Gretel Ehrlich is a nature writer, novelist, essayist, and poet raised on a horse ranch in California. After working in film for 10 years, she began writing full-time while living on a Wyoming ranch in 1978. Her first of multiple books, The Solace of Open Spaces, is a collection of essays describing her love of...
Caroline Lockhart was a journalist, bestselling Western author, rodeo founder, homesteader, and cattle queen. Her lifelong quest was to live the life of a cowgirl: independent, on horseback, in the beautiful, open country of the West. Raised by a Kansas cattle trader, Lockhart proved a talented horsewoman. Born in 1871 with an adventurous spirit, little...
Prairie Rose Henderson made a name for herself during the golden age of rodeo as a champion bronc rider. She became a fierce relay racer, dazzling the crowds not only with her daring feats in the arena but also with her fashion sense and flair for beautiful and inventive performance costumes. 2008 Cowgirl Honoree –...
Hailed as a civil rights leader, Esther made significant headway in the fight for women’s suffrage when her influential efforts made it possible for women to vote in the Wyoming Territory in 1869. Her triumph there set a course for equality that would not be fully realized in the rest of the United States until...
Although this cowgirl’s resume reads long and broad, Arlene was known for her work with Cheyenne Frontier Days, where she acted as chief goodwill ambassador. Her interest in rodeo started as a teenager, and she dallied in trick riding and barrel racing. Arlene rode in the 1958 Brussels World Fair before adding trick water skier...
Born in 1896 into one of Wyoming’s first ranching families, Elsa acquired her first Brownie camera when she was twelve. She began a career that spanned more than eighty years, documenting a vanishing way of life with photographs of the lives of the Crow Indians, ranchers and the everyday life around her. Elsa was an...
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 stories, a play, and countless shorter articles in professional journals about the West. The only person to be the official historian of two states, Colorado...
As chair of the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association Board, Peg engineered and guided the completion the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. She began a lifelong relationship with the Buffalo Bill Museum as a volunteer when her mother was secretary of the association and her father was editor of a weekly newspaper. After she...
Rhonda grew up on a Wyoming ranch learning almost every aspect of ranching and rodeo life starting from the time she could first sit on a horse. She began young, winning her first horsemanship award at two, and went on to be a champion barrel racer, a rodeo queen, rodeo organist, published western writer and...
