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 23, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Scott Byron Gore was born December 16, 1880, at Deadwood, South Dakota. The son of Bruce ‘R.B.’ and Ella (Ayres) Gore, he came to North Dakota in the 1890s and worked for the Pierre Wibaux W Bar Ranch. Scott homesteaded along the Little Missouri River, establishing a...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 23, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Guy Anthony Fox was born in 1902 and lived his entire life on the Fort Berthold Reservation–Elbowoods, Shell Creek and Mandaree. As a youth, he went to school at Shell Creek and later attended Pipestone Indian School in MN. A member of the Flint Knife clan, his...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 23, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
George Defender was born at Kenel, South Dakota, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 1891, a son of George Sr. and Mary (Packineau) Defender. At 16, he started working on the Dye and Zimmerman Ranch, a half-million-acre lease spread throughout the reservation...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Inductees, Pre-1940 Rodeo
Elmer Clark was born March 12, 1894, to George ‘Stuttering Clark’ and Emma (Spinny) Clark on Bull Creek southeast of Belfield. The family moved to 11 miles northwest of Amidon in 1902, where he attended school nearby and later in Dickinson and Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
