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Hall of Fame

The Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum honors men and women whose lives exemplify the independence and resilience of the people who settled Utah, and includes artists, champions, entertainers, musicians, ranchers, writers, and those persons, past and present, who have promoted the Western way of life.

Visit the Utah Cowboy Western Heritage Museum to see items donated from these amazing inductees.

Hall of Fame Inductees 2025

Sam DeLeeuw

Cowboy Poet, Cowboy Poets of Utah Founding Member and President

Brenda “Sam” Deleeuw is a trailblazer in the world of cowboy poetry, earning her place as one of the first award-winning female poets to capture the spirit of the American West. Her work, rooted in real-life ranching and cowboy experiences, has…   Read More

Diamond Fork Riding Club

To always strive to preserve, promote and enhance the traditions of the North American Cowboy

he Diamond Fork Riding Club consists of nearly 80 men who have dedicated their lives to see that the cowboy way of life lives on. It was established in 1942 when local horsemen got together to form the club. At the…   Read More

Kaycee Feild

6X Bareback Riding World Champion, 4X Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Average Winner, 13X Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Qualifier

Professional Rodeo Cowboy, Kaycee Feild, is best known for his exceptional skills in Bareback Riding. Born and raised in Spanish Fork, Utah, Feilds comes from a family with deep rodeo roots. Kaycee’s career was greatly influenced by his father, the late…   Read More

Quinn Kesler

Team Roper, 3X Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Qualifier, 2015 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Resistol Rookie of the Year

Quinn Kesler was born and raised in the small town of Holden, Utah. He always knew he wanted to be a cowboy. From the time he was young he loved ropes and horses. Raised on The Double Dollar family ranch, it…   Read More

Kelly Wahlen

Rodeo Cowboy, Race Jockey and Western Artist

Kelly Wahlen has been involved in rodeo and the western way of life from a young age. As early as his high school years he captured the rodeo spotlight when he won the Utah High School Rodeo Association (UHSRA) Championship titles…   Read More

Previous Years

2018

2017

  • Darrell Christensen
  • Lon Hansen
  • Flip Harmon
  • Vern Oyler
  • Chuck Story

2016

  • Marvin Dunbar
  • Don Kennington
  • Mary Shaw-Drake
  • Norman (Shorty) Thompson
  • Kenneth Woolstenhulme
  • Cody Wright

2015

  • Tanya McKinnon Bartlett
  • Gary Cooper
  • Bud Favero
  • Jack Hannum
  • Dean Steed
  • Francisco Zamora

2014

  • James W. Fain
  • Ron & Ginger Brown
  • Bar T Rodeo
  • Dale Pendleton
  • James (Jim) B. Smith
  • U. Grant Speed

2013

  • Archie Anderson
  • The Baldwins: George Henry, Angus and George Earl
  • Glen Thompson
  • Earl W. Bascom
  • Rose Flynt Bascom (Texas Rose)
  • Vicki Vest Woodward

2012

  • Cotton & Karin Rosser
  • Connie Della Lucia Robinson
  • Susan Merrill Agricola
  • Lewis and Calvin Grant
  • Kenneth (Ken) Cross
  • Judy Butler Anderson
  • Weber County Sheriff’s Posse
  • J. G. Read
  • Harman W. Peery
  • Lewis Feild
  • Lorene Donaldson Call