Russ Madison, a one-time member of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, came to Dakota Territory in 1886, and the history of South Dakota rodeo began. He won the Champion Relay Race in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1907 and then began building his bucking horse string, with many of the horses coming from the infamously wild White Horse Herd of the northern Badlands. He put on rodeos in South Dakota and furnished bucking stock for many celebrations throughout the Midwest. He was recognized for producing the first professional rodeos in South Dakota, including the famous Days of 76, the Belle Fourche Round Up, and Rapid City Range Days. The ranch hosted a rodeo for President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and also served as the set for the 1920s film Ranges of Freedom. Madison's friendship and respect for the Lakota and Mandan made the ranch home to many Pow Wows from the 1920s to the 1940s. He died on July 9, 1956.