"Oh, You Cowgirl!" A Documentary Film
Mabel Strickland, A Cowgirl For All Seasons
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To Name A Few:
Fannie Sperry Steel
Bertha Kaepernik-Blancett
Goldie Griffith
Mabel Strickland
Bonnie McCarroll
Goldie St. Claire
Joella Irwin
Ruth Roach
Tad Lucas
Lucille Richards
Lorena Trickey
Fox Hastings
Ollie Osborn
Francis Irwin
Bonnie Gray
Lulu Parr
Lucille Mulhall
Prairie Rose
Rose Henderson
Prairie Lilly Allen
Bea Kirnan
Mabel Baker
Babe Lee
Vi Kelly
Ella Lazinka
Florence Adams
Buckskin Bessie
Florence La Due
Jane Bernoudy
Pauline Irwin
Margaret Irwin
Rose Clayton
May Lillie
Kitty Wilkes
Tillie Baldwin
Florence Hughes
Princess Red Bird
Vera McGinnis
Mabel Strickland, A Cowgirl For All Seasons
Photo courtesy Linne Mackinzie
Mabel Strickland may have frowned upon the idea of her own daughter growing up to follow the rodeo circuit, but that didn't prevent her from being one of the best rodeo and wild west show cowgirls of all times.
She appeared on the cover of the 1926 Cheyenne Frontier Days program in a photo featuring her as a bronc rider, smiling and waving to the crowd while atop the wild one, Stranger.
In later years she would, along with Bonnie Gray and Bertha Blancett, found the Association of Film Equestriennes. In Rhythm Of The Range, starring Bing Crosby, Mabel did all the trick riding for Crosby who proved to be a better singer than cowboy.
The story below recounts a time when many feared she may die from injuries sustained at the famed Madison Square Garden.
Years later, Mabel established herself as a sought after movie actress and stunt woman in Hollywood. In 1936 she signed for a supporting role in the film, "Rhythm On The Range" with Bing Crosby. A set was duplicated to look like the arena at Madison Square Garden where she had been so badly injured in 1926. As Mabel walked out to the set, she fainted in front of a gate that looked just like the one where she was trampled. She was rushed to the hospital where physicians reported a hemorrhage had reapeared at the site of the old internal wound! She recovered once again and finished the movie on schedule.
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