by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 15, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Henry ‘Almit’ Breuer was born November 3, 1935, in Elbowoods. He grew up on the Fort Berthold Reservation, where he rodeoed, ranched and farmed his entire life. Breuer is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes. Almit started riding exhibition bareback...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 2, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Leo Sorensen was born to pioneer parents on their farm north of Garrison on March 30, 1909. He would live his entire life in North Dakota. Leo was destined from the beginning to be a cowboy. He went on his first cattle drive while attending grade school, helping move...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Joseph Frederick Wicks was born May 11, 1902, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was orphaned soon after birth, came to North Dakota on an orphan train and was placed with the Frederick Fix family in Mandan. In 1912, William Langer became Joe’s legal guardian. Joe was...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 29, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Howard Wanna was born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota in 1906. Sent off to Indian boarding school in Wahpeton, he met and became fast friends with Martin Old Dog from Fort Berthold. He found his way to Elbowoods and spent many years with the...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
John ‘Johnny’ Quilliam was born December 3, 1905, in Morris, Minnesota. He started his rodeo career at age 14 and, for 16 years, was spurring wildly at local rodeos. He once said that he was never quite as showy in the saddle bronc events. He tried all of the rodeo...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Louis ‘Louie’ Pelissier was born in Medora, North Dakota, on March 20, 1897, the son of George and Kate (Roberts) Pelissier. Raised on Sully Creek south of Medora, he had little formal schooling, but could “figure in his head” faster than his well-educated siblings....
