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The following list of cowboys and cowgirls from the frontier era of the American Old West (circa 1830 to 1910) was compiled to show examples of the cowboy and cowgirl genre. Cattlemen, ranchers, and cowboys
Interior of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is located in Fort Worth, Texas, US.Established in 1975, it is dedicated to honoring women of the American West who have displayed extraordinary courage and pioneering fortitude.
The history of women in the West, and women who worked on cattle ranches in particular, is not as well documented as is that of men. Institutions such as the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in modern years have attempted to gather and document the contributions of women.
[13] [29] In Louisiana and Texas, African-American trail rides celebrate and preserve the history of Black cowboys. [30] Present-day Black women cowboys include Caitlin Gooch, who maintains a horse stable and works to teach Black children about Black horse culture while inspiring them to improve their reading skills. [31]
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: For more than a century the cowboy has been portrayed only as a white man. Annabel Grossman meets some of the Black horsewomen challenging that perception – and reclaiming ...
Ann Bassett (May 12, 1878 – May 8, 1956), also known as Queen Ann Bassett, was a prominent female rancher of the Old West, and with her sister Josie Bassett, was an associate of outlaws, particularly Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.
Her last book received a Western Wrangler award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center (now called the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). [18] Debo was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1950. [19] She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1984.
Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848.Most of her family members called her May. Her father, John Shirley, prospered raising wheat, corn, hogs and horses, though he was considered to be the "black sheep" of a well-to-do Virginia family which had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice. [2]