Rodeo
Stories with a focus relating to the Rodeo; its past and present
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Rodeo and the American Spirit
This article is dedicated to the memory of Dora Jane Martell Brockway (1939-2026). Dora served as a District 13 trustee beginning during the tenure of the NDCHF’s first Executive Director, Darrell Dorgan until her death. She was a summer volunteer at the Hall and a contributor to the Cowboy Chronicle. Throughout her life, Dora was a steadfast advocate for preserving and sharing the heritage of North Dakota and the American West. Her love for that heritage, and for the state she called home, never wavered. Few traditions are more uniquely American than rodeo. Rising from the everyday work of cowboys, it grew into more than just a competition of riding…
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Pioneering Women in Rodeo
Published in the Cowboy Chronicle; Publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame June 2023 Theodore Roosevelt, attending the Wild West show that was part of the entertainment for his Rough Riders reunion, graciously bowed to the diminutive teenage girl and applauded her success. Roosevelt had watched in awe as she roped a running steer and beat all the cowboys for first prize. He told her none of his Rough Rider troops could have done a better job. It was 1900 and the vice-presidential candidate had put together the second Rough Riders reunion in Oklahoma City. Roosevelt’s brief but transformative ranching career in North Dakota set in him an…
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Little Yellow Jacket
Maybe the first bars of the Elton John classic ”Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” was going through Little Yellow Jacket’s head as he only took 2.6 seconds to dash the million dollar dream of Shivers.
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“It’s a hard way to make an easy living” : Wayne Herman to be Inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame
It was hard on you; rodeo is not as easy as it might appear. I used to like to tell people, it’s a hard way to make an easy living”.
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