Margaret founded the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation and was the driving force behind the creation of the musical drama, Texas, performed each year against the backdrop of Palo Duro Canyon....
Mamie thrilled audiences with her daredevil act of riding her horse off a fifty-foot-high platform into a barrel of water just ten feet across. Between 1908 and 1917, she performed...
From 1942 until 1965, Mamie reigned as First Lady of the Pitchfork ranch, one of Texas’ oldest and largest ranches. Raised in Houston under the tutelage of her aunts, she...
Rose was a professional trick roper, trick rider and movie actress. Known as the “Queen of the Trick Ropers,” she learned to ride and rope from Pearl Elder and, after...
Young's love for ranching, horses, and roping made her a pioneer. She was a champion calf roper and barrel racer from a time when women in rodeo were very rare. Young began...
As the new wife of a missionary to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon, Narcissa was one of the first two white women to cross the Rocky Mountains. Her journals and...
From bringing in milk cows on horseback at age three to barrel racing at 76, Dora was a standout Texas horsewoman who consistently won on the horses she trained. A...
Mary began riding when she was big enough to sit in the saddle. She and her mother broke horses on their Colorado ranch, while her father ran a mercantile in...
Unlike many of her peers, Vera was not born on a ranch, but her athletic ability made her a natural when she discovered the rodeo. Beginning her career as an...
When she was a young child, Reba learned to ride a horse because she had difficulty walking. From that start, she became an accomplished trick roper, rider and World Champion...
