CORRAL DUST 



"Corralling a bunch of yearling mavericks ?" grinned 

 buckaroo Roy Hunter, a cavalryman from Vancouver 

 Barracks, to Walter Bowman, the photographer, who 

 had rounded up a laughing group of pretty cowgirls. 



"Yes, but they are more than you can brand, Roy", 

 chirped back Hazel Walker of riding fame. With her 

 were those four marvelous riders of outlaws, Bertha 

 Blancett, Fannie Sperry Steele, Nettie Hawn, and Tilly 

 Baldwin, an unequalled quartette that had the unique 

 record among the women riders of "riding slick" — 

 that is without hobbled stirrups. There was also 

 "Prairie Rose" Henderson, auburn-haired Minnie 

 Thompson, Eloise Hastings and "Babe" Lee. 



The well-proportioned, golden-haired cowgirl is that 

 queen of ropers, Lucile Mulhall of Oklahoma — the 

 only woman to successfully get a steer down on time, 

 and the only woman who has bulldogged a steer at 

 the Round-Up. She is a marvel at all three major 

 sports. She and Bertha Blancett have no superiors 

 as all-round cowgirls. 



There, too, is Vera McGinnis, in the brown- fringed 

 skirt, one of the greatest of all-round contestants, and 

 pretty Ella Lazinka who is a good all-round cowgirl. 

 But the palm, as an all-round cowwoman, must be 

 given to Bertha Blancett, probably the most daring, 

 gamest and as sportsmanslike a woman as ever rode 

 at a Round-Up, and as efficient as many a cowboy on 

 the range. 



Out on the track, champion riders are exercising 

 their relay strings in turns, and are themselves getting 

 used to the one quarter mile track. There are Lorena 

 Trickey, Mable DeLong Strickland, Tilly Baldwin and 

 Ruth Parton, who owns and rides her own string. 

 They are training the horses to the track and the 



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