull riding ranks as one of rodeo’s most popular events.
Bull riding is dangerous and predictably exciting, demanding intense physical prowess, supreme mental toughness and courage. Like bareback and saddle bronc riders, the bull rider may use only one hand to stay aboard during the eight-second ride. If he touches the bull or himself with his free hand, he receives no score. But unlike the other roughstock contestants, bull riders are not required to mark out their animals. While spurring a bull can add to the cowboy’s score, riders are commonly judged solely on their ability to stay aboard the twisting, bucking mass of muscle. Balance, flexibility, coordination, quick reflexes and, perhaps above all, a strong mental attitude are the stuff of which good bull riders are made.
To stay aboard the bull, a rider grasps a flat braided rope, which is wrapped around the bull’s chest just behind the front legs and over its withers. One end of the bull rope, called the tail, is threaded through a loop
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on the other end and tightened around the bull. The rider then wraps the tail around his hand, sometimes weaving it through his fingers to further secure his grip.
Then he nods his head, the chute gate swings open, and he and the bull explode into the arena.
Every bull is unique in its bucking habits. A bull may dart to the left, then to the right, then rear back. Some spin or continuously circle in one spot in the arena. Others add jumps or kicks to their spins, while others might jump and kick in a straight line or move side to side while bucking.
2020 world standings place: 1st (AA), 1st (BR), 7th (SB)
2020 earnings: $422,041 (AA, $392,302; SB, $154,101; BR, $267,941) Education
Milford (Utah) High School
World Titles Won: 3 (AA, 2019-2020) (BR, 2020)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 0
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 3 (BR, 2019-2020) (SB, 2020)
One mounted cowboy pursues a full-grown steer with reinforced horns; lassos it with his rope, catching the animal by the horns; fastens the rope to his saddle; and stops his horse suddenly. With the steer’s horns roped, the roper throws the slack of the rope over its hip, turns his horse to the left, as the rope tightens it lifts the steer’s hip up and pulls the head around as the steer falls on its side. The cowboy then quickly dismounts and ties three of the steer’s feet with a ‘’pigging string’’ using a halfhitch knot, colloquially called, ‘’two wraps, and a hooey.” Raising both hands,the cowboy signals completion of his task.
As in calf roping, the steer must stay tied for six seconds, and the same barrier penalties apply. The event is timed, and the contestant with the fastest time wins.
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Steer roping events are held only at select arenas, and a separate Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) final takes place each year to determine a steer roping champion. Top professional steer ropers will tie a steer in 10-15 seconds.
2020 world standings place: 1st (SR) 2020 NFSR standings place: 1st 2020 NFSR earnings: $69,072
2020 earnings: $117,459 (SR)
PRCA career earnings: $7,058,200
NFR Qualifications: 31 (TD 1999-2011, 201315, 2017-18; TR 1998, 2003-04, 2006-15)
NFSR qualifications: 23 (1997-2015, 2017-20)
World titles: 26 (AA 2002-04, 2006-15, 2018; TD 2007, 2009-10; TR 2010; SR 2006-07, 2011, 2013-15, 2019-20
NFSR average titles: 5 (2012, 2014-15, 2020)
Education: Vernon (Texas) Regional Junior College, associate degree in arts and sciences
The PRCA world all-around champion is considered by many the most talented and versatile cowboy in the sport. The PRCA Cowboy who wins the most prize money in a year while competing in at least two events, earning a minimum of $3,000 in each event, wins the world all-around championship.
In 2020, Stetson Wright is the all-around cowboy world- champion for the PRCA.
• 2020 world standings place: 1st (AA), 1st (BR), 7th (SB)
• 2020 earnings: $422,041 (AA, $392,302; SB, $154,101; BR, $267,941) World Titles Won: 3 (AA, 2019-2020) (BR, 2020)
• Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 0
• Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 3 (BR, 2019-2020) (SB, 2020)
• Education Milford (UT) High School
Professional 2020 Highlights All-Around
• Won his second consecutive all-around world title and claimed his first bull riding world championship.
• Won the RAM Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Heber City, Utah)
• Won the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah)
• Won the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo
• Won the Douglas County Fair and Rodeo (Castle Rock, Colo.)
• Won the Yuma (Colo.) Fair & Rodeo
• Won the Jerome (Idaho) County Fair and Rodeo
• Won the Wyoming (Douglas) State Fair & Rodeo
• Won the Eastern Montana (Miles City) Fair Rodeo
• Won the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho)
• Won the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho)
• Won the Gem State Classic Pro Rodeo (Blackfoot, Idaho)
• Won the Gooding (Idaho) Pro Rodeo
• Won the Lion’s Dixie Roundup (St. George, Utah)
2019: Won his first all-around world championship at his first Wrangler NFR after finishing with $297,923. Won the Spanish Fork (UT) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the St. Paul (OR) Rodeo, the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, UT), the Ogden (UT) Pioneer Days, the Rodeo de Santa Fe (NM), the Clark County Fair & Rodeo, the Pony Express Rodeo (Eagle Mountain, UT), the Cody (WY) Stampede, the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, UT), the West Jordan (UT) Western Stampede, the Red Desert Roundup (Rock Springs, WY).
At the ripe age of 22, this cowboy has a pretty impressive rodeo career and we have a feeling it is only the beginning of what we will see from this talent. He has many siblings that compete in professional rodeo as well. He started competing in rodeo events in the fourth grade and is the only Wright family member who competes in bull riding and saddle bronc riding. We wish him the best of luck at the World’s Oldest Rodeo ® !
2020 world standings place: 1st (AA), 1st (BR), 7th (SB)
2020 earnings: $422,041 (AA, $392,302; SB, $154,101; BR, $267,941) Education
Milford (Utah) High School
World Titles Won: 3 (AA, 2019-2020) (BR, 2020)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 0
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 3 (BR, 2019-2020) (SB, 2020)
In professional rodeo, cowboys share the limelight with the livestock. Rodeo is a rugged, wild sport. Like a well-conditioned athlete, an animal can perform well only if it is healthy. Any cowboy will tell you he takes home a paycheck only when the animal is in top form. Specific rules govern how long an animal can remain in transit before a rest, how many times an animal can perform in a specified period of time, and that an inspection of the animals is required before each performance; any animals deemed not in top condition, do not perform. Additional rules govern facilities to be free of hazards to the animals, specify arena preparation, a conveyance for transport of injured animals, the use of fleeced lined flank straps placed away from animal’s genitals, prohibit sharpened spurs by riders, and require the presence of a veterinarian on site for all performances.
Stock contractors pay up to five figures for top rated animals. Naturally, this motivates care of these investments. For many, these animals are more than mere investments; they are “members of the family.” The average bucking horse, or bull, works less than five minutes a year in the arena, as a result they can
live to be 20 years of age and 15 years respectively. Veterinarians attribute these long, healthy lifespans to good care, quality feed, and adequate exercise.
Some bulls and horses have natural bucking tendencies. The absolute determination to buck if something is on its back, often an inherited trait, is what makes an animal a candidate for rodeo livestock. This tendency is the focus of the “Born to Buck” breeding program. Simply stated, “If everything is done right, when the animals arrive at the arena, they’re excited. They know the game and they’re looking forward to it. They are ready to buck!” Prescott Frontier Days® takes pride in the care and well-being of all animals used in performances of the World’s Oldest Rodeo®.
Kirsten Vold, Owner — The youngest of six children, Kirsten started taking over the Vold Rodeo Company when she was just 25. Since, she has built on the legacy her Canadian-born father began nearly six decades ago. It may seem like a natural progression, but Kirsten didn’t always see herself living on the rodeo trail.
Home-schooled until her freshman year in high school, Vold grew up on the road, ensconced in the life of the cowboy and the excitement of the rodeo. After graduating from University of Southern Colorado in 1996 with a B.A. in communications, Kirsten decided to put her degree to work with a job in sports marketing and promotion.
“If you ask me the No. 1 reason why I do what I do, it’s because of the animals,” she beams. “I love working with animals.”
Vold is now considered a trusted veteran in the industry, and her family’s company sets the standard by which all others are measured.
Whether at the rodeo or the ranch, Kirsten’s horses are her life and she is committed to breeding and raising champions. In 2015 Kirsten was the recipient of the Tad Lucas Memorial Award and was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame.
The Vold Rodeo Company has been the stock contractor at the World’s Oldest Rodeo® for the past 50 years. Their legacy continues with the amazing bucking horses and bulls that they bring each and every year. More information is available at www.voldrodeo.com.
The Vold Rodeo Company has been the stock contractor at the World’s Oldest Rodeo ® since 1972; no other stock contractor has served longer in Prescott, Arizona. The company was founded by the late Harry Vold. For the past 50 years, the Vold family has provided excellent stock at this rodeo and been a tremendous partner in the production and quality that sets the bar for all other stock contractors within professional rodeo.
About Harry Vold – 1924-2017 Harry Vold was born in 1924 on a ranch just outside of Ponoka, Alberta, Canada. The Vold Rodeo Company, now based in southern Colorado, produces rodeos in seven states annually and also provides bucking stock for over 100 rodeo performances each year. Vold Rodeo Company is one of only two stock contracting firms to provide stock to all National Finals Rodeos since 1959.
Known as “Duke of the Chutes,” Vold has raised some of the most acclaimed animals in the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association. They include: 1976 Bronc of the Year, Sarcee Sorrell; 1976 Bull of the Year, Panda; 1978 and 1979 Bronc of the Year, Angel Sings; 1979 and 1980 Bull of the Year, 777; 1981 Bronc of the Year, Rusty; 1983 Fighting Bull of the Year and Hall of Fame Inductee, Crooked Nose; 1986 Bronc of the Year, Wrangler Savy; 1991, 1992,
1993 Bronc of the Year, Bobby Jo Skoal; and 2010 Saddle Bronc of the Year, Painted Valley.
Harry Vold’s many achievements during his career include: 11-time PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year; two-time WPRA Stock Contractor of the Year; Prorodeo Hall of Fame Inductee; Canadian Hall of Fame Inductee; Life Member of the Ponoka Stampede; Honorary Sarcee Tribal Chief; PRCA Man of the Year; National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Scholarship Honoree; National Finals Rodeo Board of Director; Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame Inductee; Pendleton Round-Up Hall of Fame Inductee; Pikes Peak or Bust in Colorado Springs, Hall of Fame Inductee; Old Fort Days in Fort Smith, Hall of Fame Inductee; Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee; Dodge City Round-Up Hall of Fame Inductee; and in 2009, he was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and named a Prorodeo Hall of Fame Legend of Rodeo.
A very fitting theme for the Vold Rodeo Company.
They have been a part of the western lifestyle their entire lives and true to their word and their profession, they are determined to produce, provide and sustain an outstanding stock contractor business.
This year, we are honored to have Karen and Kirsten Vold as our parade grand marshals. We value and greatly respect the work and the deep friendships they have provided to this organization.
The theme for this rodeo is: True. Western. Determination.
Today, the Vold Rodeo Company is managed by Harry’s daughter, Kirsten Vold who has been a part of the Vold Rodeo Company all of her life. She and her mother Karen, work tirelessly behind the scenes at the World’s Oldest Rodeo ®. They are involved in the education of rodeo before each performance during the Behind the Chute tours, provide amazing black horses for the flag presentation and grand entry and always produce a fantastic rodeo.
We are honored to have them as our parade grand marshals. The Vold Rodeo Company has been in this community for 50 years! Please welcome them to the 134th World’s Oldest Rodeo® !
The World’s Oldest Rodeo ® is steeped in tradition. One such custom is the Grand Entry, which was first documented in 1920. It’s a time honored tradition with an inspirational oration during which more than 50 riders fill the arena. Featured riders include Prescott Frontier Days ® (PFD) members, volunteers, competing cowboys and cowgirls, and rodeo royalty. Riders display colorful flags representing the featured sponsors of the 2021 World’s Oldest Rodeo ®. This is
our opportunity to thank the sponsors who continue to support the vision and tradition of the World’s Oldest Rodeo ®, celebrating its 134th year at this arena!
As our grand entry procession exits the arena, we salute in song and presentation of the American Flag, the symbol of our country. As the flag circles the arena, bolstering with pride, please take a moment to remember the symbolism it represents: stars on a background of blue for “faith from above,” red for “courage,” white for “strength,” and blue for “justice.” Let these ideals guide our lives, each and every day. Additionally, on the 4th of July, in honor of Military Appreciation Day, military flags are scheduled to be posted by the PFD grand entry riders. Please join us in paying homage to our veterans and first responders − past and present, home and abroad. May they all return home safely one day! Rummel Eye Care generously sponsored the purchase of matching shirts, saddle blankets and horse equipment for our pivot riders. We thank Rummel Eye Care for their support of the World’s Oldest Rodeo ®
Randy is a rodeo legend who is well respected, trusted and known around the sport of professional rodeo.
His accomplishments in the industry are impressive (to say the least). They include induction into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2017 by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and being named the Rodeo Announcer of the Year in 1984, 1990 through 1996, 1998, 2003, 2011 and 2015, also by the PRCA.
Randy has been the “voice of the World’s Oldest Rodeo ®” for the past 36 years, and many generations of rodeo fans, families and contestants have grown fond of him over nearly four decades. He is considered a great friend of Prescott Frontier Days® because of his longevity, loyalty and the knowledge he brings to the sport of professional rodeo.
Before each performance, he studies the contestants, gaining awareness of the latest developments in their rodeo careers. It makes for great rodeo when he can announce and discuss their latest accomplishments.
He understands the sport of rodeo and it resonates with fans and contestants of this traditional rodeo.
Randy is active year-round announcing professional rodeos (big and small) throughout the U.S. and is one of the announcers at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (WNFR) in Las Vegas every year, 18 times to be exact (1985- 86, 1992, 199496, 2007-2020). The WNFR is the Super Bowl of rodeos and draws people from all over the world.
His knowledge, friendly demeanor, talented voice and engaging personality makes every person attending the rodeo feel welcome and included in on the action.
It truly is an honor to have Randy Corley in our arena every year! Please say hello to this rodeo legend if you get the chance.
By 1928 the “Prescott Rules” had become “Rodeo’s Rules of Wide Fame.” They had been worked to a fine point by Lester Ruffner, former arena director, Doc Pardee, arena director in 1926, 1927 and 1928, and Grace Sparkes, secretary of Prescott Frontier Days® since 1915. By 1928, these rules had been found to be almost foolproof and had been copied and used at many of the big rodeos held throughout the country. Few complaints had been lodged against them or the judges during this era and the Prescott rodeo was being held up as a shining example to be copied in other places where cowboy sports were featured.
In 1928, many noted Wild West shows were conducted on the rules adopted in Prescott and made famous through their general acclaim by the show-following punchers. The rules were held to be fair to all concerned: the show directors, the participants and the public which pays its money to take in the contests.
“With the big show, the 40th annual Prescott Frontier Days ® celebration, started in 1888, less than a month
• “Rowdyism.
• “Quarreling with judges or officials.
• “Abusing stock.
• “Failure to give assistance when requested to do so by the arena director.
• “Not being ready for events when called.
• “Being under the influence of intoxicants, or attempting to take unfair advantage of rules.
• “The management is going to run a snappy program and every contestant will be required to lend his assistance to keep it going.
• “Any contestant refusing to ride, rope or participate in any event when called or withdrawing from any event in which he is entered, will be disqualified in all events in which he is entered.
• “Identification numbers will be
distant, it is held to be not too soon to print the general rules for the contests, which follow:
“This contest will be held in the afternoon, commencing exactly 1:30 p.m. You can dance all night, sleep and recuperate in the forenoon, but be sure to be in the parade at 12:45 p.m. every day of the show.
“Every contestant must have his own outfit and be ready when called and no cowboy will be entered who is not willing to wear his big hat and boots at all times. If you are ashamed of being a cowboy, stay away from here.
“The management assumes no responsibility for accident or injury to contestants or stock, and each participant by the act of entry or participation waives all claims against the management for any injury they or their stock may sustain.
“Management has the right to withdraw any contestant’s name and entry and refuse to allow stock to be used for any of the following reasons, to wit:
issued and must be worn in a visible manner at all times while in the arena.
• “Every contestant must ride in every parade and grand entry. Failing to do so means disqualification.
• “There will be no substitutes in these contests. This is a contest of cowboy sports. open to the world of cowboys, who are sportsmen, so if you do not think you can win without help or if you are afraid of getting hurt, get a grandstand seat instead of a receipt for entrance fees.
• “The management positively will issue no passes. Only contestants wearing official numbers will be admitted to the grounds.
• “Mounted parade contestants will be admitted to arena grounds only.
• “ The management reserves
the right to refuse entry of, or withdraw from entry, any contestant who has been dishonest in the competitions, or who has proven to be an undesirable character at any recognized cowboy contest, or elsewhere, and entrance fee shall be forfeited.
• “Any attempt to take unfair advantage of any rule in any event will result in disqualification of contestants from this and all other contests held under this management.
• “Any contestant who protests the decision of the judges, automatically disqualifies himself. These judges are elected by contestants and are given their service gratis. Their decision must be respected.”
• A Cowboy’s word is his sacred bond.
• Bargains sealed with a handshake are more binding than legal documents.
• Be loyal to the boss and the brand.
• Be thankful for your job.
• Lay down your life, if necessary, for the privilege of defending your outfit.
• Be proud of your occupation.
• Be cheerful.
• Grant quick assistance to friends and strangers in need.
• Endure hardships without complaining.
• Don’t make excuses.
• Try to be better than the other fella.
• Share anything you own with a fellow worker.
• Demand square dealings.
• Never tolerate cowards.
• Be generous with your life and money.
• Treat women like ladies.
• Stealing and rustling are evil wrong-doings.
• Do your best.
• Don’t ever sell your saddle.
• If it’s not yours, don’t take it.
• If it’s not true, don’t say it.
• If it’s not right, don’t do it.
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SATURDAY — JULY 3, 2021 AT 9:00 A.M.
On behalf of the Rodeo Parade Committee, our parade sponsor Barrett Propane, and the many volunteers, we welcome you to the 2021 Prescott Frontier Days® Rodeo Parade. This year our rodeo parade theme is “True Western Determination.”
The first 4th of July parade took place in 1864 when Arizona was still a territory. Now the annual Rodeo Parade is a traditional part of the week long rodeo.
After the rodeo parade, we invite you to continue your journey into the celebration of our rodeo and western
heritage, visit our many historical museums, browse the work of local artisans where tradition lives on, visit our local shops and restaurants, and take part in this grand tradition. We hope you will return often to the greater Prescott area and enjoy the local atmosphere.
Tomas Garcilazo, a native of Mexico City, was introduced at an early age to his family heritage and tradition of "La Charreria," which is a skill performed through the generations only by the Mexican Charro. Charros take extreme pride in their highly developed horsemanship and roping abilities. Tomas, third generation charro, has devoted his life to sharing Mexico's National Sport La Charreria with the world.
A lifetime of preparation, performances and competition continue to require total selfdiscipline, patience and commitment by Tomas to training and mastering the artistry of La Charreria. Incorporating a display of refined horsemanship while demonstrating maguey rope artistry in his performances bring audiences to their feet applauding in appreciation of his skills. Tomas devotes countless hours to his horses who with their athletic
ability and intelligence willingly execute maneuvers when asked by their friend. It is a rare and honorable experience to witness these partnership performances.
Tomas has performed throughout Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. He has appeared on Broadway in New York City and toured the U.S. with the Will Rogers Follies, an acclaimed six time Tony Award winning show. He was a featured performer for two years at Disney's Wild West Show in Paris, France plus the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show touring Holland and Germany. Tomas has performed numerous times for Mexico's Presidents along with guest performances at the U.S. White House and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Tomas resides in Stephenville, Texas and continues to share his legacy with audiences at rodeos,
stock shows, horse shows and equine events internationally. His awards are many including the PRCA 2007 2012 and 2013 Specialty Act of the Year award at the Las Vegas National Rodeo Finals. Tomas and his family appeared in the Go Big tv contest and was the GO BIG winner!
Tomas Garcilazo's proficiency as a skilled horseman and rope artist, defines him as one of the finest Charros presenting La Charreria today.
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Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. has the pleasure of presenting this spectacular hitch for the 2021 rodeo
season. They are owned by Mark DeCoudres, of Winfield, Kansas who raises, trains and shows these amazing Clydesdales around the United States.
Please welcome them to the 134th World’s Oldest Rodeo ® !
For more information, visit Broken Spoke Clydesdales on Facebook.
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Utilizing helicopters to round up cattle can be the most cost and time efficient method for ranchers today. Cowboy Copters has experienced pilots, reliable helicopters and equipment that can quickly locate and herd cattle. A helicopter can also give ranchers the power to locate sick or wounded cattle as well as the condition of their vegetation, water supplies and overall status of the ranch.
Quirt Hunt was ranch raised and knows the value of man’s relationship with animals. This makes him a natural at bullfighting and protection. Quirt Hunt started his career in high school rodeos, stepping in as a back-up, Since then he has become one of Pro Rodeo’s Top Bullfighter’s.
His accomplishments include protecting the Professional Bull Riders, PBR on the Built Ford Tough series, being a television-magazine personality, freestyle contender on the Professional Bullfighters tour, PRCA bullfighter and clown, performance horse trainer, rancher and cattlemen, child’s hero and a friend to all.
Luke Kraut has been a part of the World’s Oldest Rodeo® for the past three years and we are honored to have him as a part of our rodeo team.
He was raised on a small cattle station in Queensland, Australia. Born with a passion for livestock and knew he wanted to make a living around the industry. At 15, Luke started entering some small rodeos in steer riding and novice bull riding and continued to ride bulls in Australia until the age of 19. He traveled to the U.S., to Arizona, with some friends and went to an elite rodeo school and
he knew then that America was the place to be if you wanted to rodeo for a living. In 1995, he moved to the U.S. permanently and started to fight bulls as a means to supplement his living. He is also a horse farrier in the greater Phoenix area. He received his PRCA and PBR cards and rode bulls for approximately six years then truly missed fighting bulls and went back to fighting bulls.
Fighting bulls has been great to him and it’s truly his passion. Luke has truly an impressive rodeo career and fights bulls in many
professional, high school, and junior rodeos around the country. For the past 13 years, he has been a bullfighter for the Turquoise Circuit Finals and the Ram National Circuit Finals (2019).
Rockin Robbie Hodges became a PRCA member in 1991 as a contestant and then as a barrel man in 2004.
Rockin Robbie Hodges is no stranger to entertainment and known for making rodeo audiences laugh. He is the guy you want in your arena, your press room, your truck, your trailer, house and family. He is friendly to everyone
he meets and nobody is a stranger in his eyes.
This year, Rockin Robbie Hodges will engage the audience and entertain them with his funny stunts and acts.
We welcome him to the 134th World’s Oldest Rodeo ® !
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Tough Enough to Wear Pink (TETWP), the grassroots cowboy campaign to fight breast cancer, celebrates its seventeenth anniversary. Through the combined efforts of hundreds of volunteers and regional rodeos across the U.S. and Canada, TETWP has raised over $20 million since its inception in 2004. The money raised benefits local breast cancer charities and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which funds breast cancer research projects throughout the word..
Tough Enough to Wear Pink was created when Terry Wheatley teamed up with former director of special events at Wrangler, Karl Stressman, and issued a challenge: wear the color pink during competition at the Wrangler NFR. The idea was to bring attention to the need for breast cancer early detection and a cure. While pink is not typically associated with rough and tumble rodeo cowboys, the industry and fans rose to the challenge filling the arena with the symbolic color. Inspired rodeo associations began asking how they could put on TETWP events at their own hometown rodeos, and
the grassroots fundraising took off, one rodeo at a time.
In 2020, Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. raised $12,800 from our Tough Enough to Wear Pink project. The money is used for Fry’s gift cards and donations to YRMC Breastcancer Center, for cancer patients in need. These gift cards can be used to help with prescription costs, food needs and fuel to get to their treatment appointments.
No administration fee is deducted, allowing 100% of the proceeds to go directly to those in need. Since 2006, Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. has donated over $47,000 to help local cancer patients. Profits from pink merchandise available for purchase at the rodeo will go to this community program. The amount donated will depend on the generosity of the community.
Stop by the “pink” vendor area and purchase a raffle ticket toward the Tough Enough to Wear Pink® jacket.
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Rodeos, whether small or large, legendary or local, depend on volunteers and sponsors to bring a rodeo to life! To produce the World’s Oldest Rodeo ®, and others like it, takes the community, one and all, their generosity in body, mind and resources. With the help of volunteers and funds contributed, arena floors are lovingly prepared, grounds and pens are prepared for incoming stock and competitors, grandstands are cleaned, repaired, painted, and areas stocked to await the faithful fans. Behind the scenes, budget and marketing promote rodeo, enlightening a new generation to the unique experience of rodeo.
Most rodeo organizations survive on a small group of individuals handling the day to day operations, but when rodeo season comes ... time, talent and resources are in high demand, but generally in scarce supply.
It doesn’t matter your age, your physical abilities, your skills, or your economic status in the community, everyone is welcome, everyone is appreciated. Every job is important; every cent is valued.
Rodeo is not just a sport; it is a way of life, honored traditions and heritage founded on the open range. For Prescott, and other communities like us, rodeo is the principle that drives our communities, our citizens, and our moral character. To our volunteers and our sponsors, we owe everything! Without you, there would be no rodeo. For 134 years, we have shared our common love of rodeo. We are most humbled, and most grateful for your past and present support, and for the future, yet to come.
Sincerely, Prescott Frontier Days ®, Inc.
By local artist Steve Atkinson
Posters available during all rodeo performances and on the Courthouse Square
For more information call 928-445-3103
Proceeds go to scholarship for graduating Senior in Yavapai County Visit the Prescott Frontier Days® Mercantile for other great rodeo souvenirs
This charitable foundation is organized to support Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. and the World’s Oldest Rodeo®. Additionally, the Foundation will promote education in Yavapai County, AZ and support activities resulting in charitable and historical benefit to the community. In furtherance of this purpose, the foundation will accept grants and donations, raise funds and acquire and hold real and personal property to carry out such activities.
June 28, 2021
During the 1980s the wife of a PRCA cowboy conceived an idea to offer exceptional children a first-hand “rodeo experience.” In partnership with the PRCA, the idea became reality. Prescott Frontier Days® was honored to participate. After several years, the PRCA program was dissolved, but PFD continued the tradition, recognizing the need within our own community. All rodeo events are modified, and take place on the ground, so each contestant can be involved. There are no limits to what they can achieve as long as we help them believe. All participants are treated to dinner and the evening rodeo performance. A goodie bag is provided by the sponsors. In recent years, the partnership with Horses with Heart has expanded the program utilizing resources of this local based charitable organization, directly designed to extend and enhance the experiences for our exceptional children. They are truly the “heart” in our rodeo. Please support this truly extraordinary organization.
Thank you to the Happy Hearts Sponsors
The Prescott Frontier Days ® Rodeo Committee wants to thank all our Sponsors, Horses with Heart and Volunteers; past, present and future in making this event successful each year.
Prescott Frontier Days ® Inc, Becky & Jerry Cochell, Horses With Heart
Bert Bonnaha was born July 8, 1930 in Prescott, Arizona in a wahm bunvah (traditional home) on Yavapai homelands before it was a reservation. He later relocated to Clarkdale, Arizona with his family where he attended public school. At 17 he served his country in the United States Army and is a proud veteran of the Korean War. After four years in the 28th Infantry Regiment as a medic he came home to Prescott.
As a kid Bert and his cousins would jump on the backs of burros and grab onto their manes and ride until they were thrown. This is when he knew he loved riding bronc horses. Bert's first rodeo was in the early 1950's at the Flagstaff Pow Wow and Rodeo, where he entered the saddle bronc riding event and won! In Flagstaff, at the age of 25, he earned the title of All-Around Cowboy, winning the three events he entered: team roping, bull riding and saddle bronc. Bert joined the Rodeo Cowboys' Association in 1965, which later became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys' Association.
Bert and his wife Gloria raised their six children on the Yavapai Prescott Indian Reservation. Bert retired as an X-ray tech from the VA Hospital and Indian Health Services after 35 years. His home remains on the reservation today.
As a member and oldest Tribal Elder of the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, Bert enjoys attending the local tribe events, Pow Wow gatherings and Prescott's Oldest Rodeo. He is a member of a local Gourd Dance Society which consists of Veterans who gather at Pow Wow to honor all Veterans, pas and present, in song and dance. This ceremonial dancing is very moving as they remember and honor all soldiers for the sacrifices they made to keep our country free. "God Bless America!"
Each year, with honor and gratitude, Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. hosts and welcomes cowboys and cowgirls who competed at the World’s Oldest Rodeo® prior to 1979. Believe it or not, we have several rodeo legends that live in the Prescott area and around Arizona.
It is a time to stop, say thank you and recognize the rodeo family that is legendary in many ways. Initially, it was by invitation only and was limited to those that lived only in Yavapai County. However, in 1988, during the Centennial year, the invitation to attend was open to all those that competed before 1950 regardless where they resided.
This reunion is open to past cowboys and cowgirls, their spouses, and rodeo queens who competed prior to 1979.
The “Old-Timers” represent a special and unique breed of “cowboy.” Prior to 1948, rodeo was basically
done by ranch cowboys. With the creation of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), professional cowboy athletes, who made their living from rodeo way of life, began to emerge. The ranch cowboy found it difficult to compete with professional cowboys and one by one they withdrew from competition.
Today, we celebrate those that join us on the final performance of each year. Many “Old-Timers” get together with other “old- timers” and reminisce about old days but also talk about what is happening in their lives today. It is truly a joy and honor to watch history in the making and sometimes, this reunion, is the only time they see each other all year long.
Circuit cowboys — or “weekend warriors” as they are sometimes known — typically work normal jobs just like the rest of us. But when the weekend comes, they hit the road to compete in a few rodeos close to home.
While they aren’t less serious about their sport, their families or professional obligations require them to stick closer to home instead of traveling for weeks or months at a time.
In 1975, the PRCA recognized the need for an award system for those cowboys who might never qualify for a Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
The association created the PRCA’s Circuit System consisting of 12 geographic regions that include as few as one state or as many as 13. Each PRCA cowboy in the United States chooses a home
circuit at the beginning of the year or is assigned to one that corresponds to his home address. Cowboys compete for points throughout the year and points earned within his circuit are applied toward the standings of his respective circuit.
Each circuit’s top cowboys in each event qualify for that circuit’s “Finals” at the end of the season. The RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo follows all 12 circuit finals.
✱ Friends and Family
✱ Horses and Cattle
✱ Practice and Competition
✱ Winning and Losing
All are elements of one of this country’s oldest traditions ... RODEO. It is a tradition that not only rewards but teaches individuals the responsibility of self discipline and hard, yet fun, work. The afternoons of practice, the daily responsibility of animal chores, the weekend traveling to rodeos, and the opportunities they foresee is what lures our young cowboys and cowgirls to join the wonderful world of Junior Rodeo. Divisions
include Pre Pee Wee (2-5 yrs); Pee Wee (6-10 yrs); Junior (11-13); and Senior (14-19 yrs). Requirements of scholastic eligibility and standards of sportsmanship are required for them to join their local junior or high school rodeo team in the area they live and ride. Contestants compete in age appropriate events including bull riding, bareback and saddle bronc riding, barrel racing, pole bending, goat tying, break away roping, calf roping, team roping, chute dogging, and ribbon roping at eight sanctioned rodeos across Arizona: Casa Grande, Gilbert, Buckeye, Wickenburg, Prescott, Williams, Cottonwood and Kingman. State Junior Rodeo Championship top finalists then compete for the coveted national titles and associated college scholarships. Because of the varied “lessons-in-life” rodeo participants learn, it is no wonder many parents and their youth have found Junior Rodeo a beneficial investment of their time, money, and efforts.
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Cam Smith
Taylor Payson
Jim Anderson
Mary Borgen
Butch Hampton
Rennie Anderson
Jennifer Bass
Jack Berry
Marty Borgelt
Barbara Boyer
Jim Bray
Harold Bring
Martha Brogan
Joy Brown
Jim Buchanan
Dick Busby
Joe Butner
Kemp Cheeves
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Gail Sisson
Tim Boyd
Michelle Clark
Walter Burcham
Helene Schaffer
Dick Busby
Tina Clemmons
Bobbie Jo Cobey
John Cobey
Becky Cochell
Mike Davidson
Charles Demenna
Bob Demicell
Mike Doyle
Vivian Elliot
Richard Ferra
Alvina Green
Bob Hardy
Gatle Higgs
Michael Garcia
Lindsey Mills
Tony Zembik
John Reyes
Dan Schichtel
Carlo Pastore
Jim Higgs
Rex Hinshaw
John Jiacalone
Greg Jordan
Steve Karpuleon
Kevin Kett
Joe Kolar
J.C. Konecny
Phil Kuritzky
Ron Lason
Ray Lesniak
Greg Lazzell
Marty Martin
Bill McAnulty
Deniece McAnulty
Dick McAnulty
Joyce Morgan
Stan Narwold
Fred Nobbe
Lorraine Owen
Ron Owsley
Taylor Payson
Joe Petty
Fred Reid
Mike Robinson
Joe Schwartz
Diane Judge
Bill Oden
Irene Winter
Joseph C. Butner III
Butch Senz
Lee Shane
Brenda Steelman
Mary Ann Suttles
Richard Warinner
Jerry Watson
Ron Weyenberg
Marte Williams
Irene Winter
Doug Wood
Thank you...through your dollars, we can:
✔ Give back to the community in several areas that align with our community mindset. It is our goal to give back and support this community in local schools, breast cancer research, support local veterans and other vital organizations and causes throughout the greater Prescott area.
✔ Provide tickets, items and facilities to fund raising events and charities.
✔ Help food banks
✔ Educate local communities, business organizations and associations in our Western heritage and traditions of rodeo.
✔ Support Youth programs: 4-H, Jr. & High School Rodeo Associations, FFA
✔ Support local cancer patients and programs through TETWP donations
✔ Participate in Kiwanis Auction
✔ Contribute to community fund raisers
For details on volunteering for the World’s Oldest Rodeo® and Prescott Frontier Days® activities, call the PFD Rodeo Office 928.445.3103 or email info@worldsoldestrodeo.com
“We Rodeo...We Give”
Without those dedicated individuals and the hundreds of volunteers that assist them, our events could not and would not happen. Thank you one and all, for all that you do.
1888 Juan Levias
Charlie Meadows
1889 Juan Levias
1891 Ben Blackburn
1893 Doc Goodwin
1895 Eger Jones
1897 Ed Gatlin
1898 Chauncey Townsend
1900 Vicente Ortiz
1903 Frank Condron
1904 Fran Condron
1905 Harry Wright
1906 Will Stapp RW Coughran
1909 Logan Morris
1910 John Fredericks
1911 Thomas Miller
1912 John Fredericks
1913 Roy B Lewis
1914 Harry Henderson
1915 John Fredericks
1916 Doc Pardee
Frank Thompson
1917 Johnny Dobbins
1918 Harry Vandergrift
1919 Luther Swanner
1920 Cheyenne Kiser
1921 Ritchie Lewis
1922 Ritchie Lewis
1923 Doc Pardee
1924 Slim Riley
1925 Tommy Scarlett
1926 Lawton Champie
1927 Leonard Bloodworth
1931 Lawton Champie
1932 Leonard Bloodworth
1933 Leonard Wood
1934 Tom Bride
1935 Penny Henderson
1936 Tom Bride
1937 Pat Woods
1938 Ward Watkins
1939 Ray Seeley
1940 Bill Taylor
1941 Dutch Martin
1942 Joe Tyree
1958 Bill Kips
1959 Sam Spahan Jack Swauger
1960 Roy Archer
1961 Sam Spahan
1962 Jim Polk
1963 Lyle Smith
1964 Don L Willson
1965 Jim Polk
1966 Floyd Baze
1967 Arnold Jones
1968 David Thompson
1969 Sam Graves
1970 Marty Woods
1971 Bill Nelson
1972 Gary Halford
1973 Bo Hunsaker
1974 Bill Smith Dennis Reiners Ned Londo
1975 Ned Londo
1976 Dan Filippini
Bobby Brown
1977 Dan Filippini Bobby Brown
1977 Dan Filippini
1978 John Forbes
1979 Larry Mahan
1980 Bud Pauley
1981 Dan Filippini
1982 Brad Gjermundson
1983 Clint Johnson
1984 Jon Scolari
1985 Mike Merchant
1986 Mel Coleman
1987 Chuck Morris
1988 Jim Jensen Butch Small
1989 Dan Etbauer
1990 Bud Longbrake
1991 Gary McDaniel Robert Etbauer
1992 Kent Cooper
1993 Tom Reeves Jim Bob Custer
1994 Robert Etbauer 158/2
1995 Jake Ireland
Taos Muncy 82
2012 Jacobs Crawley 87
2013 Cody Wright 86
Tyler Corrington ........ 86
2014 Chad Ferley 83
Heith Allan DeMoss 83
2015 Zeke Thurston 85
2016 Clay Elliott.................. 87
2017 Sterling Crawly 86
Zeke Thurston 86
2018 Chase Brooks 86
2019 Taos Muncy ............... 87
2020 Wyatt Casper 83.5
1888 Mose Bryan
1889 Lizzie Dillion
1890 John Roberts
1891 Lonnie Livingston
1895 Grant Carter
1897 Charles Buck
1901 Grant Carter
1902 Dr Fitzsimmons
1903 EL Price
1904 Grant Carter
1905 Grant Carter
1906 Herb Cook
1910 Walter Cline
1911 JD Contreras
1913 Juan Olea
1914 Commodore Passey
1915 Mrs Henry Ritter
1917 Ursula Carter
1918 Della Ritter
1921 Stella Robinson
1922 Walter Cline
1923 Walter Cline
1924 Van Dickson
1925 Lawton Champie
1926 Lawton Champie
1927 Cort Carter
1928 Walter Cline
1929 GW Cox
1930 Cort Carter
1931 Cort Carter
1932 Cort Carter
1891 Ben Blackburn
1893 Alejo Ortega
1895 George Brown
1897 Black Chappo
1898 Johnny Munds
1900 Dolph Evans
1901 James Carter
1903 Henry Ritter
1904 Jim Carter
1905 James Carter Lon Lancaster Walter Cline
1906 Herb Clark
1915 CC Jackson
1916 CC Jackson
1919 Clay McGonagill
1926 Jim Gardner
1937 Mike Stuart
1939 Joe Cornwall
BULL RIDING CHAMPIONS
1889 Jeff Young
1931 Homer Ward
1932 Homer Ward
1933 Elmer Hepler
1934 Frank Schneider
1935 Tom Bride
1936 Smoky Snyder
1937 Smoky Snyder
1938 Lee Farris
1939 Clarence Stockdale
1940 Shorty Allard
1941 Dutch Martin
1942 Hershel Downs
1943 Logue Morris
1944 CL Shontz
1945 Linden Litten
1946 Cyril Stewart
1947 Lyman Tenney
1948 Eddie Jacques
1949 Gib Stratton
1943 Logue Morris
1944 Penny Henderson
1945 Tommy Williams
1946 Dutch Van Brunt
1947 Walter Pruitt
1948 Walt Stuart
1949 Chuck Sheppard
1950 Logue Morris
1951 Poog Brenton
1952 Jesse Jones
1953 Poog Brenton Bill Wyrick
1954 Chuck Sheppard
1955 Dick Mrray
1956 Steve Chambers
1957 Jack Swauger
1996 Brad Gjermundson
1997 Jake Ireland
1998 Jess Martin
1999 Jim Dewey Brown
2000 Scott Johnson
2001 Craig Latham
2002 Bart Nichols
2003 Craig Latham Jim Brown
2004 Rawley McFarland
2005 Cody DeMoss
2006 Rod Hay
2007 Shaun Stroh
2008 Cody DeMoss ............ 87
2009 Jesse Kruse 84
2010 Dustin Flundra 87
2011Jacobs Crawley 82
1934 Carl Arnold
1935 Gorman Arnold
1936 Ed Dixon
1937 Breezy Cox Grace Mullen
1938 George Cline
Cort Carter
1939 Joe Cline
1940 Walter Cline
Cort Carter
Clarence Conway
Shorty Hudson
ROPING CHAMPIONS
1888 Juan Levias
1889 Jeff Young
1901 Tot Young
1913 Tom Mix
1914 Lon Jordan
1915 Bill Simon
1916 Frank McCoy
1917 Jack Garnett
1920 Cheyenne Kiser
1921 Everett Hardin
Lee Robinson
1922 Sterling Ellis
1923 Dud Thomas
1924 Howard Carter
1925 David Hill
1926 Everett Bowman
1927 John Kyle
1929 Charley Matli
1930 Jack Kennedy
1950 Rocky Rutherford
1951 Bob Mitchell
1952 Stan Neal
1953 Arnold Jones
1954 Donnie Adams
1955 Lynn Sheppard
1956 Joel Sublette Dick Carr
1957 Gib Stratton
1958 Torn Parrish
1959 Harold Fisher
1960 Sonny Payne
1961 Cliff Carr
1962 Don Adams
Clyde Fisher
Joel Sublette
1963 Joel Sublette
1964 Terry Couch
1965 Terry Couch
1966 Joel Sublette
1967 Joey Bishop
1985 Ernie Hoehn Team
1986 Stoneburner Tram
Dale Mienecke 1993 Brad Gleason 1994 Craig Wakefield 14.4/3 1995 JW Aldrich
1996 Brad Orick
1997 Steve Duhon
1998 Rope Meyers
1999 Spade Duvall
1931 Lawton Champie
1932 Everett Bowman 1933 Everett Bowman
Lawton Champie
Leonard Ward
Everett Bowman
Hugh Bennett
Joe Thompson
Len Smith
Barney Willis
Elmo Carr
Frank Banks
Clyde Taylor
Gene Holm
Fred Cook
Dell Haverty 1948 Leo Patton
1949 Jay Parsons 1950 Poog Brenton 1951 Del Brooks 1952 Dick Williams
1953 Bud Baldwin 1954 Homer Pettigrew 1955 Dave Dolton Don Adams 1956 Dell Haverty
Dick Williams 1958 Ted Reed 1959 Poog Brenton
Floyd Baze
Elliott Calhoun
Bill Henderson 1963 Frank Powell 1964 Arnold Jones 1965 Bill Gatlin
1966 George Andress
1967 Joel Sublette
1968 Walter Wyatt
1969 Frank Powell
1970 Leo Camarillo
1971 Leo Camarillo
1972 Walter Wyatt
2000 Rod Lyman
2001 Birch Negaard
2002 Joey Bell Jr
2003 John Kieckhefer
2004 Teddy Johnson 2005 Roger Anderson
2006 Rod Lyman
2007 Bo Bleil
2008 Ryan Jarrett 2009 Matt Reeves
Dean McIntyre – 10.1/2
1987 Ernie Hoehn Team
1990 Bert Hamilton Team
1991 Dan Agin Team
1992 Dan Agin Team
1993 Ron Dutras Team Jr. Hollander Team
1994 Kurt Banks Team
1995 Antonio Mendive Team
1996 Mike Bozarth Team
1997 Eric James Team
1998 Jason Sisk Team
1999 Jerrod Horner Team
2007 Loren Ortega Team Charlie Logan Team
2009 Team Agin.com
2010 Team Agin.com
2011 TC Buntin Team
2012 BCB Team
2013 Pee Wee Buntin Team
2014 Blackbird Yoga Team
2015 Gary White Team
2016 Jason Smith Team
2017 TC Buntin Team
Brandon Begay Team
2018 Team Agin
Cutter Parsons
WILD HORSE RACE
(aka Team Bronc Riding)
1913 WY Peck
1918 Harry Vandergrift
1919 Harry Henderson
1920 Cheyenne Kiser
1921 Al Littrell
1922 LE Smith
1923 LB Cox
1924 Ray Minter
1925 Carl Arnold
1926 Homer Ward
1927 Doc Pardee
1928 Tunie DeBell
1929 OD Dominy
1930 Sam Fancher Joe Dunn
1931 George Fisher
1932 Tom Bride
2019 Team Agin
2020 Team Agin
RELAY HORSE RACING
1913 CE Koontz
1914 Walter Cline
1915 Alton Gardner
1916 Walter Cline
1917 Frank Cain
1918 Tom Wells
1919 Tom Wells
1920 Tom Wells
1921 Walter Cline
1922 Doc Pardee
1923 Van Dickson
1924 Ed Bowman
1925 John Osborne
1926 Ed Bowman
1927 Ed Bowman
1928 Ed Bowman
1929 Ed Bowman
1930 Ed Bowman
1931 Ed Bowman
1932 Ed Bowman
1933 Carl Arnold
1934 Carl Arnold
1935 Gorman Arnold
1936 Ed Dixon Port Parker
1937 Gorman Arnold
1938 Floyd Murphy
1939 Dave Davis
1940 Buck Nichols
Bareback Bronc Champion
1914 Doc Pardee
1915 Bob Anderson
1916 Doc Pardee
1917 Lon Jordan
1919 Cheyenne Kiser
1920 Cheyenne Kiser
1921 Cheyenne Kiser
1922 Howard Carter
1923 Ray Kane
1924 Bruce Redenbaugh
1925 Tommy Scarlett
1926 Charlie Fancher
1927 Charlie Fancher
1928 Ingersoll Heckle
1934 Frank Schneider
1935 Frank Schneider
1936 Joe Burrell
1937 Smoky Snyder
1938 Bob Estes
1941 Wag Blesing
1945 Bob Muller
1946 Ray Noe
1947 Vic Dossey
1948 Rockey Lewis
1949 Vic Dossey
1950 Arnold Jones
1973 Richard Morgan
1974 Dick Aronson
1975 Wayne Jennings
1976 Cliff Armstrong
1977 Bill Owen
1978 Wayne Jennings
1979 Tim Tierney
1980 Dennis Karre
1981 Ben Hawkins
1982 Olie Smith
1983 Bob Miller
1984 Gary Green 1985 Marty Melvin 1986 Brent Hill
1987 Tommy Puryear
1988 David Courmier
1989 John Jones
1933 Shorty Allard
1934 Raymond Seeley
1935 Hugh Clingman
1936 Ken Hargis
1939 Dick Denny
1940 Sid Despain
1949 Leo Patton
1950 Vernon Mounce
1972 Dusty Mackin
1973 Carl Minnick
Hap Hansen
1974 Bill Hitchcock
1975 Keith Jones
1979 Danny Levie
1980 Danny Levie
1981 Ed Kyte
1982 Mike Nolan Team
1978 WC Sibley
1979 Dave Brock
1980 Buford Neugebauer
1981 Roy Cooper
1982 Leo Camarillo
1983 Jerry Jetton
1984 Dee Pickett
1985 Mike Freeland
1986 Ralph McKinley
1917 H Eubank
1920 George Cline
1921 Lee Robinson
1922 George Cline
1966
1968
1969 Paul Mays
1923 Arthur Beloat
1924 Ed Bowman
1925 Ike Rude
1926 Omer Maxwell
1927 Ed Bowman
1928 Wid Fuller
1929 Arthur Beloat
1930 Jake McClure
1931 Breezy Cox
1932 Roy Admas
1933 Jake McClure
1934 Carl Shepard
1935 Arthur Beloat
1936 Jake McClure
1937 Richard Merchant
1938 Juan Salinas
1939 Lawton Champie
1940 Ike Walker
1941 Frank Sproul
1942 Bill Walls
1943 Wid Fuller
1944 Oscar Walls
1945 John Cline
1946 Buck Nichols
1947 Joe Cornwall
1948 Gilbert Nichols
1949 JD Hollyman
1950 Fred Darnell
1951 Cliff Whatley
1952 Fred Darnell
1953 Roy Snedigar
1954 JK Harris
1955 Walt Nichols
1956 Clyde Alfred
1957 Asbury Schell
1958 Walt Nichols
1959 Walt Nichols
1960 Gordon Wilkerson
1987 James Zant
1988 Scott Baker
1989 James Zant
1990 Mike Johnson
1991 Jerry Jetton
1992 Ralph McKinley
Ken Bacque
1993 Roy Cooper
1994 Rusty Sewalt 29.5/3
1995 Keith Hudson
1996 Blair Burk
1997 Clay Cerny
1998 Shane Hatch
1999 Cody Ohl
2000 Blair Burk
2001 Jerome Schneeberger
2002 Scott Kormos
2003 Jerome Schneeberger
2004 Terry Kitchens
2005 Stran Smith
2006 Justin Maass
2007 Adam Gray
2008 Trevor Brazile
2009 Hunter Herrin
2010 Justin Maass - ....... 19.5/2
2011 Corey Solomon
Cory Solomon
2015 Marcos Costa
2016 Rhen Richard 16.7/2 2017 Caleb Smidt 18.1/2 2018 Cory Solomon.......
2019 J.D. Kibbe
2020 Hunter Herrin
TEAM ROPING
CHAMPIONS
1919 Art Sanders
Clay McGonagill
1920 Oscar Clay
Guy Schultz
Arthur Beloat
1931 Homer Ward
Dick Conley
1932 Everett Bowman
Roy Adams
1933 Arthur Beloat
Jake McClure
1934 Arthur Beloat
Lawrence Conley
1935 Dick Conley
Tommy Rhodes
1936 Breezy Cox
John Rhodes
1937 Mike Stuart
Adolph Gill
1938 Asbury Schell
Joe Bassett
1940 Arthur McEuen
Delmar Asay
1941 Jack Clem
Bill Walls
1942 Buck Nichols
Gilbert Nichols
1943 Lawton Champie
Joe Lambert
1944 Arthur Beloat
Lawton Champie
1945 Arthur Beloat
1954 John Clem
John Rhodes
1955 John Clem
John Rhodes
1956 John Rhodes
Dale Smith
1957 John Clem
Ed Schell
1958 Buck Nichols
Gilbert Nichols
1959 John Clem
Art Arnold
1960 Glenn Motes
Don Nchols
1961 John Clem
Tex Bidegain
1962 Glenn Motes
Choc Hamilton
1963 Dale Smith
Eddie Schell
1964 Gilbert Nichold
Howard Nichols
1965 Al Gastelum
Dick Richards
1966 Glenn Motes
Choc Hamilton
1967 Nick Nicholas
Gilbert Nichols
1961 Don Nichols
1962 Dale Smith
1963 Jim Anderson
1964 Duane Reece
1965 Dale Smith
1966 David Eastlake
1967 Rick Snure
1968 Jim Anderson
1969 Howard Nichols
1970 Bill Snure
1971 Ron Poindexter
1972 Bill Darnell
1973 Allen Brunson
1974 Gary Good
1975 Bill Darnell
1976 Pow Carter
1977 Brad Smith
1921 Perlie Morris
Logan Morris
1922 Perlie Morris
Logan Morris
1923 Walter Cline
JC Cline
1924 SA Faust
Tom Wells
1925 Arthur Beloat
Ike Rude
1927 Carl Arnold
Jack Trainor
1928 Wid Fuller
Logan Morris
1929 Arthur Beloat
Roy Adams
1930 Dick Conley
Joe Bassett
1946 Gilbert Nichols
Hank Alrich
1947 Bo Giles
AD Browning
1948 Jack Clem
Charlie Mickle
1949 Joe Bassett
Joe Glenn
1950 Fred Darnell
Joe Glenn
1951 Fred Lambert
Joe Lambert
1952 Asbury Schell
Joe Bassett
1953 Buck Nichols
Gilbert Nichols
1968 Joe Glenn
Art Arnold
1969 Leo Camarillo
Bucky Bradford
1970 Jerold Camarillo
John Miller
1971 Leo Camarillo
Bill Darnell
1972 Ken Lumen
Jim Rodriquez
1973 Les Hirdes
John Deaton
1974 HP Evetts
Jerold Camarillo
1975 Leo Camarillo
HP Evetts
1976 Reg Camarillo
Jerold Camarillo
1977 Jeff Barnsby
Ed Hirdes
1978 Mark Arnold
Fred Davis
1979 Doyle Gellerman
Walt Woodard
1980 Leo Camarillo
Tee Woolman
1981 Billy Darnell
Jim Compton
1982 George Richards
Matt Silveira
1983 Clay O’Brien Cooper
Bret Beach
1984 Doyle Gellerman
Walt Woodard
1985 Jimmie B Cooper
Allen Bach
1986 Joe Parsons
Clay Parsons
1987 Dick Yates
JD Yates
1988 Clay Parsons
Joe Parsons
1989 David Motes
Dennis Watkins
1990 Rube Woolsey
Kory Koontz
1991 Matt Tyler
Mike Beers & Clay O’Brien Cooper
Jake Barnes
1992 Clay O’Brien Cooper
Jake Barnes
1993 Tim Ross
Dee King
1994 Tee Woolman 23.2/3
Rick Skelton
1995 Terry Leonard
Tony Boggs & George Ishman
Billy Holland
1996 Kevin Stewart
Bobby Harris
1997 Matt Tyler
Monty Joe Petska
1998 Larry Harris
Cody Guess
1999 G Allen
Trey Johnson
2000 Speed Williams
Rich Skelton
2009 Derrick Begay
Cesar de la Cruz
2010 Charly Crawford –11.2/2
Russel Cardoza
2011 Justin Yost/Kyle Crick
Nick Rawlings/ 12.2/2
Dakota Kirchenschlager
2012 Derrick Begay 13.3/2
Cesar de la Cruz
2013 Brandon Beers 11.8/2
Jim Ross Cooper
2014 Levi Grantham 12.4/2
Dennis Watkins
2015 Brady Tryan 11.8/2
B.J. Campbell
2016 Riley Minor 12.4/2
Brady Minor
2017 Chad Master 13.1/2
Travis Graves
2018 Luke Brown .......... 12.0/2
Jake Long
2019 Britt Smith 13.1/2
Jake Smith
2020 Clay Tryan ........... 11.9/2
Jake Long
SINGLE STEER ROPING CHAMPIONS
1982 Pecos Shannon
1983 Pete McEntire
1984 Larry Noland
1985 Charlie Price
2012 Chet Herren – 39.1/3
2013 Brad Prather – 38.5/3
2014 Shay Good 42.3/3
2015 Vin Fisher 44.0/3
2016 Jess Tierney 40.2/3
2017 Mike Chase 37.3/3
Bryce Davis 37.3/3
2018 Rocky Patterson 38.9/3
2019 Rocky Patterson 38.9/3
2020 Garrett Hale 41.6/3
ALL-AROUND COWBOY CHAMPIONS
1920 Cheyenne Kiser
1921 Walter Lynch
1922 Lee Robinson
1923 JC Cline
1941 Joe Tyree
1942 Joe Tyree
1943 Joe Lambert
1944 Lawton Champie
1945 Joe Bassett
1946 Fred Cook
1947 Sid Despain
1948 Pete Pascoe
1949 Joe Bassett
1950 Logue Morris
1951 Arnold Jones
1952 Fred Darnell
1953 Arnold Jones
1954 Don Whisenant
1955 John Clem
1956 Clyde Allred
1957 Asbury Schell
1958 Walt Nichols
1958 John Clem
1960 Glen Motes
1961 Arnold Jones
1962 Joel Sublette
1963 Chuck Sheppard
1964 Walt Nichols
1965 Walt Nichols
1966 George Andress
1967 Nick Nichols
1968 Don Nichols
1969 Leo Camarillo
1970 Doug Brown
1971 Leo Camarillo
1972 Leo Camarillo
1973 Larry Mahan
1974 Bill Darnell
1975 Leo Camarillo
1976 Rick Snure
1977 Brad Smith
1978 Sherrick Grantham
1979 Bob Monroe
1980 Brad Smith
1981 Ron Poindexter
1982 Leo Camarillo
1983 JD Yates
1984 Dave Brock
1985 Jimmie B Cooper
1986 Joe Parsons
1987 Lance Robinson
1988 Joe Parsons
1989 Steve Duhon
1990 Olie Smith
1991 Clay O’Brien Cooper
1992 Joe Parsons
2012 Clay Parsons TD/TR
2013 Cimmaron Boardman TD/TR
2014 Rick Kieckhefer SR/TD/TR
2015 Brent Lewis SR/TD
2016 JoJo Lemond ......... SR/TR
2017 Trell Etbauer SW/TD
2018 Seth Hall TR/TD
2019 Tanner Green TR/TD
2020 JC Mortensen ....... BB/BR
WILD COW MILKING
1936 Arthur Beloat Lee Barkdoll
1940 Chas Burgess Joe Tyree
1941 Olan Sims
Bill Roer
1942 Tommy Walker
Bill Walls
Roy Prather
1943 Joe Lambert
Frank Banks
1944 Clarence Balcom
Ivan Jones
Charlie Matli
1945 Joe Bassett
1946 Clarence Balcom
Charley Matli
Ralph Stringfield
1948 Tommy Rhodes
Bobo Chapman
Logue Morris
1955 Joe Bassett
1956 Clyde Allred
1957 John Clem
1959 Don Nichols
1960 Clyde Allred
1961 Jack Branham
1962 Cecil Billingsley
1963 Chuck Sheppard
1964 Cliff Whatley Poog Brenton
1965 Walt Nichols
Cliff Whatley
1966 Pat Orr
Gary Orr
1967 Glenn Motes
1971 Jack Branham
1972 Gene Ray Wood
1973 Bo Hunsaker
Bucky Bradford
1964 Shirley Davis
1965 Shirley Davis
1966 Shirley Davis
1967 Alexa Allred
1968 Sammie Thurman
1969 Barabara Baer
1970 Diane Morris
1971 Alexa Allred
1972 Alexa Allred
1973 Kathy Gary Fran Snure
1974 June Evetts
1975 Debbie Richards
1976 Joy Paddock
1977 Gail Tyson
1978 Phyllis Underdown
1981 Lee Ann Guilkey
1982 Bonnie Lemaire
1979 Gail Tyson
1980 Kathy McGuire
1981 Lee Ann Guilkey
1982 Bonnie Lemaire
1983 Kay Cline Goode
1984 Wanda Cagliari
1985 Rose Webb
1986 Barrie Smith
1987 Rose Webb
1988 Marci Alderman
1989 Rose Webb
2001 Mark Simon
Bret Tonozzi
2002 Jake Barnes
Clay O’Brien Cooper
2003 Jay Adams
Cody Hintz
2004 Rich Skelton
Speed Williams
2005 Michael Jones
Trevor Brazile
2006 David Key
Kory Koontz
2007 Tee Woolman
Cory Petska
2008 Cody O’Dell
JW Borrego
1924 Ed Bowman
1925 Ike Rude
1926 Jim Gardner
1927 Carl Arnold
1928 Wid Fuller
1929 Arthur Beloat
1930 Jake McClure
1931 Lawton Champie
1932 Everett Bowman
1933 Jake McClure
1934 Lawton Champie
1935 Arthur Beloat
1936 Tom Bride
1937 Mike Stuart
1938 Asbury Schell
1939 Joe Cornwall
1940 Delmar Asay
1993 Kory Koonz
1994 KC Jones TD/TR
1995 Cody Lee
1996 Herbert Theroiot
1997 Brent Lewis
1998 Shane Hatch
1999 Chad Hager
2000 Scott Johnston
2001 Tom McFarland
2002 Cash Myers
2003 Bart Bailey
2004 Trevor Brazille
2007 Cutter Parsons
2008 Ryan Jarrett
2009 Trevor Brazille
2010 Joseph Parsons
2011 Bill Snure
1974 Art Savoini
1975 Sonny Stazenski
1976 Jim Martiny
1977 Sherrick Grantham
Bob Lester
1978 Dale Smith
Bob Lester
1979 Tanner Grantham
1981 Tom Ferguson
BARREL RACING CHAMPIONS
1959 Phyllis Turnage
1960 Gerry Wales
1961 Sherry Laughlin
1962 Kay Sublette
1963 Pat Hatberg
1990 Joy Jean Bassinger
1991 Twila Haller
1992 Twila Haller
1993 Twila Haller
1994 Kathy Montono 53.58/3
1995 Sherry Potter Cervi
1996 Sherry Cervi
1997 Kelly Yates Gail Hillman
1998 Tona Wright
1999 Kay Blandford
2000 Judi Reed
2001 Renee Gossett
2002 Jolee Lautaret
2003 Patti Jo Higdon
2004 Sheri Sinor-Estrada
2005 Sheri Sinor-Estrada
2006 Sheri Sinor-Estrada
2007 Brittany Hofstetter
2008 Maegan Reichert
2009 Brittany Pharr Pozzi
2010 Brenda Mays
2011 Brenda Mays
2012 Nancy Hunter
2019 Sarah Kieckhefer
Megan Champion
2020 Wenda Johnson .. 34.11/2
WRANGLER BULLFIGHT CHAMPIONS
1985 Rick Chatman
1986 Miles Hare
1987 Skipper Voss
Anthony Adams
Danielle Adams
Rennie Anderson
Rita Anderson
Caitlin Arnold
Mark Arnold
Rebecca Arnold
Christina Avilucea
Jeff Bashaw
Chauna Bashaw
Jack Berry
Briam Besser
Steve Blair
Shelby Blocker
Jerry Borgelt
Marty Borgelt
Barbara Boyer
John Boyer
Martha Brogen
Cheyenne Brown
Glenn Brown
Jim Dewey Brown
Dana Butner
Joe Butner
Josh Butner
Matt Camacho
Cassandra Carlson
Matt Carlson
John Carson
Pat Carson
Dianne Cartee
Jim Cartee
Liberty Casarez
Mark Clark
Susie Clark
Becky Cochell
Jerry Cochell
Marsha Collier
Jordan Cook
Joe Cyr
Lois Cyr
Nicole Daniel
Michael Davidson
Susan Davidson
Suzy Davidson
Chip Davis
Karen Davis
Roy Day
Shelly Day
Stephen Dee
Robert Demicell
Karen DeTorres
Darla DeVille
Mary Lynn Doyle
Michael Doyle
Anita “Dee” Dudley
Gary Eddy
Annette Ellithorpe
Wayne Ellithorpe
Jose Espitia
Ivory Fulkerson
Bryan Gabbard
Stephanie Garside
Eddy Gary
Pamela Gearhart
Yvonne Gibb-Schmidt
Cheryl Gilchrist
Tammie Gilchrist
Cheryl Giraud
Jim Giraud
Pamela Gossman
Robin Gossman
Christina Graff
Denine Graff
Darrin Gray
Shannon Gray
Brenda Griffin
Tony Griffin
Richard Guinn
Jodi Hamilton
Kathleen Hanna
Ronald Hanna
Chad Harris
Felicia Harris
Cathy Heath
John Heiney
Sheri Heiney
Spike Hicks
Gayle Higgs
Jim Higgs
Rex T Hinshaw
Charles Hoover
Emily Hoover
Bob Huffman
Lori Hunt
Brianne Huza
Cherye Jechura
Steve Jechura
Jayla Jechura
Jamie Johnson
Jeb Johnson
Diane Judge
Barbara Karkula
Ken Karkula
Jerry Kipp
LeeAnn Kipp
Chad Kite
J.C. Konecny
Peggy Konecny
Kent Krumm
Kelly Jo Lepler
Morgan Lepler
Beverly Lesniak
Ray Lesniak
Kerrie Long
Robby Long
Frank Lopez
Kymberli Lopez
Richard Lopez
Sylvia Lopez
Renelda Lord
Leslie Lovatto
Michael Lovatto
Vicki Lovatto
Susan Maddox
Sue E Manuel
Jody Martinelli
Anthony Martino
Brooke Martino
Greg McClintock
Sandra McClintock
Gail McElhinney
Jack McElhinney
Fernando Mendigutia
Greg Mengarelli
Sheila Mengarelli
Mark Meredith
Tommy Meredith
Brett Mills
Richelle Mills
Carl Minnick
Dale Minnick
David Misencik
Christina Moffatt
Troy Moffatt
John Moody
David Morano
Marilyn Morano
Shelley Murphy
Willie Muscenti
Jennifer Myers
Steve Myers
Anna Mysliwiec
Richard Mysliwiec
Kim Nabb
Neil Nabb
Stanley Narwold
Tammy Nava
Pedro Navarro
Patrick Nielsen
Jeff O
Harry Oberg
Bill Oden
Kay Oden
Marty Orosz
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Kelly Owsley
Ronnie Owsley
Paul Parcenue
Guthrie Parkard Jr
Penny Pauletto
Mary Phelps
Julie Pindzola
Celeste Poggenburg
Rick Poggenburg
Rick Ponce
Elliot Prichard
Keith Rader
Victoria Rader
Dorenda Ramsey
Ruth Ramsey
Jack Ray
David Rhodes
Jen Rhodes
Ken Rhodes
Jim Riley
Linda Riley
Alicia Robinson
Casey Robinson
Linda Robinson
Michael Robinson
Danielle Roger
Maggie Ross-Clunis
Dennis Rowland
Theresa Rowland
Katrine Salinas
Pat Sayers
Helene Schaffer
Steven Schmidt
James Sealey
Denise Silva
Jack Silva
Campbell Smith
Deborah Smith
Kitty Smith
Sue E StCin
Brenda Steelman
Gary Steinmetz
Janet Steinmetz
Allen Stempski
Joan Stempski
Byron Sumrow
Janice Sumrow
Mary Ann Suttles
Jeanna Tendall
Cal Terry
Roberta Terry
Debbie Tuttle
Allyene VanDerHeyden
Deb Vaughan
Jayla Vaughan
Marc Vetere
Dale Wagner
Melle Dee Wagner
Lorna Walker
Rich Warinner
Tonja Warinner
Jerry Watson
Charlene Weaver
Marta Weyenberg
Ron Weyenberg
Charlie Williams
Debbie Williams
Irene Winter
Michael Winter
Albin Wiseniewski
Barbars Witt
Nina Wright
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The character of Jack Daniel’s, the whiskey with the iconic black-andwhite label on the equally iconic square bottle, is bound up in the character of Jack Daniel, the brand’s founder and first master distiller.
The Jack Daniel’s website suggests its founder Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel was born in 1850 (the date on his tombstone); the Tennessee state library website lists his birthdate as Sept. 5, 1846; and in a 2004 biography, author Peter Krass says he was born in January 1849. Whatever his actual birthdate, his parents were Calaway and Lucinda Cook Daniel and he was of Welsh, Scottish, English and Scots-Irish descent.
Jack ran away from home after his father died and was taken in by a
local lay preacher and moonshine distiller named Dan Call and he began learning the distilling trade. In 1875, after receiving an inheritance from his father’s estate, Jack founded a legally registered distilling business with Call. He took over the whole thing shortly afterward when Call quit for religious reasons. In 1884 Jack purchased the hollow and land where the distillery is now located.
A physically small man only 5 feet 2 inches tall, Jack Daniel devoted his time to the ideal of making a whiskey that, thanks to charcoal filtering and other factors, he could be proud to sell at a premium price. He wanted his whiskey to be special so he used only the iron-free cave spring water on his property, along with the finest
grains, filtering it through ten feet of sugar maple charcoal.
Jack Daniel never married and did not have any children. However, he took his nephews under his wing – one of whom was Lemuel “Lem” Motlow, who was skilled with numbers and was soon doing all the distillery’s bookkeeping. In 1907, due to failing health, Jack gave the distillery to Lem and another nephew. Lem soon bought out his partner and operated the distillery for about 40 years.
Jack died in 1911. For July 4, 2011, Jack Daniel’s launched a media blitz to celebrate the independent American spirit. A poster from that campaign reads, “56 men signed the Declaration of Independence, one man put it in a bottle.”
