2025

Elaine Agather

Mrs. Ninnie L. Baird

Dan Blocker

Lane Frost

Walt Garrison

Deb Haaland

Capt, John T. Lytle

Bobby Norris

Sancho

Samuel H. Walker

2024

Jerry Baird

Patrick Gottsch

Arvol & Paula Looking Horse

Paul W. McCallum

Reba McEntire

Kit & Charlie Moncrief

Chuck Norris

Dale Robertson

Prof. Richard F. Selcer

Leta G. Smothermon

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2023

Asleep at the Wheel

Mary Overton Burke

John V Farwell

Mary Ann "Molly" Goodnight

J.D. "Bob" and Almeady Chisum Jones

Burl Washington

Bob Watt, Jr. 

Chuckwagon

Taylor Sheridan

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2022

Robert Duvall

Sam Elliott

Geronimo

Rebecca Tyler Lockhart

Texas Rangers

Jimmy Riscky

Mollie Taylor Stevenson Jr. and Sr.

Buster Welch

William “Bill” Wittliff

2021

David William Beautiful Bald Eagle

John “Pete” Bonds

Fort Worth Herd

Lawson Daniel Gratz (Gratts)

Keith Maddox

Michael Martin Murphey

Fess Parker

George Strait

Western Horseman Magazine

George Westby

2019

James Arness

Marty Robbins

John Smith

Black Kettle

Chuck DeHaan

Mathew Caldwell

True West Magazine

Clay O’Brien Cooper

James Drury

2018

Robert Fuller

Barry Corbin

Douglas Harman

Granville T. Woods

Jeanette Sterns Keim (Jean Marlowe)

Plenty Coups

S. Omar Barker

Benjamin Tyler Henry

H.B. “Hub” Baker

2017

Billy Bob Barnett

Margaret Borland

Wilson Franklin

Johnny Fry

Bruce Greene

Donald Jury

W. O. Rominger

Eddie Sandoval

Clint Walker

2016

John Barclay Armstrong

Choctaw Code Talkers

Great American Cattle Drive

Francis Augustus Hamer

Loyd Jinkens

Leander Harvey McNelly

North Fort Worth Historical Society

Vicente Oropeza

Mary D & F. Howard Walsh Sr

Cathy Williams

2015

Joseph Sterling Bridwell – Oil Man

Graham H. Childress – Rancher

Cabeza De Vaca – Explorer

Five Civilized Tribes – Indian Confederation

Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

Fountain Goodlet Oxsheer – Rancher

James Hampton – Actor

Stylle Reed – Artist

Bob Simpson – Preservationist

2014

“Stagecoach Mary” Fields

Pastor Christer Segerliv

William “Billy” Dixon

Mabel Strickland

Lawrence Steel

Joe Dulle

James Farmer

Horace Greeley

Comanche Code Talkers

Ben Tahmahkera

Ben King “Doc” Green

2013

Gen. William J. Worth

Tumbleweed Smith

Simon Farrar

Set-T’ainte (Satanta)

Rudy Warner Robbins

Leon Coffee

John Avery Lomax

Perry and Nancy Lee Bass

Jim Thorpe

Bass Reeves

2012

Robert “Butch Cassidy” Parker

Buckley Burton Paddock

Bobbie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Harry “Sundance Kid” Longabaugh

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Temple Grandin

Trevor Brazile

Philip Danforth Armour

Old Trail Drivers

2011

Leon Rausch

Pam Minick

Billy Minick

Joseph McCoy

Phil Lyne

Quail Dobbs

Henrietta Chamberlain King

Superior Livestock Auction

Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train

Texas Declaration of Independence

Anson Jones

2010

Casey Duane Tibbs

Dean Smith

Middleton Tate Johnson

Johnny Gimble

Neal Gay

Commission Companies

Choctaw Code Talkers

Lynn Anderson

2009

Oliver Winchester

The Vaquero

John Batterson Stetson

Nolan Ryan

Lily Langtry

Joseph Glidden

Henry O. Flipper

Jack Favor

John Chisum

2008

Buck Taylor

William Wallace Simpson

Randolph Scott

Larry McMurtry

Mirabeau Lamar

George Glenn

Clara Driscoll

American Buffalo

2007

Daniel Webster Wallace

Gustavus Franklin Swift

John Peter Smith

Samuel “Booger Red” Privett, Jr.

Garlene Tindall Parris

Chris LeDoux

Adina Emilia De Zavala

Mark Twain

General Edward Burleson

Catherine Bryant Arnold

2006

Hank Thompson

H. Allen Short

Tom Bailey Saunders, IV

Midnight

Charles McFarland

Don Edwards

E. M. Daggett

John Butterfield

2005

Peta Nocona

William “Bigfoot” Wallace

Mitzi Lucas Riley

Larry Mahan

Jim Lane

Cleo Hearn

Julian Field

George “Press” Farmer

2004

Jim Wright

Leon White

John Wayne

W. R. “Billy Bob” Watt

Old Blue

Audie Murphy

Enid Justin

John Graves

Jerry Diaz

Chief Joseph

2003

Jim Shoulders

Cynthia Ann Parker

Bob Moorhouse

Tom Mix

Miller Brothers 101 Ranch

Louis L’Amour

Britt Johnson

Ben Johnson

Susannah Dickinson

William S. Davis

2002

Jay Silverheels

Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross

Maurice W. “Tex” Ritter

Clayton Moore

John O. Meusebach

M. L. Leddy

Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok

Jim Courtright

Martha “Calamity Jane” Canary

Roy Bean

Major Ripley Arnold

2001

Yakima Canutt

William Barrett Travis

Edward Tarrant

Sons of the Pioneers

Luke Short

Bat Masterson

Jane Long

Herb Jeffries

John Ford

Wyatt Earp

Lorenzo DeZavala

Kit Carson

2000

Lewis and Clark

Ernest Tubb

Erastus “Deaf” Smith

Sacagawea

Nat Love

Elmer Kelton

Will James

John Coffee “Jack” Hays

Amanda Burks

James Bowie

James Beckwourth

1999

Sue McCafferty

Charlie McCafferty

John Ware

W. T. Waggoner

Red Steagall

Windy Ryon

Charles M. Russell

Theodore Roosevelt

Ruth Roach

Steve Murrin

Pawnee Bill Lillie

Robert Kleberg, Sr.

Holt Hickman

Charles French

David Crockett

Samuel Colt

Buffalo Bill Cody

Jesse Chisholm

Dolph Briscoe

1998

Bob Wills

Major Khleber M. Van Zandt

Colonel Christopher C. Slaughter

Juan Seguin

George W. Saunders

Frederic Remington

Annie Oakley

Richard King

Sam Houston

Zane Grey

Gene Autry

Stephen F. Austin

1997

J. Frank Dobie

Will Rogers

Roy Rogers

Sid Richardson

Bill Pickett

Quanah Parker

Jose Antonio Navarro

Watt Matthews

Tad Lucas

Oliver Loving

John Justin, Jr.

Bose Ikard

Charles Goodnight

Dale Evans

Amon G. Carter, Sr.

Burk Burnett