‘Come Ride With Us!’
ND Cowboy Hall of Fame looks to the future
MEDORA – Minot will be the site of the 2023 North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame’s annual meeting. This will be the second time in the history of the organization the annual meeting has been held in Minot.
The annual meeting has been scheduled for Feb. 17-19, 2023, in the Clarion Hotel and Convention Center.
Rick Thompson, N.D. Cowboy Hall of Fame (NDCHF) executive director, said 350-400 people are expected to attend the Minot annual meeting.
Anyone who would like to help plan the event is welcome to attend NDCHF’s District 5 meetings held in Minot. For more information about scheduled meetings contact the NDCHF office in Medora at 623-2000 or Kathy Warberg, NDCHF District 5 secretary, at 701-720-3234 or email kwarberg80@gmail.com. NDCHF membership is not required to assist with annual meeting plans.
Each year’s annual meeting includes testimonies given about those nominated for induction in the Hall of Honorees that year. The induction ceremony is held in June in Medora.
The Hall of Fame observed its 25th anniversary in 2020. Now the organization is looking ahead to the future.
Special educational events are being planned at NDCHF’s Center of Western Heritage & Cultures in Medora to increase engagement with the public.
“We’re trying to be more interactive with everybody whether they’re from in town or tourists, especially in the summer but we’d like to do it year-round,” said Thompson.
A Meet the Artist event with artist Denise Semple of Sioux City, Iowa, on Oct. 20, 2021, at the Center kicked off the educational event series. Semple’s painting of Sacagawea, the interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, commissioned by NDCHF District 5 trustee Dale Myers of Minot, was featured at the event.
Jessie Veeder of Watford City will start the summer’s Educational Initiative Series in the center on Friday, July 8, from 1-3 p.m. She will read from her book “Prairie Princess,” teaching kids about the western lifestyle, play music, and sign books.
This year NDCHF has been selected as the grand marshal of the North Dakota State Parade to be held on Saturday, July 23, during the North Dakota State Fair in Minot.
In more recent years the organization has held a raffle to raise money for the organization. Sales of the tickets include at the North Dakota State Fair in Minot.
2022 Events
The following is a list of 2022 N.D. Cowboy Hall of Fame (NDCHF) events (times are for the time zones of the location):
Friday, April 29
Premiere Sponsor Dinner – 5 p.m.
Roughrider Hotel, Medora
Saturday, April 30
NDCHF 2022 Season Premiere – 5 p.m.
NDCHF Center, Medora
Thursday June 16
Induction Sponsor Dinner – 5 p.m.
Roughrider Hotel, Medora
Friday, June 17
Induction Dinner on the Patio – 5 p.m.
NDCHF Center, Medora
Saturday, June 18
Trustee Breakfast — 8 a.m.
NDCHF Center Patio
Saturday, June 18
NDCHF’s Hall of Honorees Induction Ceremony — 12-4 p.m.
Tjaden Terrace, Medora
Friday, July 8
Jessie Veeder “Prairie Princess” Kids Book Signing and Music — 1 p.m.
NDCHF Center
Wednesday, July 13-Saturday, July 16
Presidents Club Trip
Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Saturday, July 23
National Day of the Cowboy Celebration
Cowboy Music & Cowboy Poetry throughout the day
NDCHF Center, Medora
Friday, July 22-Saturday, July 30
North Dakota State Fair
N.D. State Fairgrounds, Minot
Friday, Aug. 5
Home on the Range Calcutta – 5 p.m
NDCHF Center Patio, Medora
Saturday Aug. 6
Home on the Range: Champions Saddle Bronc Match – 1 p.m.
Sentinel Butte
Wednesday, Aug. 10
Day of the Plains Horse People
NDCHF Center, Medora
North Dakota Cutting Horse Association State Finals – August (Tentative)
Ranch-O-Rama Arena, Medora
Thursday, Sept. 8
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Golf Scramble – 10:30 a.m.
Bully Pulpit Golf Course, Medora
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 23-24
ND Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo
Watford City
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 23-24
Y’s Mens PBR
Minot
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 7-8
Brad Gjermundson Extreme Bronc Match – 7p.m. nightly
4 Bears Casino, New Town
Friday, Oct. 14-Sunday, Oct. 16
NDCHF Gun Raffle — Drawing Saturday, Oct. 15
Badlands Circuit Finals, Minot
Friday, Oct. 28
NDCHF “East Greets West” Benefit Dinner & Auction – 5 p.m.
Avalon Events Center, Fargo
Saturday, Nov. 12
Fall Gather – 5 p.m.
Stanley
Friday, Dec. 2-Sunday, Dec. 4
Medora’s Old Fashioned Cowboy Christmas
NDCHF Center, Medora
Wednesday, Dec. 7
NDCHF’s Annual NFR Gathering
Park MGM, Las Vegas, Nev.