Mississippi rodeo. Mississippi academicians consider Bascom to be one of the greatest cowboys in their state's history. The Fence Post magazine wrote, "Variations of Bascom’s rigging of 1924 and his bucking chute of 1919 have since become world-wide rodeo standards, used at rodeos in North America, Central America, and South America, from Hawaii to Japan to New Zealand and Australia, as well as in Europe and South Africa." Awards and honors Tributes Hall of Fame inductions and other honors Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame (Ponoka, Alberta Canada), 1984 Marion County Cattlemen's Hall of Fame (Mississippi), 1985 Key to the city of Columbia (Mississippi), 1985 Utah Sports Hall of Fame (Salt Lake City, Utah), 1985 Raymond Sports Hall of Fame (Raymond, Alberta Canada), 1987 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London, England), 1993 Cowboy Memorial and Museum (Caliente, California), 2000 United States Sports Academy Walk of Fame (Georgia), 2002 Trailblazers Hall of Fame (Alberta, Canada), 2010 Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame (Alberta, Canada), 2012 Victor Valley College Alumni Hall of Fame (California), 2012 Victor Valley Museum (California), 2012 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada,) 2013 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Rodeo Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), 2013 Utah Rodeo Hall of Fame (Ogden, Utah), 2013 National Day of the Cowboy honoree, 2014 Cowboy Keeper Hall of Fame, 2014 Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (Calgary, Alberta Canada), 2015 Mississippi Rodeo Hall of Fame (Columbia, Mississippi), 2016 Idaho Rodeo Hall of Fame (Gooding, Idaho), 2016 Utah Cowboy Hall of Fame, Emeritus Honoree (Ogden, Utah), 2016 ProRodeo Hall of Fame, Pioneer Award (Colorado Springs, Colorado), 2016 Official State Historical Marker "Birthplace of Mississippi Rodeo" erected 2018 (Columbia, Mississippi) National Bareback Riding Hall of Fame, 2019 Canadian Order of Sport, 2020 Canadian Trick Riding Hall of Fame 2021 All Cowboy and Arena Champions Hall of Fame 2022 Rodeo innovations Bascom is known as an innovator and designer of rodeo equipment and rodeo gear. His inventions include: first side-delivery bucking chute (1916) at Welling, Alberta (assisted by brothers Raymond, Melvin and father John W. Bascom) first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute (1919) at Lethbridge, Alberta (assisted by his father John W. Bascom) first hornless rodeo bronc saddle (1922) at Lethbridge, Alberta first one-hand bareback rigging (1924) at Stirling, Alberta first high-cut rodeo chaps (1926) at Raymond, Alberta rodeo exerciser (1928) at Raymond, Alberta first rodeo held in the state of