Category: Women’s History in the American West
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Breaking Trail: Fox Hastings
Eloise Fox Hastings was active during the first golden era of rodeo and competed in steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding and trick riding. She would be known for steer wrestling though! She appeared in the Irwin Brother’s Wild West Show in 1914. She performed trick riding and rode broncs in…
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Breaking Trail: Annie Oakley
Phoebe Ann Moses was born on August 13, 1860 in Ohio. Her family called her ‘Annie.’ Sadly, her father passed away from pneumonia when she was six years old. Her mother remarried and her stepfather passed away as well. Annie was sent to live with the Edington family who ran…
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Breaking Trail: Mabel Strickland
Mabel DeLong was born in 1897 and raised in Walla Walla, Washington. In high school, she began trick riding and relay racing which set off her twenty-five-year career. She married Hugh Strickland who was an all-around hand and they traveled together on the rodeo circuit for the next two decades.…
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Breaking Trail: Lorena Trickey
Lorena Trickey was born in 1893 near Palmer, Oregon. In 1917, she joined the Clarence Adams Wild West Show as a trick and Roman rider. One of the stockmen recommended she try rodeo and the rest is history. Lorena began competing in 1918 in Ladies Relay Racing and Saddle Bronc…
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