Stock Contractor • Inducted 2008 Chandler Earl (Feek) Tooke started raising horses on the family’s Ekalaka, Mont., ranch in the late 1930s and the breeding program he created with his son, Ernest, produced more then 6,000 rodeo broncs, passed along to every top stock contractor in North America. Described as the...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2006 The late Doc Sorensen was a man of many hats – football player, veterinarian, politician, mayor, legislator, law enforcement officer, but mostly, he was a cowboy. He and the late Everett Colborn founded the Colborn & Sorensen Rodeo Co. in the early 1930s and produced rodeos throughout...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2005 Marvin Brookman earned a reputation with friends, family and roughstock contestants as an honest gentleman in every sense of the word. Brookman started his career by culling the buckers from his father’s 500 head of horses. He developed a string of 150 head, and has since...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2025 Harley Tucker knew a good bucking horse when he saw one. His son said he had a knack for finding them. Tucker always made sure his stock was well cared for and had the best of everything, even if that meant he was the one hauling...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2024 Legend has it that third generation stock contractor Sammy Andrews took his first steps in the arena at the Fort Worth Coliseum. To say rodeo is in his blood would be an understatement. Andrews grew up on his father’s ranch doctoring cattle and breaking colts between...
