Casey Tibbs of Fort Pierre was a nine-time world champion rodeo rider born in 1929 fifty miles northwest of Fort Pierre, the youngest of ten children. He began riding horses as a toddler, later broke horses on his five-mile trip to country school, and by age fifteen was competing in rodeos nationwide. He won his first saddle bronc title at age nineteen, and between 1949 and 1955 won six saddle bronc titles, two all-around titles, and one bareback title. Charismatic and widely admired, he appeared on magazine covers, on television shows, and in Lee and Wrangler advertisements, and became known for wearing purple shirts and chaps and driving a purple Cadillac. Rodeo brought severe injuries, including forty-six broken bones, some broken twice, and a brief paralysis. After retiring from rodeo, he wrote, produced, starred in, and performed stunts in more than thirty Hollywood movies, and served as John Wayne's technical director to help make western films realistic. He was also one of the founders of the Rodeo Cowboys Association, now known as the P.R.C.A. Casey Tibbs died in 1990 at his home in California and is buried at Scotty Philip Cemetery three miles away. His dream of promoting rodeo and preserving its heritage in South Dakota became reality in 2009 with the creation of the Casey Tibbs S.D. Rodeo Center Museum, which features his memorabilia, items connected with trick rider Mattie Goff Newcombe and other rodeo greats, bronze statues, a virtual reality bronc, historical video, a kids dress-up area, a life-size horse wagon, a forty-two-foot hand-painted mural, videos of famous rides and interviews of nineteen world champions, a one-hundred-year-old saddle display, and an event center.