by chris@rosepapacreative.com | May 12, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, Inductees
Ray Erhardt was best known for his contributions to the rodeo arena with Ray’s Rodeo Photos. During his photography career, he snapped pictures in North Dakota and beyond from local western events, to ND high school and amateur rodeo, rodeo pageantry, barrel racings,...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 3, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, Inductees
Walter Piehl Jr. has brought credit to western heritage through his internationally known artistic talents, his preservation of rodeo and western heritage through his art, and his varied involvement in the sport of rodeo in North Dakota. Walter Piehl has been a rodeo...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 2, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, Inductees
he Tibor Brothers, members of a family of 14 children, began playing for local events when they lived south of Almont. It all started when a grandfather gave them their first musical instruments. First known as the ‘Rhythm Cowboys’, Albert, Charlie and Bernie played...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, Inductees
James C. “Cy” Taillon’s influence on the sport of rodeo cannot be underestimated. Called the “golden voice” of professional rodeo, millions of people heard his rich voice over the microphone at countless rodeo performances. Cy was rodeo’s Walter Cronkite – slim,...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, Inductees
Robert Rindt was well known in North Dakota for his more than 40 years of teaching; performing rope, whip, trick shooting and tumbling acts; and producing rodeos and other entertainment shows. His wife, Doris, was his partner in many of those acts, and they were once...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Arts & Entertainment, Inductees
Einar Hanson Olstad was born March 7, 1878, at Lillehammer, Norway, a son of Hans and Ida (Kirkebø) Olstad. He was one year old when the family moved to Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory, where his father established a blacksmith shop. Einar began painting when he was...
