Posted at 8:25 a.m., Monday, October 1, 2007
Island rancher honored by Mainland Hall of Fame
Advertiser Staff
John Palmer Parker, founder of the famed Parker Ranch, is being inducted into The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City in April.The ceremony will be held during the 2008 Western Heritage Awards gala.
Established in 1847, Parker Ranch is one of the largest and oldest working cattle ranches in the U.S., covering 150,000 acres on the Big Island.
Nominees to the Hall of Great Westerners must be individuals who made outstanding contributions to the advancement of Western heritage and traditions over a lifetime and who promoted America's Western heritage through leadership and community involvement and patronage of worthy causes.
In other cowboy news: The late champion roper Ikua Purdy will be inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum Hall of Fame on Oct. 5 in Cheyenne, Wyo., where he won a roping championship in 1908.
