Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Pendleton Round-Up is a major annual rodeo in the northwestern United States, at Pendleton in northeastern Oregon. Held at the Pendleton Round-Up Stadium during the second full week of September each year since 1910, the rodeo brings roughly 50,000 people every year to the city. [ 2 ]
George Fletcher (1890-1973) was a cowboy and rodeo rider raised near Pendleton, Oregon. In 1911 he took second place in the Pendleton Round-Up Rodeo, in 1969 he became one of 10 people inducted into the first class of the Pendleton Round-Up Hall of Fame, and in 2001 he was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Begun in 1969, it was the first hall of fame started by an individual show, the Pendleton Round-Up. [1] Exhibits focus on show memorabilia, and cowboy and Native American artifacts, including a full-sized teepee , saddles , clothing, Indian regalia, photographs, weapons, trophies, and wagons.
She immigrated to the United States at age 14 and first trained as a hair dresser. She began her rodeo career riding during 1911 in Los Angeles, California, where she won the bronc riding competition. At the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, during 1912, she won both the trick riding and cowgirls' bronc riding contests. She was also a ...
At the Pendleton Roundup, 1915 or 1916. Jackson Sundown (1863 – December 18, 1923), born Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn (meaning Blanket of the Sun), [1] was a Native American rodeo rider who has become a folk-hero for his mythic performance in the 1916 Pendleton Round-Up, largely popularized by Ken Kesey's novel The Last Go 'Round.
Fiesta de los Vaqueros, a week-long event in Tucson; World's Oldest Rodeo in Prescott, White Mountain Apache Tribe Fair and Rodeo starts on a Wednesday night with the Thunder on the Mountain Bullbash ending with the finals on Monday; World's Oldest Continuous Rodeo in Payson, started in 1884. Third weekend of August.
Pendleton Ho Hos players (4 P) People from Pendleton, Oregon (1 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Pendleton, Oregon" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In addition to the woolen mills, Pendleton is also famous for its annual rodeo, the Pendleton Round-Up, a part of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA)-sanctioned rodeo circuit. The town is the cultural center of Eastern Oregon. Pendleton's "Old Town" is listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.