Midnight

Called “too tough to ride”, Midnight debuted at Cheyenne Frontier Days™ in 1929 and threw champion Earl Thode. At 1200 pounds and fifteen and a half hands, he was a huge bucking horse, yet gentle enough to be led by stock contractor/owner Verne Elliot in the Cheyenne Frontier Days™ parades. In 1930, the contestants wanted Midnight banned from the rodeo, but the CFD™ Committee replied it would bar “neither man nor horse.” Midnight’s last Cheyenne Frontier Days™ appearance came in 1933, with Turk Greenough aboard for an exhibition ride. Midnight died in 1936 and is buried on the grounds of the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.