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Chuck Parkison
Serving as the Cheyenne Frontier Days™ rodeo announcer from 1962 to 1989 rodeo fans heard the familiar words “Where the pavement ends and the west begins – Cheyenne Frontier Days™” to begin each show. A regular announcer for the National Finals and many others Chuck Parkison knew rodeo starting out as a high school bull rider and bareback bronc rider. After appearing in films and television he settled down on the rodeo circuit announcing for almost every major rodeo in the United States. Chuck Parkison died early one evening in-between announcing the rodeo and the night show at Cheyenne Frontier Days™ in 1989.