Casey Tibbs Foundation/South Dakota Rodeo Center

09/02/2026

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Casey Tibbs Foundation
Preserving a Legacy. Supporting the Future.

09/02/2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 1, 2026

CONTACT:
Kalyn Bergeson, Executive Director
Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center
PO Box 37 | 210 Verendrye Drive
Fort Pierre, SD 57532
605-494-1094 | [email protected]
www.caseytibbs.com

37th Annual Casey Tibbs Foundation Tribute Dinner Honorees Announced

FORT PIERRE, S.D. — The Casey Tibbs Foundation is pleased to announce the honorees for the 37th Annual Casey Tibbs Foundation Tribute Dinner, to be held Saturday, November 7, 2026, at the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center in Fort Pierre.

Each year, the Casey Tibbs Foundation pays tribute to individuals, families, and animal athletes who have made meaningful contributions to the sport of rodeo and its legacy in South Dakota. Honorees are nominated in six categories based on established criteria and selected through a formal selection process.

The 2026 Casey Tibbs Foundation Tribute Dinner honorees are:

Past Rodeo Great: Gary Barton
Rodeo Cowgirl Great: Sawyer Gilbert
Rodeo Cowboy Great: Delbert “Shorty” Garrett
Rodeo Promoter: Loretta Cowan
Ranch Cowboy Family: The William “Bud,” Al, Robert “Bob,” and Steve Kary Family
Rodeo Animal Athlete: TR Dashing Badger “Dolly,” owned by Harry Thomas

The Tribute Dinner serves as an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of each honoree while helping preserve their stories for future generations. Honoree photographs and biographies will be added to the permanent Wall of Fame at the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center.

Advance tickets are required for the 37th Annual Tribute Dinner. Ticket sales will open Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. CST. Tickets may be purchased by phone or in person at the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center in Fort Pierre. A limited number of tickets will be available, and previous Tribute Dinners have sold out quickly.

The Casey Tibbs Foundation will also accept nominations through May 2027 for honorees to be considered for the 38th Annual Tribute Dinner.

For additional information about the 37th Annual Casey Tibbs Foundation Tribute Dinner, ticket sales, or the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center, contact Kalyn Bergeson at 605-494-1094 or 605-222-3499, or visit www.caseytibbs.com.

About the Casey Tibbs Foundation

The Casey Tibbs Foundation operates the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center in Fort Pierre and works to preserve, promote, and celebrate the history and heritage of rodeo in South Dakota.

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09/01/2026

2026 Casey Tibbs Foundation Tribute Dinner!

09/01/2026

📦 Question of the day: What is an under $20 Amazon purchase that you can’t live without?? 📦

Did you know that every time you interact with our posts, it creates a donation directly to the SD Rodeo Center?!

While we don’t have a dollar amount of what it will cost to fix this issue, we do have a tentative plan in place and know the price tag is going to be beyond our budget.

For now, if you could just interact with our posts, it truly helps more than you know!

To clarify- the Casey Tibbs SD Rodeo Center is not going anywhere. 🤠 The hill to the South is just going to look quite a bit different in the future!

09/01/2026

BEFORE HE WAS A RODEO COWBOY, JESSE BAIL WAS JUST A COWBOY: So, maybe we have it backwards. We call Jesse Bail one of the great all-around rodeo cowboys of his generation. But rodeo didn't make Jesse Bail an all-around cowboy. Ranch life did.
Jesse came out of the country around Camp Crook, South Dakota, where being a cowboy wasn't an event you entered. It was simply what you did.
You rode horses. You worked cattle. You learned to rope. You learned to handle whatever happened next. And apparently Jesse decided that included riding bulls.
He was getting on bulls by age 12 and broncs by 13. He later remembered that you had to take plenty of hard knocks before you figured it out. Boy, did he figure it out.
Jesse Bail eventually became one of the most versatile cowboys in professional rodeo. Saddle bronc rider. Bull rider. Steer wrestler. And in 2000 and 2001, that South Dakota ranch kid did something extraordinary: He qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in all three.
Think about that for a minute. Today we live in an age of specialization. Cowboys increasingly concentrate on one event and spend years perfecting it. Jesse Bail came from another school. The ranch.
Maybe that's why “all-around cowboy” fit him so well. Because on a ranch, you don't get to tell the boss: Sorry. That's not my event. If a horse needs riding, you ride it. If cattle need working, you work them. If something breaks, you fix it. And if there's a job that needs doing...you figure out how to do it.
Jesse carried that mentality all the way from the South Dakota prairie to Las Vegas—12 times—and earned more than $2 million along the way.
In fact, in 2002 he entered the NFR wearing the No. 1 back number, competing in both saddle broncs and bull riding, and came within $14,051 of Trevor Brazile for the World All-Around Championship.
Maybe that's the part of Jesse Bail's career we shouldn't overlook. He didn't become a cowboy because he rodeoed. He rodeoed because he was already a cowboy.

PHOTO: BOB KISKEN (Google Bob Kisken Photography)
SEE BOB KISKEN PHOTOS: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1453588736041596/
SOURCE: WILD RIDES

09/01/2026

09/01/2026

❄️ 🌼 Question of the day: What’s your favorite season? 🏖️ 🍂

Did you know that every time you interact with our posts, it creates a donation directly to the SD Rodeo Center?!

While we don’t have a dollar amount of what it will cost to fix this issue, we do have a tentative plan in place and know the price tag is going to be beyond our budget.

For now, if you could just interact with our posts, it truly helps more than you know!

To clarify- the Casey Tibbs SD Rodeo Center is not going anywhere. 🤠 The hill to the South is just going to look quite a bit different in the future!

If you feel so inclined, a donation tab and Chase The Ace Fundraiser have been set up at caseytibbs dot com 🥰 Apparently Facebook is limiting my links now 😏

08/31/2026

He lost the World Championship by $5.28. Five dollars and twenty eight cents. Then he spent the next thirty years making sure every young saddle bronc rider had someone to learn from.

Born and raised in South Dakota, Tom Miller grew up competing in a state where wide open spaces and ranch life produced the kind of toughness that professional rodeo demands from its athletes. He attended Black Hills State College in Spearfish South Dakota and led a rodeo team that dominated national collegiate competition in the early 1970s — becoming the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association All-Around Champion in both 1970 and 1971. Back to back college All-Around titles. The foundation was built and built well.

He turned professional and became one of the most consistent saddle bronc riders in the sport across nearly a decade of competition. Four consecutive Badlands Circuit Saddle Bronc Championships from 1977 to 1980 — winning his home circuit year after year with the kind of steady excellence that fellow competitors recognized and respected. Six National Finals Rodeo qualifications across his career.

Then came 1981. The NFR in Oklahoma City. Tom Miller entered the Finals trailing the season leader and competed his heart out across ten rounds. He placed in seven of them. He won the average by nineteen points over a field of the best saddle bronc riders in the world. He rode everything drawn for him with the precision and balance that two college All-Around championships and years of professional competition had built into his muscle memory.
When the numbers were final he had missed the World Championship by exactly five dollars and twenty eight cents. Five dollars. Twenty eight cents. In a season of traveling thousands of miles entering dozens of rodeos and competing against the very best in the sport — that was the margin. The price of a decent burger and a cup of coffee standing between Tom Miller and a gold buckle.

He never won that World Championship. He never stopped competing. He finished second in the world standings in 1975 as well — another near miss from the top of the sport.

When his competitive career wound down he became a PRCA judge — serving for more than twenty years in that capacity and earning selection by saddle bronc contestants themselves as an NFR judge five times. Not appointed. Selected. The cowboys who competed at the biggest rodeo in the world trusted Tom Miller to score their rides accurately and fairly. That trust means everything in a judged event.

He was inducted into the Casey Tibbs Foundation in 1994 — named after the nine time World Champion from South Dakota who had made the Badlands circuit proud for decades before Miller carried that torch forward himself. He was inducted into the Black Hills State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

For more than thirty years he has instructed at saddle bronc riding schools — pouring every lesson from two college All-Around titles six NFR qualifications and a career's worth of competition directly into the next generation of South Dakota cowboys who needed someone to show them the way.
He is now in the National Rodeo Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum — recognition long overdue for a Badlands cowboy who competed with excellence, judged with integrity and taught with generosity across five decades of giving everything he had to the sport of professional rodeo.

Five dollars and twenty eight cents away from a World Championship. A lifetime of giving back that no amount of prize money could ever measure.

That is Tom Miller. 🤠🏆

08/31/2026

🤠 THE WAIT IS ALMOST OVER! 🤠

The 2026 Casey Tibbs Tribute Dinner Honorees will be revealed TOMORROW, September 1! 🎉

We are SO excited to finally share this year’s incredible lineup with you… but first, we want to hear your guesses! 👀

Who do YOU think will be honored this year? Drop your guesses in the comments! ⬇️

🏆 Rodeo Cowgirl Great
🏆 Rodeo Cowboy Great
🏆 Past Rodeo Great
🏆 Rodeo Promoter
🏆 Ranch Family
🏆 Rodeo Animal Athlete

Stay tuned! The big reveal is TOMORROW! 🤠

08/30/2026

We filled up tonight DJ's Convenience Store on our way home! Be sure to stop by and show them your support- they’ll be running their fundraiser for us for just a couple more days!

🤠 THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT KEEPS ROLLING IN! ❤️

Another local business is stepping up for the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center, and we are incredibly thankful.

A huge THANK YOU to DJ’s/Cenex in Pierre for hosting a Rodeo Roundup Fundraiser through the end of the month!

⛽ Stop in at 507 W. Sioux Ave. in Pierre
💰 Round up your purchase at checkout
🤠 Your donation will go directly to the Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center to help with the challenges caused by the land movement surrounding the Casey Tibbs SD Rodeo Center.

A few cents may not seem like much on its own, but when an entire community comes together, those little acts of generosity add up in a BIG way.

So the next time you need to fuel up or stop in for something, consider visiting DJ’s/Cenex, round up that purchase, and while you’re there, thank them for supporting the Rodeo Center and our community.

We continue to be humbled by the businesses, organizations, and individuals finding their own ways to help. Please support the businesses that are supporting Casey Tibbs. ❤️

Thank you, DJ’s/Cenex, for helping us preserve the legacy and protect the future of the Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center. 🤠

ROUND UP. GIVE BACK. SUPPORT LOCAL. ❤️