Adams, Leon, 1930-2017
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1930-06-06 - 2017-10-30
Biography
ProRodeo Hall of Famer. Along with his wife Vicki, he worked for five decades on the rodeo circuit, gaining notoriety for his specialty acts, horsemanship, and skill in training animals. Received the PRCA Specialty Act of the Year Award in 1982. Inducted into the National Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City in 2004. He and Vicki were inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2008.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Rodeo personalities
File
Identifier: 2006.012.14
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...
Dates:
1864 - 1991