Everett Shaw

As a teenager, Everett Shaw began rodeoing around his home area between Nowata and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in the early 1920s. His career would span over forty years, winning the CFD™ Steer Roping Championship in 1951, 1953, 1957, and 1959. Shaw is best known as the leader of the group of determined men who started the Cowboys Turtle Association which would become the PRCA. He was first to proudly sign the original document that asked for increased purses and added entry fees for cowboys competing at the Boston Garden on October 20, 1936. Each year, the Turtles Association held a reunion at Cheyenne Frontier Days™. In the following decades, Shaw served on the board of directors of this cowboy union 20 times. He died in Oklahoma City on November 10, 1979.