Six-time World Champion to entertain rodeo fans in Libby
The 2025 Kootenai River Stampede PRCA Rodeo is rapidly approaching and the details are coming together for the rodeo committee as they continue to work toward providing the Libby community and surrounding areas with the professionalism associated with a PRCA event.
This year’s rodeo is scheduled for Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26.
Cowboys and their Western lives are unique. Their traditions grew from the need to work in a way that was compatible with their environment as they settled the West. Cowboys honed the skills necessary to perform their job and survive. Proud and confident in these honed skills, the cowboy would often boast around the campfire in the evenings. So, as the saying goes, “Put up or shut up.”
The cowboys would go about “proving” they were the best. From these competitions grew the modern competition we enjoy as RODEO.
Kicking off the 2025 Kootenai River Stampede PRCA Rodeo in spectacular fashion will be six-time World Champion trick rider Madison McDonald Thomas bursting through the arena gate at full speed carrying Old Glory! She wowed the Libby crowds in 2020 and now she’s back!
Thomas is originally from Alberta, Canada, growing up with her mother, who not only rode horses but also worked for the Calgary Stampede and produced Wild West shows. Madison’s future career performing stunts on horseback is no surprise. She began trick riding lessons at just 6 years old, sealing her fate and the trajectory of her career.
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