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Fannie Sperry Steele

(1887-1983)

Year Inducted: 1978

Home State: MT

Fannie took a lifelong fascination of horses and turned it into a rodeo career that included being named World Champion bronc rider and headlining as a sharpshooter. Before she retired from rodeo, Fannie and her husband organized their own Wild West show and a stock company, touring the country. Finally leaving rodeos behind, Fannie went back to Montana to operate a guest ranch, guiding visitors into the Rocky Mountain wilderness until well into her seventies.

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