Kay Turnbaugh

The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls: A True Story (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Goldie Griffith didn't know how to ride a horse, much less perform tricks or tame a bronco, when she was hired by a famous Wild West show, but she didn't let that stop her. She traveled the country with several companies, part of a small group of professional cowgirls, and in 1913 Buffalo Bill himself gave her away at her wedding. She was married during one of the famous showman's Wild West shows at Madison Square Garden before a crowd of 8,000. A few years later, she discovered that not only was her cowboy husband wanted for murder in Texas, but he was already married when they wed. Furious, she pulled out her gun, aimed it at him, and pulled the trigger. As she waited in jail to learn her fate, she regaled reporters with her life story. She was one of our country's first professional female athletes, and she not only boxed and wrestled and rode bucking broncos, she also ranched, trained war dogs, owned boarding houses and restaurants, and was an actor and stunt rider for the brand-new Western movies that were taking the country by storm.

• A Willa Literary Award finalist for creative non-fiction.
• With over 120 photographs and images.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Perigo Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780970253231
• Artikelnr.: 66347856

Autorenporträt

Long-time Nederland, Colorado, resident Kay Turnbaugh owned the local newspaper for 27 years. During that time she wrote several articles about Goldie Cameron, never guessing that when she sold the paper she would devote four years of her life to researching the fascinating life of one of our country's first professional female athletes who worked as a cowgirl, bronco buster, and local entrepreneur. The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls: A True Story was a finalist for a Willa Literary Award in Creative Non-Fiction for 2010. The author also has written books about local history, a kids' book about the mountain pine beetle, and co-authored several hiking guidebooks. Find her at www.kayturnbaugh.com.

Other books by the author:

Following in Their Footsteps: Historical Hikes of the Northern Front Range (with Lee Tillotson)

Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl: The Summer of 1926 at the Horseshoe Inn (with Lee Tillotson)

Images of America: Around Nederland

The Mountain Pine BeetleTiny but Mighty

Afoot & Afield: Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins and Rocky Mountain National Park (with Alan Apt)

Ski Touring Routes: Colorado's Front Range (with Alan Apt)