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Wild Women Of The West: Kitty Wilkins

April 10, 2024
Cheers rose into the air as Boise, Idaho, residents watched the entries in the Fort Boise Centennial parade travel along the main thoroughfare of the historic military post.  The honored guest leading the 1934 procession of floats, scout troops, marching bands, and period-dressed townspeople was seventy-seven-year-old Katherine Caroline “Kitty” Wilkins, more popularly known as the...
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COWGIRL Iconic: Bertha Kaepernik Blancett

By Chris Enss
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November 18, 2021
Fashionably dressed bronc rider Bertha Kaepernik, picked herself up from the dust and mud of the rodeo arena in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in August 1904, and wiped the dirt out of her eyes. She had just been thrown from a big gray horse, a bucker of the worst type. “Why of course I’m going to ride him again,”...
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COWGIRL Iconic: Mamie Francis

By Chris Enss
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May 28, 2021
Cowgirl Mamie Francis sat atop her horse, Babe, waiting for the director of California Frank Hafley’s Wild West Show to let her know when the program began.  Mamie and Babe were perched on a wooden platform thirty feet in the air over Coney Island, New York, looking down at the audience in the grandstands.  Directly...
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COWGIRL Iconic: Fox Hastings

By Chris Enss
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March 29, 2021
Cowboy Bill Pickett is credited with introducing the sport of bulldogging to rodeos in 1907. In bulldogging, the rider dashes after a madly fleeing steer, leans out from the saddle, and throws himself onto its horns, bringing the beast to the ground in a swirling scramble of dust and a half ton of flying beef.  Often...
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COWGIRL Iconic: Kitty Canutt

By Chris Enss
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October 9, 2020
Bronc busting champion Kitty Wilkes won her first title at the Wild West Celebration Rodeo in Miles City, Montana, in 1916.  The seventeen-year-old New York native’s straightforwardness and untamed physical daring gave fans the impression she was born and bred into the rugged life of a Wyoming ranch.  Few would have guessed she was new...
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The Legendary All-Around Cowgirl Mabel Strickland

By Chris Enss
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July 23, 2018
Mabel Strickland stood a little over five feet tall, was slim, and was known by her friends and family to be as gentle as a dove.  Few would have guessed by looking at her that she was a star in the rough, grueling sport of rodeo.  Her name was held in high esteem on every...

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