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...
Nancy Binford, one of the country’s premier horsewomen, won many horse shows, races, and cutting horse championships, but she is be best remembered as co-producer, with Thena Mae Farr, of...
The daughter of a rodeo clown, Karen began trick riding at age ten and started a seventeen-year career. She was instrumental in forming “The Flying Cimarrons,” a group that brought...
Fannie took a lifelong fascination with horses and turned it into a rodeo career that included winning the title of World Champion bronc rider and headlining as a sharpshooter. Before...
For a decade, Tad was known as the world’s best female rodeo performer. The youngest of 24 children, Tad made her professional debut in 1917. She moved to Fort Worth...
