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A saddle bronc rider competes in the Cody Stampede Rodeo on July 1, 2016, at Stampede Park.

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and outdoorsman who enjoys time national organizations. In 2006,
PUBLISHER: John Malmberg in the mountains and working with Devenyns won the People’s Choice
fellow ranchers. After an automobile Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show,
EDITOR: Amber Peabody accident in 1974, Devenyns spent a and in 2010 won the Artist’s Choice
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Celebrating 100
years of rodeo
By LEW FREEDMAN
Reporter

When does a century not equal 100 years?

When discussing the Buffalo Bill Cody Stampede
Rodeo.
Cody is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the
Cody Stampede this July 4 week. But technically, this
is not the 100th Stampede rodeo, nor the 100th an-
niversary of the creation of the Cody Stampede Board
of Directors that is the event’s governing body.
However, 100 years have passed since the Inde-
pendence Day tradition of holding a rodeo began in
the Rodeo Capital of the World.
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, who this town is
named for, died in Denver in January 1917. To honor
the memory of the prominent Old West scout and
western show impresario, Cody held a rodeo in the
summer of 1919. This was not the Stampede, but
what was thought to be a one-time occurrence.
Some prominent Cody residents thought having a
rodeo was such a good idea an organizational meet-
ing took place in 1920 and the Stampede Board was
formed. That was 99 years ago.
However, this will not be the 100th Cody Stam-
pede Rodeo because none were held in 1943, 1944
and 1945 due to World War II.
The Indianpolis 500 faced a similar conundrum a
few years ago.
Indy made its debut in 1911, so the 100th anni-
versary of the first race was 2011. But, just like the
Stampede, the automotive race took a hiatus during
World War II after also going dark during World War I.
What organizers of that race did was celebrate in
2011 and again in 2016 when the real 100th race
was scheduled.
The Stampede could legitimately do the same, cel-
ebrating this summer, but again in four years making
up for the 1919 rodeo as a non-Stampede and the
missed war years.
The Stampede board could plan a fresh party in
2023 to celebrate an official 100th Stampede.
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Let ’er Buck

Evan Holman competes in the early years of the Cody Stampede. (Park Count Archives photos)

Stampede Rodeo has storied history

By LEW FREEDMAN Places – continues to conduct the Buffalo in the world. But by then he was really of
Reporter Bill Rodeo today, nicknaming it “America’s Cody, the town named for him on the out-
First Rodeo.” skirts of Yellowstone National Park.
The roots of modern rodeo run through This is where Buffalo Bill held one of Colorado staged a royal funeral and kept
the soil of North Platte, Neb., to the day in the first modern rodeos because some 200 the body, though many fumed Cody wanted
1882 when favorite son William F. Cody cowboys and 2,000 horses were handily to be buried in Cody.
asked what the town had planned to cel- camped nearby at the end of a roundup. Left without the man in the flesh, Cody’s
ebrate the nation’s independence on July 4. And this is one reason Cody, Wyoming’s citizenry built upon his spirit.
The story goes that after returning to town fathers believed throwing a rodeo fol- However, the Cody community, which
town, Cody was hanging out with some lowing the great showman’s death was an in 2019 prides itself on holding one of the
other men in an establishment called ideal way to honor him. biggest shindigs around over the Fourth
Foley’s Store and asked what entertainment Buffalo Bill Cody’s demise just shy of his of July, was invested in the holiday long
was scheduled. 71st birthday in 1917 led to the birth of the before rodeo became the centerpiece of the
Not much, he was informed, and Cody Cody Stampede Rodeo, just as his natural party.
replied, “Oh, we ought to be more patriotic ingenuity in taking command of the North It was the desire of Buffalo Bill and
than that.” Platte July 4 celebration led to the creation fellow visionaries that Cody become an op-
The community where Cody’s Scout’s of his Wild West. portunistic gateway community to Yellow-
Rest Ranch still stands – and is protected When Cody died in Denver that Janu- stone, which was established in 1872.
by the U.S. National Register of Historic ary, he was probably the most famous man So years before Buffalo Bill passed

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Larry Larom (from left), Chief Iron
Tail, Caroline Lockhart and Ernest
Goppert during the 1925 Cody Stam- Bill Pawley rides a white bucking horse during the Cody Stampede in 1921. The picture was widely
pede Parade. circulated and hung on a wall in the White House during President Warren Harding’s administration.

away, Cody was already putting on an an- in prize money and the rodeo would be- board until this year.
nual show linked to “Entrance Day,” when come a cornerstone of professional rodeo’s Using the Enterprise, Lockhart, who last
the East Entrance of the Park opened to Cowboy Christmas over the July 4 holiday. year was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of
visitors each spring. The 1919 show was such a big hit that Fame, broke the news to the community as
Events did not include professional Williams and others decided Cody should rodeo plans developed and was an enthusi-
rodeo as it is now known, but there was a do this all of the time and in 1920 the Buf- astic cheerleader.
western theme in what seemed more akin falo Bill Cody Stampede was officially born. In a June, 1920 story, Lockhart wrote of
to a county fair. the Cody Stampede having raised $1,000
There was an event called “Cody
Stampede” in 1906 which listed a program Stampede is formed from the public for purses, observing “Many
cheerful givers enable the committee to
schedule that included a girls egg race, a One of the most important figures in the offer purses of a size to attract the best
boys three-legged race, speed ice-cream early days of the Stampede was Caroline outside riders and ropers.”
soda drinking and a tug of war, but also a Lockhart. The first citizen to contribute was Doc
roping contest and a saddle horse race. Lockhart was an unconventional and Chamberlain, Cody’s first dentist, which
Part of the July 4, 1910, program brash woman for her time. When she caused Lockhart to gush in print, “We were
included re-enactment of a stagecoach moved to Cody early in the 20th century so pleased that we had a notion to go in
holdup, an Indian pony race, bucking she declared her aspiration to become the and let him pull one of our large, glistening,
horses and steer roping. It was easy to see most famous woman west of the Mis- front teeth out, just to show our apprecia-
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West influence. sissippi River. She worked at it, writing tion.”
The evolution of the show became a respected western fiction, taking over It was important, she suggested, good
revolution in 1919 when with Buffalo Bill’s ownership of the Cody Enterprise and soon money be available for the bucking horse
death fresh in memory Clarence Williams enough stamping her imprint on the Cody contest.
stepped to the front as rodeo organizer. Stampede Rodeo. “We opened our hearts for the bucking
Williams had been a rancher and a stage She manufactured an imitation newspa- contest since a Wild West show without
driver carrying tourists into Yellowstone. per for the Stampede called “The Slippery bucking would be about as satisfying as a
The 1919 events took place in late June Gulch Howler (Guaranteed Under The Pure pie without the filling,” Lockhart wrote.
on empty land where the Church of Jesus Fun Laws).” A poster advertising the Stampede
Christ of Latter-day Saints on Wyoming The Caroline Lockhart Inn on Cody’s July 2-4 called it “The Saltiest Show in
Avenue stands today and the Park County West Strip, now apartments, was once Northern Wyoming. In A Class By Itself.”
Enterprise of June 25 raved about the cow- her mansion. On April 20, 1920, Lockhart Outlaw horses, rough riders, wild steers,
boy competition. hosted a group of otherwise all-men at her funny clowns, painted American Indians
The theme, Williams’ declaration, was living room table. and pretty cowgirls were promised, with
“Powder River, Let ’er Buck.” Cowboys When discussions ended they had $3,000 in prizes.
flocked to town to participate. conceived the Stampede Board of Direc- The Stampede sponsored a ball in the
“Perhaps Cody never again will get as tors with the mission of producing a special fall with the Red Lodge Orchestra, secured
many riders of international reputation to rodeo, and choosing July 4 to do so. sponsorship prize money from the Denver
appear on a program,” the paper reported. The original Stampede board included Post and Lockhart boasted about it.
Little did all expect this baby-stepping Williams, Ernest Goppert, Sid Eldred, “Now that is what we call generous of
into rodeo would result in the best cowboys William Loewer, Larry Larom and Lock- our ‘Big Brother’ over in Colorado,” she
in the world trekking to Cody every year to hart. Lockhart was the first president. wrote.
compete for what is now about $400,000 She was the only woman to serve on the Cody apparently outhustled neighbor

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 Bill Linderman
won sev-
eral Stampede
titles during his
rodeo career.
(Linderman
family photo)

Billings. Bulldogging star Pinkey Gist met Buffalo Bill near the end of his life and Record crowds appeared, but record
warned potential rodeo organizers there, the two occasionally drank together. attendances kept setting new highs. Twice,
“they would have to hand it to little, old “There was nobody even remotely like the rodeo grounds moved, eventually land-
Cody when it came to pep.” him,” McCoy said. “To the vast majority of ing at its present destination on the West
Lockhart tweaked larger Billings, noting, Americans, including me, he was nothing Strip in 1976 as the population grew and
“Billings, it seemed, wanted a Stampede less than a hero.” new housing was built.
also, but after it had counted the money it Like the rest of the country, Cody and
had sewed up in the mattresses and hid
under the edge of the carpet, it decided it Rodeo continues to grow the Stampede had difficult moments during
the Depression, with citizen donations way
could not afford it.” McCoy had his own following and did down.
The 1920 debut generated great re- some filming in Wyoming in 1930, bring- Early parades were as much proces-
sponse. Could Cody do it again in 1921? ing him to the Stampede again. That was sions, with contestants on horseback, more
It could. “We’ll Put ‘Er On Wild,” was the foreshadowing of later years when western than traditional floats.
Stampede committee’ slogan and action movie stars came to town as grand marshal The 1937 Stampede results demonstrat-
lived up to the pledge, with 4,000 people of Stampede parades, most notably the ed how the rodeo had become a destina-
crowding the town on the last day. ultimate cinematic cowboy John Wayne. tion for cowboys from all over. The winners
Cowboy Bill Pawley beat nine others By 1930, and through 1946, the rodeo list included men from Idaho, Arizona and
in the wild horse race. His opponent in was conducted where today’s Park County South Dakota.
the mule race, Bill Stultz, was thrown and Library and other community buildings are For years, the post-rodeo gathering
“Mr. Mule went on his way rejoicing,” the located. Lockhart was no longer involved place was the Wolfville, a dance hall, as the
Enterprise reported. and no longer even owned the newspaper. populace partied on. Tokens produced in
Pawley soon gained renown. He was But the rodeo was a staple of the town’s 1938 highlighting Wolfville read, “It’s Your
photographed on a white bucking horse, summer calendar. Nite To Howl.”
probably named Butterfly, and the dramatic That year, when prize money reached That year saw the introduction of Cody
picture gained wide circulation. It hung on $5,000 and one guest was western author Nite Rodeo, which has helped fund the
a wall in the White House, during President Will James, the Enterprise bragged in an Stampede and celebrated its 80th anniver-
Warren Harding’s administration. editorial about the growth of the Stampede, sary last year.
Some early Stampede advertising was which “is looked forward to by people all Cody Nite Rodeo really turned Cody
infused with gusto. One “Let ’er Buck,” ad over the Big Horn Basin and the state of into the “Rodeo Capital of the World,” the
challenged cowboys to show their skills. Wyoming. We are universally given a rating town’s proud slogan since 1967, because
“Say, feller! Come over to Cody and help next to the Cheyenne Frontier Days, and it offers rodeo every night of the week in
us rip up the sod. If you have a bronc each year more and more people are com- summer.
you think you can run, come and take our ing Cody-ward at Stampede time to get the There was tremendous rodeo upheaval
money. What’s the use of going off on a thrills of the western sports and western in 1936 when a cowboy walk-out protest-
basket picnic the Fourth of July, sitting on atmosphere of Cody town. ing pay at a Boston Garden rodeo led to the
an ant hill, eating ham sandwiches? That’s “The Cody Stampede is a growing insti- founding of the Cowboys’ Turtle Association
no fun. If you can’t be wild, be woolly.” tution, fostered during these years by the as a governing body. The turtle name was
The involvement of Crow Indians was businessmen of Cody.” adopted to show the cowboys were not
heralded in 1921 and famed western actor That year eastern companies Fox Film afraid to stick their necks out.
Tim McCoy helped plan the event that year. Corporation and Pathe News Reel commit- In 1945, the name was changed to Ro-
McCoy, who made more than 90 films, ted to filming the Stampede. deo Cowboys Association and in 1975, the

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 Above, In this aerial view of Cody,
Sheridan Avenue runs across the bot-
tom and 16th Street is the road on the
left. The Buffalo Bill Village Cabins are
in the center and Eastside School is
farther to the north. The rodeo grounds
can be seen at the top of the picture.

Left, An aerial photo of the rodeo

grounds when they were located on
Stampede Avenue.

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A team has problems keeping control in the Wild Horse Race during the Cody Stampede Rodeo in 2005.
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or earlier competitors, entered steer wrestling from the 1970s and 1980s.
PRCA. The Stampede Rodeo has long been in 1980. When Jay owned the downtown Record crowds appeared, and record at-
sanctioned by the PRCA. Cody restaurant Adriano’s, upon entering tendances kept setting new highs. In 1976
In the 1940s, the Stampede was again patrons were greeted by a Linderman fam- the new rodeo grounds provided more seat-
at the mercy of national and world events, ily rodeo display. ing and more open space around the arena.
shutting down completely in 1943-45 due Bill Linderman died in a plane crash at That was the year John Wayne came to
to World War II. age 45 and subsequently a Bill Linderman town, something still talked about. There
Trophy is awarded to the cowboy who won have been many other notables serving as
Racing to the rodeo the most money in the Gateway Rodeos, in
Cody, Livingston and Red Lodge, over the
grand marshal of the parade, though. Ac-
tors such as Steven Seagal, James Drury of
By the time the Stampede resumed, July 4 holiday stretch. “The Virginian,” and Wilford Brimley filled
one of the biggest stars in rodeo was Bill It was quite a challenge for competi- the role, as did pilot Chuck Yaeger and
Linderman. tors to even get to their draws in time at all generals Jimmy Doolittle and Curtis LeMay.
Linderman was born in Bridger and three, Jay Linderman said. So did rodeo stars like Larry Mahan, Curtis
raised in Red Lodge. He won the first of six “Sometimes there were police escorts Kelly, “Cody” Bill Smith and just last year
world titles in 1943 in bareback riding and and airplanes flying all over,” he said. Dusty Tuckness, the still-active world
added others in steer wrestling and saddle “Cody” Bill Smith, a three-time world champion bullfighter.
bronc riding, and as All-Around cowboy. champion now living in Thermopolis, Larry Given the hectic, split-second planning
Throughout the 1950s, Linderman, and Mahan, Joe Alexander, Bucky Bradford, nature of cowboy travel over July 4, the
family members Walt and Bud, were major Bill Parker, Larry Peabody, Dan Tryan, K.C. comings and goings, here-one-minute, gone
presences, and frequently champions at the Jones, Mel Stonehouse, Nick Knight, Deb to Livingston, Colorado or Oregon the next
Stampede. Greenough and Cody Custer were some can result in difficulties.
Jay Linderman, great-nephew to the well-known and popular Stampede winners Jim Facinelli, a 49-year member of the

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Stampede Board of Directors, recalled the
time in the late 1970s a steer wrestler
named Alfalfa Feddersen seemed to be
missing in action when the public address
announcer summoned him for his turn.
“The announcer called his name,”
Facinelli said. “No Alfalfa. All of a sudden, a
little Piper Cub flies over Stampede Park.”
The plane landed in the parking lot,
Feddersen dashed to the chute, jumped on
his horse and then jumped off it to grab the
steer and immediately exited the premises.
“He ran back to his plane and took off,”
Facinelli said.
In 2016, as the bull riding, the last event
of the July 3 performance, loomed in front
of 5,500 fans, the get-ready area behind
the chutes was devoid of contestants. The
bulls were loaded in their pens, but there
wasn’t a single cowboy entry present.
The entire field was delayed at the Red
Lodge rodeo about 65 miles away, and a
herd of cowboys sped along the highway
towards Cody, bending many traffic laws.
Shane Proctor, the former Northwest
College rider, said he went from Greeley,
Colo., to Red Lodge by plane, and was so
late he jumped the fence to reach his bull.
Then friends positioned a getaway van by
the exit gate to reach Cody. He didn’t have
to turn out at any of the rodeos.
“Ninety percent of the time it works
out,” Proctor said.

Must-stop destination
The Stampede grew in stature, growing
into the one rodeo the best cowboys felt
they had to visit on their Cowboy Christmas
tours. It was a gradual process linked to
money. The bigger the payouts, the stron-
ger the lure. Nine-time Bullfighter of the Year Dusty Tuckness of Meeteetse distracts a bull during the
In 1986, the total Stampede purse was
about $53,000. In 1994, it was nearly Cody Stampede in 2017.
$100,000. In 1997, it was $243,000 and
by 2003 it was $336,000. This July it recalling one horse sending three cowboys Beutler Brothers & Cervi Rodeo Produc-
should be about $400,000. to the hospital in three days. ers, Sankey Rodeo Company and most
“Cody wasn’t that big in prize money. Rodeo is both sport and show. Clowns recently Frontier Rodeo have organized the
They made huge strides,” said former are always a major part of the entertain- Stampede over the last few decades.
world champion cowboy Dan Mortensen ment. Some became an institution in Cody, In the arena, providing information and
of Billings, who caught the wave of purse performing year after year. Butch Lem- a touch of show business, public address
increases. kuhler, a North Platte, Neb., school teacher announcers such as Bob McManis, Randy
“When a rodeo adds that much, it be- when not wearing makeup and a four-time Schmutz and Lyle Ellis helped keep the
comes a must-stop.” PRCA Clown of the Year, spent so much pace of the action crisp. Recently, Boyd
Over time the Stampede moved away time in Cody he could have been a legal Polhamus, broadcasting into his micro-
from wild west competitions and morphed voter. phone on horseback, has been the connec-
into all rodeo featuring PRCA events. As prize money increased, its stature tion between the fans and the results.
One popular event lost was the Wild elevated to where the Stampede was twice McManis, who announced his first rodeo
Horse Race. A trio of cowboys did their selected as Best Large Outdoor Rodeo in 1936 and retired in 1982, gushed over
best to tame the rambunctiousness of a of the year by the PRCA. This year the the Stampede in 1988.
horse and ride it. In 1989, Gary Fales, Lee Stampede was selected for inclusion in the “Without qualification, Cody has prob-
Livingston and Jeff Tift had to improvise on Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colo- ably had the most receptive, enthusiastic
the fly when the horse smacked Livingston rado Springs. and knowledgeable support among its
in the forehead. Over time, promoters became entertain- townspeople and they devote more time to
“They were too wild,” Fales said of ment producers, figuring out how to cram it than is given to 90 percent of the rodeos
the demise of the wild horse competition, entire sessions into two-hour blocks. announced today,” McManis said.

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Announcer Boyd Polhamus cracks a smile during the Cody Stampede at Stampede Park on July 4, 2018.
For a time, each year’s Stampede 2004,” Tuckness said. “It’s something I
program featured the western artwork of grew up around. It’s been a place that’s
prominent local artists James Bama and helped my career.
Steve Devenyns. “I’ve spent half my life in Cody Nite
Since Mortensen’s heyday, world Rodeo and at the Stampede. It’s a pretty
champions have been pouring into Cody big part of it. I’m not missing it any
for the Stampede each summer. year.”
Texan Trevor Brazile, the richest and Eras differ, progress shapes commu-
winningest rodeo cowboy of all time with nities, but it is possible the Buffalo Bill
24 National Finals Rodeo crowns, heads Cody Stampede was equally as promi-
the list and has been a regular. He won nent when it began as it is now 100
the one-rodeo record all-around payout years later.
of $11,369 in 2015 and shares the tie- It is as patriotic a sporting event as
down roping time record. can be seen in town, with flags waving
Cowboys and cowgirls from nearby vigorously.
communities like Mortensen, who started “It celebrates our heritage that Buffalo
his rodeo competition at Cody Nite Bill founded our town with,” said Mike
Rodeo when he was in high school; Terri Darby, the current copresident of the
Kaye Kirkland, also from the Billings Stampede Board.
area, who has competed in Cody Nite “It’s great to celebrate along with the
Rodeo and the Stampede for decades celebration of the birthday of our country
and JR Vezain of Cowley, who won at the same time. It touches your heart-
bareback in 2012, are more emotionally strings. The whole presentation makes
invested in the Stampede. you proud to be an American.”
Tuckness of Meeeetse, the reigning Buffalo Bill Cody, the buffalo hunter,
nine-time PRCA Bullfighter of the Year, scout and showman who did so much to Kanin Asay of Powell displays the buckle he
spends a week a year in Cody for Xtreme perpetuate the nation’s image of the Old
Bulls and the Stampede. West, would offer up a high five to each
won during the Xtreme Bulls in 2007. He also
“I’ve been fighting bulls there since member of the Stampede committee. won the Cody Stampede that year.

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Longtime board members reflect

By LEW FREEDMAN asked who the guy was. time he was 7, so he figures he has been
Reporter That’s the kind of stuff that happens in attendance for 70 of them.
when you have been part of the Stampede “Pretty close,” he said.
Just last July, Jim Facinelli was pressed for 49 years, which is how long Facinelli He remembers how as a kid, he and
into action to make an emergency airport has served on the board. Cowboys and others in town anticipated the big rodeo
trip to pick up a delinquent Cody Stampede results blend with the years, but oddities and parade well ahead of time.
Rodeo roping contestant. stick to the memory. “You couldn’t wait until the Fourth of
As many pro rodeo cowboys do over Facinelli, 79, is the elder statesman of July,” Allerheiligen said. “What else in Cody
Cowboy Christmas, this young man was the board. The announcer’s box at Stam- draws 10,000 people for any given day?”
racing from rodeo to rodeo Fourth of July pede Park is named after him and his late These days Allerheiligen has a family
week trying to pad his bank account. But wife Colleen, a longtime timer. box. It is located not far from the Stam-
he was late leaving Red Lodge and trying As the 100th anniversary celebration pede grounds VIP building that has borne
to reach Stampede Park before his turn of Cody’s showcase July 4 week event his name since the 1980s and is used as a
was called. approaches, Facinelli reflected he has been gathering place for officials, cowboys and
“He got in the car and said, ‘I’ll pay the part of about half of them and has seen eating during the Stampede.
speeding ticket,’” said Facinelli, his chauf- more than 50, starting in 1965. Allerheiligen said he had no idea such a
feur of the moment. “When I came on,” Facinelli said of his plan was in the works when he showed up
The cowboy bailed out of the car before board tenure, “I was a green kid. Heck, for “a ceremony” one day.
it stopped rolling, ran into the arena just as you’ve got to be on this board three or four “Total, total surprise,” he said. “What
his calf was being placed into the chute, years before you know what’s going on.” an honor.”
competed in the roping and dashed off to Marv Allerheiligen, 77, spent 45 years The rodeo has grown in stature and
another rodeo. on the board. He grew up here and at- prize money. A turning point was the move
“I have no idea,” Facinelli said when tended the Stampede annually from the to the West Strip in 1976 at new, larger

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 Marv Allerheiligen
is pictured in front
of the building
named after him
at Stampede Park.

rodeo grounds, Allerheiligen said. summer, especially since it came in time at the Stampede.
“That was reaching for the stars in for the 100-year celebration. Larry Mahan, an eight-time world cham-
those days,” he said. “What a wonderful gesture,” he called pion as a bull rider and all-around cowboy,
As a board member, Allerheiligen said, the recognition. won titles at the Stampede in the 1970s.
he rarely got the chance to savor the per- He was around the board long enough One year a huge thunderstorm blew in,
formances of the big-name rodeo stars. to see funky things occur. and just as Mahan burst out of the chute
“I never even got a chance to sit down,” Allerheiligen remembers when a truck aboard a bull, there was a flash and all the
he said. driver delivered bulls to the rodeo grounds lights at the arena went out.
Sometimes he caught glimpses of Bill in the middle of the night. A gate was left “He rode in the dark,” Facinelli said.
Linderman, “Cody” Bill Smith and Ed open and calls poured into the police and “You could see him out there with the
Pilcher competing. He did make time to then board members. lightning flashing. He rode the bull. It was
watch Smith bronc riding. “We had bulls all over the West Strip on pitch black. All you could see were silhou-
“I knew him in high school,” Allerheigen people’s lawns,” he said. ettes.”
said of the three-time world champion who Facinelli recalled the same incident. Facinelli said he hopes to serve one
now lives in Thermopolis. “At 2 o’clock in the morning we were more year on the board to make it a round
Allerheiligen was pleased with the Pro out there trying to round up bulls,” he said. 50 and then “call it enough.”
Rodeo Hall of Fame’s selection of the Great and famous rodeo champions “I’m just honored they’d have me,” he
Stampede Rodeo for induction later this have competed regularly over the years said. “It’s been a lot of fun.

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The crowd enjoys the Stampede Parade in 1986. That year it snowed on July 4 during the parade and rodeo.

Remember when it snowed?

By LEW FREEDMAN recounts how one July 4th the weather the parade and it was snowing! 1975.”
Reporter changed abruptly and the temperature A former resident remembered taking
dropped to about 28 degrees briefly as snow pictures of her grandmother’s yard.
“To appreciate the beauty of a snow- high winds blew in and began uprooting the Calvin-Sheree Little wrote, “I marched in
flake, it is necessary to stand out in the hospitality tent at Stampede Park. the parade in my Little League uniform in
cold.” – Aristotle. “Everyone was shocked,” he said. 1966 during a morning snowstorm and by
The wily Greek philosopher Aristotle The way Facinelli recalls the tempest, 4 o’clock it was 65 degrees.”
from the 300s BC never saw a rodeo and the tent was under siege and two semi- In 1976, proving nature didn’t merely
his enthusiastic description of the natural trucks were moved into position to help rain on parades, a June 13 storm bringing
phenomenon of snowfall may not have block the wind. wet snow knocked out telephone and elec-
resonated with Cody residents shivering at Then snow started falling. It did not re- trical service in Cody and Meeteetse.
Cody Stampede Park or downtown at the main long and the next day the temperature One meteorological report said a foot of
annual parade on various July 3rds and July zoomed up to 100 degrees. There have snow fell on the South Fork. Ice falling from
4ths. been far more days in the 90s, at least for trees crushed bushes.
“Snow on the Fourth of July” is a phrase the Fourth, than below freezing. At that time, local weather wizard Mar-
sometimes uttered as an example of some- Also in 1986, an Enterprise photog- garet Hoskins pulled out records indicating
thing so unlikely to happen as to defy belief. rapher was minding his own business, there had been an inch of snow on June
Not in Cody, situated at 5,016 feet in shooting pictures of the parade when he 12, 1969, and 22 inches of snow on June
the mountains. It snowed on the Cody realized the precipitation had morphed into 22, 1938.
Stampede rodeo and parade on July 4, snowflakes. Roger Ebert, not as noted a philosopher
1986. It also snowed in 1975. Old-timer Buzzy Hassrick and Jim Landers were as Aristotle, but rather an esteemed Ameri-
Bob Richard said it snowed in the early on site to judge the parade and were caught can film critic, once said, “The very fact of
1950s over the holiday too. And current in the snow. snow is such an amazement.”
Stampede co-president Mike Darby insists In a thread posted on a Facebook site Amazement likely would be the word
it snowed on his property in Wapiti in called “You might be from Cody, Wyoming applied any time snow fell on the Stampede
1982. if you remember ...,” in 2014, a young Rodeo, especially if people dressed for the
Jim Facinelli, who has been a mem- woman named Holly Bentley wrote, “When day wearing shorts and a T-shirt because it
ber of the Stampede Board for 49 years, I was a senior in high school, I marched in was the Fourth of July.

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 John Wayne
was pre-
sented with
a special
Winchester
Bicenten-
nial rifle at
the Cody
Stampede
in 1976 by
Winchester
president
George
Chandler.

John Wayne comes to town

By LEW FREEDMAN for small-town Cody, there were times over Wayne in the passing parade.
Reporter the years when printed parade estimates did “I just remember the parade crowd was
reach that level. three times larger than usual,” he said. “I
Those among the thousands of adoring “We filled the town,” said longtime Stam- remember the big hat and the Cadillac he was
fans who lined Sheridan Avenue when Ameri- pede board member Jim Facinelli. “I think in, waving to the crowd left and right.”
can icon John Wayne rode in an open Cadillac they were sleeping in the parks.” Jim Nielson, 88, former president of Husky
waving in 1976 have never forgotten it. Karen Roles, a librarian at the Buffalo Bill Oil in Cody, hosted a party on his ranch prop-
Announced as the grand marshal of the Center of the West, was 7 years old during erty to spotlight Wayne.
Cody Stampede Parade, and in town to help that parade. Wayne’s appearance didn’t make He said one of his young sons greeted
usher in the grand opening of the then-Win- much of an impact on her because she had Wayne with the words, “We’ve got a lot of
chester Firearms Museum, Wayne was the no idea who he was. But she does recall the whiskey.”
ultimate guest for a western town that loved occasion. Also served was lots of beef, Wyoming
his western movies. “My parents brought us to the parade and beef. As Nielson put it, “Of course.”
Forevermore, the appearance is casually they were very excited,” Roles said. “He was Guests cooked their own steaks to their
referred to in Cody as “The day John Wayne just a guy in a cowboy hat to me. I probably own preference, though Wayne did not have
came to town.” have more a sense of it now than I did then. I to do his own grilling.
Wayne was neither ranch wrangler, nor hated the sound of guns going off.” This Wayne appearance coincided with the
rodeo cowboy, but was the nation’s image of Local attorney John Housel, 66, said Cody American Bicentennial celebration as well, and
what a tough, put-the-black-hat-guys in their was not a one-horse town, but was a one- Nielson said he flew on the Husky corporate
place good guy was supposed to be in the Old movie-theater town. jet with Wayne to Philadelphia. The men and
West, always on the side of righteousness. “That was a very exciting time for those family members were planning a quiet dinner,
From “Stagecoach” in 1939, through “True of us who grew up in a town with one movie but that was not to be.
Grit,” in 1969, for which Wayne won the theatre,” Housel said. “Most of the mov- “When we landed in Philadelphia, there
Oscar for best actor, he swashbuckled through ies were John Wayne movies at the Cody were all these limousines lined up,” Nielson
many other memorable performances, Theatre. said. “And they whisked him away.”
including “The Searchers,” “Red River,” “The “We all wanted to be just like John Wayne. Former U.S. Sen. Al Simpson, Cody, met
Alamo” and “El Dorado.” He was ‘The Man.’” and chatted with Wayne at the Nielson party.
“I’ll bet there were 17,000 people on main Wayne, Housel said, was the standard for Later, when Wayne fell ill with the cancer that
street, two or three deep,” said Del Nose, movie stars. led to his death at 72 in 1979, Simpson said
currently the Northwest College rodeo coach, “Wasn’t he, though?” Housel said. the two exchanged letters.
who was present for the excitement. “John Housel remembers the jostling for posi- Simpson still has the hand-written letter
Wayne was the real deal.” tion on the street by people who wanted from Wayne and said it is a prized posses-
If the 17,000 number seems exaggerated to make sure they got a good glimpse of sion.

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Stampede a must stop for many
By LEW FREEDMAN
Reporter

It was nearly 25 years ago, but Dan

Mortensen clearly remembers the details
of the ride that set the Cody Stampede
Rodeo saddle bronc record.
Appropriately, for a prize-winning horse
that made a habit out of throwing cow-
boys sky high, his mount that day in 1995
was named Skitzo.
“I had been on her before,” Mortensen
recalled recently. “She had been the buck-
ing horse of the year.”
Further proof the horse was aptly
named was a performance at a rodeo in
Great Falls, Mont., where it jumped out of
the arena.
“She got captured in the beer garden,”
Mortensen said.
The horse, said the Billings cowboy,
now 50, who also rodeoed for Northwest
College, “was just really good. She was
just really fast.”
Skitzo made for the fence at Stam-
pede Park, but Mortensen stayed on as it
bucked.
“I came off after the whistle,” he said
of his official eight-second ride that scored
an unequaled 92 points.
The brightest stars in professional
rodeo come to Cody every summer to
compete in the Stampede, July 1-4, and
have been doing so for decades.
Trevor Brazile of Texas, the winningest
cowboy of all, with 24 National Finals
Rodeo world championships on his re-
sume, has been a regular and shares the
tie-down roping record.
The saddle bronc riding Wrights from
Utah turn out in force, with Rusty Wright
winning in 2018, Jesse Wright in 2017,
and Jake Wright in 2016.
Joe Beaver, Fred Whitfield, Ty Murray,
Joe Alexander, Larry Mahan, “Cody” Bill
Smith, Bill and Walt Linderman, Cody Ohl
and Shane Proctor (who also competed for
Northwest) are among many world cham-
pions who won titles at the Stampede too.
Locals, such as JR Vezain of Cowley
(2012), and Kanin Asay of Powell (2007),
both of whom won Stampede crowns, got
their rodeo starts at Cody Nite Rodeo.
Terri Kaye Kirkland, another Billings-ar-
ea cowgirl, and a four-time National Finals
Rodeo qualifier, is 61 and has been barrel
racing in Cody for more than 40 years.
“It was close and good money,” Kirk-
land said of her continuing repeat visits. “I Heath Ford of Greeley, Colo., competes at Stampede Park in 2015.
have seen the competition get tougher and

24 • CODY STAMPEDE: Celebrating 100 Years Of Rodeo • Summer 2019

 Terri Kaye Kirkland of Billings runs barrels during the Stampede
slack in 2005.

Dan
Mortensen
of Billings
holds the
Stampede
arena
record
in saddle
bronc
riding. His
score of 92
was set in
JR Vezain of Cowley wins the bareback crown in 2012. 1995.

tougher. You used to use your horse at home on the ranch and That made up for the occasion when Ford was racing to get to
then rode on the weekend.” Cody in time for his competition from a rodeo in Alberta.
Kirkland will be back again this summer. “I got my first speeding ticket,” he said.
Heath Ford, a retired bareback rider, who most recently has For local rodeo performers, who grew up in the shadow of the
presided over instructional riding clinics to Cody Nite Rodeo com- Stampede, often attending as kids, competing in and winning an
petitors, was the 2004 cochampion in his event. event was something special.
Ford got his pro card in 1998 and competed in the Stampede Just about the best few days of Asay’s rodeo career took place
every year until 2017. The first time, he was impressed by the in the 2007 Stampede week when he started by capturing the
size of the payouts – now at $400,000. title during the first Xtreme Bulls and completed it by winning the
“What an amazing rodeo that pays that much money,” Ford bull riding in the Stampede.
thought at the time. “I’m going to win it one day. I did, seven “I was the high money winner over the Fourth of July that
years later.” year,” the retired Powell rodeo cowboy said. “That really helped
Six, actually. During 2004 Cowboy Christmas his traveling me. It catapulted my confidence and it helped me maintain my
partner broke some ribs and scratched out of the Stampede. position to qualify for the National Finals.
Ford arrived from a Greeley, Colo., rodeo by small plane. “It’s something you always dream of – winning your home-
“The pilot let me fly the plane all the way here,” he said. town rodeo,” Asay said. “I never thought it was necessarily
It was going to be a close call if he would make his ride. harder to win my hometown rodeo, but it’s something you strive
“The National Anthem was underway,” Ford said of the rodeo for.”
being poised to start. He now raises bulls, but he loves the Stampede.
Ford won $10,500, he said, and was so thrilled, “I laminated “It’s where I grew up rodeoing,” Asay said. “It’s a place where
it and I hung a copy of the check on my Christmas tree (in De- I hold my most memories. It’s part of my blood. It’s part of my
cember).” being. It’s part of my life.”

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 C o dy
S t a m p e d e

• Bareback: Ty Breuer, 91 points, 2013.

• Saddle Bronc: Dan Mortensen, 92 points, 1995.
• Barrel Racing: Tammy Fischer, 16.79 seconds, 2011.
• Steer Wrestling: Chad Hagan, 3.3 seconds, 1997.
• Tie-Down Roping: Trevor Brazile and Jake Hannum (tie), 7.2 seconds, 2009.
• Team Roping: Dustin Bird and Paul Eaves, 4.0 seconds, 2012.
• Bull Riding: Wesley Silcox, 94 points, 2011.

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St a m p e d e
Board
1946: Walt Hoffman
1947-1948: E.H.
Melbraaten
1949: Kenneth Davis
1951: T.O. Cowgill
1952: Jack Richard
1953: Orice McGee
1954: Bill Joy
1955: Henry Hecht
1956-1958: Lyle Ellis
1959: Clinton Schultz
1960-1962: Orrin Kaiser
1963-1964: Bunn
Sporer
1965-1966: Lyle Ellis
1967-1974: Bunn Sporer
1975-1977: Dorse Miller
1978-1979: Gary
Lundvall
1980-1984: Ed Webster
1985-1986: Ed Higbie
1987-1988: Jim Facinelli
1989-1991: Mike Schnell
1992: Jerry Nolan:
1993-1994: Loren Tope
1995-1996: Chip
Richard
1997-1998: Al Schultz
1999-2000: Dale Cowan
2001-2002: Tony
Scheiber
2003-2004: Ron
Meeker
Caroline Lockhart, who helped found the Stampede Rodeo, also served as board president 1920-25. 2005-2006: Larry
(Park County Archives photo) Johnson
2007-2008: Al
The Cody Board Presidents 1935: T.C. Molesworth
1936: Frank Blackburn
McCreery
2009-2010: Paul Fees
Stampede was 1920-1925: Caroline
1937: Meyer Rankin 2011-2012: Marc
founded by Ernest Lockhart
1938: Dr. B.F. Russell Thompson
Goppert Sr., Larry 1926: Will Richard
1939: Roy Holm 2013: Larry Johnson
Larom, Caroline 1928-1929: Fred 2014: Al Schultz
1940: Dr. Raymond
Lockhart, William Richard 2015-2017: Mike Darby
Howe
1931: Max Wilde
Loewer and 1933: Monty Jones
1942: L.A. Buchanan 2018: Keith Nelson
Clarence Williams. 1943-1945: (No rodeos 2019: Marc Thompson
1934: George Smith and Mike Darby
due to World War II)
 Miss
C o dy

Pictured
ever and her court in 1934.
Miss Cody Stampede Pat Gre r, (back)
Rule, Marjorie Early, Greeve
are (front, from lef t) Marie ) Nicki Seckman served as Mis
. (Park County Archives photo s Cody Stampede in 2015 and
Ruth Tag gart and Peg Shaw was also crowned Miss Rodeo
Wyoming 2016.
1934: Patricia Greever 1995: Amanda (Corley) Sanders
1950: Sally Haberthier 1996: Tye (Tupps) Green
1953: Beverly Lufkin 1997: Jennifer (Rhinehart) Lewis
1959/1960: Barb Bakken 1998: Julie (Blair) Linebaugh
1967: Patsy Patrick Harter 1999: Stacie (Davidson) Lincoln.
1968: Toni Ebert Trollinger 2000: Stephanie Jacobsen
1969: Gloria Maller 2001: Skye (Perry) Glick
1970: Karen Tegland 2002: Heather Asbell
1971; Barbara Quick 2003: Jessie Coy
1972; Debbie Flanagan 2004: Kimberly (Stambaugh) Zierlein
1973: Debbie Julien 2005: Britt (Whitt) Hayes
1974: Pennee Mitchell 2006: Nichole (Wantlock) Wimmler
1975: Diane Schwantes 2007: Emily (Pfister) Mohler
1976 Lana Boehme 2008: Brittany (Richards) Board
1977: Noreen Bunn 2009: Emily (Delyea) Velazquex
1978: Roberta (Schultz) Sankey 2010: Kiley (Boe) Nelson
1979: Priscilla (Bales) Bell 2011: Bailie (Allshouse) Barham
1980: Sharon Zastrow 2012: Bridget Seidel
1981: Julie Siggins 2013: Trina (Barnett) Wagers
1990: Judy (Damron) O’Hair 2014: Morgan Flitner
1991: Stacey (Parckard) Rockafellow 2015: Nicki Seckman
1992: Cherain (Schultz) Richmond 2016: Jessi Lou Gordon
1993: Andrea (Schmaltz) Weekley 2017: Katelynn Bullock
1994: Kitty (Schultz) Aragon 2019: McKenzie Scott
(While some years are unknown there also wasn’t a Miss Cody Stampede every year.)

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