You are first to know: The 2025 Inductees to the Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame are Tex Taliaferro, Palmer Smith Cattle Company, and Mike Beers
TEX TALIAFERRO
The late Tex Taliaferro rode with the Ellensburg Rodeo Posse for more than two decades, won three Kittitas County Calf Roping Championships (1947-49), and served on the Ellensburg Rodeo Board from 1948-52 and 1956-70.
PALMER SMITH CATTLE COMPANY
The Palmer Smith Cattle Company has served the Ellensburg Rodeo as timed-event stock contractors from 1988 to the present. Under the leadership of Brent Palmer, they coordinate the use of timed-event stock and provide cattle for the tie down, steer, team, and breakaway roping events and the steer wrestling.
MIKE BEERS
Oregon cowboy Mike Beers was 1993 Ellensburg Rodeo All-Around champion, 1988 and 1992 Ellensburg steer roping champion, and won the 1984 PRCA World Team Roping title (with header Dee Pickett). During his career, Beers won an amazing thirty-one Columbia River Circuit Finals championship buckles in steer, calf, and team roping and all-arounds on the way to his 2017 induction into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame.
The 2025 ERHOF Inductees will be honored at an August 23, 5pm-9pm Induction Banquet at Spirit Therapeutic Riding Center, 1051 Sorenson Road. Tickets go on sale in June! Articles on each inductee will appear as August features in the Daily Record.
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