Casey Tibbs

Background

Tibbs was born to John F. Tibbs (1886-1948) and Florence M. Tibbs (1889-1974) in rural Orton northwest of Fort Pierre in Stanley County in central South Dakota.

Career

He was of English descent. He was featured on a 1951 cover of Life magazine. He moved in 1976 to Ramona, California, to raise and breed horses.

After battling bone cancer and then lung cancer for about a year, he died at his home in Ramona, while watching the 1990 Super Bowl.

He is interred at the Scotty Philip Cemetery in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Annual Casey Tibbs Ramona Roundup in Ramona, California 28-foot-tall bronze likeness, ProRodeo Hall of Fame, Colorado Springs, Colorado Ian Tyson wrote a song about Tibbs for the album I Outgrew the Wagon Mentioned in the film Smokey and the Bandit Mentioned in the film Business Stop.

Cole Elshere is set to portray Casey Tibbs in the upcoming documentary film "Floating Horses".

Achievements

• He held the "World All-Around Rodeo Champion" title twice, in 1951 and 1955. He won in 1949, 1951–1954, and 1959, the world saddle bronc riding championship and in 1951 world bareback bronc riding championship.