Ruby can be described in many terms: accomplished horsewoman, trick rider, roping champion, rodeo queen, movie actress, and ranch foreman. Raised on her family’s Arizona ranch, she learned to ride...
Eve wanted to be remembered for her work in oral history. Following a lifelong fascination with the West, she moved to New Mexico to learn the histories of the Anglo,...
While Dessie Sawyer was National Democratic Committee Woman and New Mexico’s best-known political figure for years, she was first and foremost a rancher. She and her husband U.D. moved onto...
Sabra’s artistic talent captures the history of the West and ranching on canvas, using knowledge acquired from growing up on a southwestern New Mexico ranch. Her early critics were the...
Born in Canada in 1891, Bernice won the Canadian Rodeo Champion High Jump contest in 1911, setting a new record, on a borrowed cowpony. She was a natural horsewoman, winning...
An all-around champion cowgirl, Fern was raised on a ranch where her father insisted she perform as well as the men if she was to help with the ranch work....
