Kirsten Vold

2022 Cowgirl Honoree – Colorado

Veryl Goodnight

Veryl Goodnight has dedicated her life to exploring the relationships of pioneer women to wildlife and the West through bronze sculptures and oil paintings. As a wildlife rehabilitator, Goodnight has...

Temple Grandin Ph.D.

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a champion of the agriculture and livestock industry. Grandin has published four books and well over 200 articles and essays on the subjects of animal welfare,...

Marie Keen Gress

For more than sixteen years during the 1930s and 1940s, Marie crisscrossed the country as a trick rider, steer wrestler, bronc rider and performer in rodeos, circuses and Wild West...

Clara Brown

Born a slave in Virginia around 1800, Clara Brown would become a pillar of the community that built the city of Denver, Colorado. The first time she was sold was...

Marlene Eddleman McRae

A world champion barrel racer, Marlene has been riding or showing horses since she was six. Inspired by Dale Evans, Marlene wanted to be a cowgirl and ride horses. Entering...

Laura Gilpin

Upon receiving her first camera at twelve, Laura photographed the Southwest for more than sixty years. Working alone, Laura’s works are unique because she pursued landscape photography, a field pioneered...

Agnes Wright Spring

Agnes’ childhood memories of her parents’ stage-line stop, combined with her degrees in English and history, led her to author more than twenty books, over 600 feature articles and fiction...

Anna Lee Aldred

The daughter of a racehorse trainer, Anna Lee Aldred began riding at three and racing ponies at six. By twelve, she rode flat and relay races.  At age eighteen, at the...

Gene Krieg Creed

In 1925, Gene became the youngest woman ever to win the bronc riding at Cheyenne. She and her sister Vaughn learned to ride before they were five and were soon...