ATDTDA(12) "Like she’s slidin’ down the walls of Jeshimon"** (More R-Girls)

[Keith]

A typical rodeo gals event in the West:
http://tinyurl.com/yslwvp

Though women had played an important role in rodeo's formative years  
in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, competing and winning against  
their male counterparts, by the time of the GRA's formation women's  
role in rodeo had been reduced to beauty pageants, with prizes  
(instead of prize money) such as cigarette cases. These women were  
exceptionally competent riders and ropers, whose skills had been  
honed working the open ranges of the American west, and they found it  
demeaning to pushed to be the extreme edges of rodeo.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Professional_Rodeo_Association

 From the late 1890s through the 1920s, cowgirls like Dorothy Morrell  
and Tad Lucas were popular stars of big-time rodeo competitions like  
the Calgary Stampede, the Pendleton Roundup and the World Series  
Rodeo in Madison Square Garden of New York City.

"Rodeo was the first, and perhaps the only, sport in which men and  
women truly competed as equals," writes Mary Lou LeCompte in her  
book, Cowgirls of the Rodeo (University of Illinois Press, 2000). She  
documents how women raised on the cattle frontier often grew up  
working side-by-side with their brothers shoeing horses and dehorning  
or castrating cattle, and they were respected for their riding and  
roping skills in rodeo contests.

Lucille Mulhall told reporters that the rodeo cowboys treated the  
cowgirls like one of the group, and liked to see them succeed. The  
cowboys "admire a girl who can handle a horse well," she said.
   http://www.webcom.com/outbooks/1929.html#Cowgirls%20of%20the

"Born in the saddle, Lucille was the spirited daughter of Colonel  
Zach Mulhall, an Oklahoma ranch owner. Unlike her sisters, she wasn't  
interested in dolls and sewing or piano lessons but preferred  
branding yearlings and roping wolves and jack-rabbits and steers;  
training her small, sure-footed ponies; practicing the trick riding  
that was to make her famous all over the country.

"While still in her early teens, Lucille was the top cowboy performer  
in the West. Extremely feminine, soft spoken, and well educated, she  
seemed a paradox, for she was so steel-muscled she could beat strong  
and talented men at their own games. She could have been a society  
belle, but she loved the rough, dangerous life and cowboying was in  
her blood. Had she been a man, she would have been content to work on  
a ranch, but as a woman she was a novelty and the only way she could  
make use of her singular talents was in show business. The term  
cowgirl was invented to describe her when she took the East by storm  
in her first appearance at Madison Square Garden (in 1905)."
   http://www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/mulhall.htm

It was a hundred and seven
We were heading to town
She had her sleeves rolled up
And the windows rolled down
That girl is a cowboy
Robert Earl was singing out
The "Buckin' Song"
With every word that Keen was bringing
She was singing along
That girl is a cowboy

Sometimes the best cowboys ain't cowboys at all
She's got my back
Even when it's against the wall
When I need a friend
She's the guy I call
'Cause sometimes the best cowboys
Ain't cowboys at all

so I took her tout to show her
how to rope and ride
I can't believe that it was me
That wound up broke and tied
The girls is a cowboy
So that night I decided
We should paint the town
I made it home although
I really don't remember how
That girl is a cowboy

Sometimes the best cowboys ain't cowboys at all
She's got my back
Even when it's against the wall
When I need a friend
She's the guy I call
'Cause sometimes the best cowboys
Ain't cowboys at all

There's just something that a cowgirl has
Ain't no cowboy's got
Man she's something when she's one of the boys
But something else
Any time she's not

Sometimes the best cowboys ain't cowboys at all
She's got my back
Even when it's against the wall
When I need a friend
She's the guy I call
'Cause sometimes the best cowboys
Ain't cowboys at all
   http://allpoetry.com/American%20Cowgirl

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