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OREGON’S OWN COWGIRL TO BE ROUND-UP QUEEN% • - «TIIIS IS MAiiEL STRICKLAND, Oregon's own daughter, who has won many championships in the Round-Up arena at Pendleton, and who goes there on September 14, as the Round-Up's first cowgirl queen.PENDLETON. Ore.. Aug. 27—An Ore-j Other states, seeing what Oregon gon cowgirl has come in to her own. i was accomplishing in the cowgirl line, Mabel Struklaiid. nee Dc Long, ir; | started to dig up a few of their own. to be queen ni in famous Pendleton: Idaho. Oregon’s nearest neighbor, Round-Up. Her reign begins on Sep- ' turned out Bonnie McCarroll, who (ember 14. w 'h hr.- ! coronation cere- needs no introduction to Round-Up monies in the R und-Up arena, which! fans. She hail$ from Boise, and rides wiil be her i t .im during the ensuing , broncs. Bonnie Gay also claims Idaholour days. This is the first time in the 18 years' History of the famous Round-Up that a cowgirl has been selected as Us queen.Old-time Round-Up fans are loud in their acclaim oJ the Round-Up officials’ choosing of the Oregon girl to Jill the first cowgirl Uironc, for Oregon has been in the lead in providing cowgirls ever since the species was discovered way back • whim? Who knows? •Anyhow, they found 'em first in Oregon.Mabel started on the way to fame some little time ago She refuses to state just when. But she’s a cowgirl, and a real one. She can ride any brono the boys can get a saddle on.as hr i s. and Idaho is right glad to admit it- -even outshouts Bonnie, in telling the( world about it.The movement spread east into Wyoming, and Brida Miller rode into the arenas from Douglas. This was too much for South Dakota, which fouhd Grace Runyan at Spearfish. Colorado took a look at that, and had one spasm which ended with five. There’s Josephine Wickes, from Colorado Springs; Edith Cottrell from Center: Esmay Harcourt and Gladys Weimer both from Greeley, and Vaun Kreig of Holly.Texas was next. From Fort Worth came the assertion that they had plenty of cowgirls there, and from Fort, Worth came some good ones. There'sShe can rope a steer bust and hog'toiPox Hastlngs an„ claire Belcher bothu r T a 'V^0)e 10 I from Fort Worth, and both steer bull-iw!U, , Pofessional | loggers besides being cowladies. Andlie-male ropers In one exhibitioneven’. Mabel beat nine contestants _who had paid $100 apiece entrance strings”ra'nd flat 'ra fees lo get into a roping .contest. • Her 1 *ancj fancy ridfn fame as a relay rider is as long as the Mississippi valley, and as wide as the distance from Vermont to California.Ail these things make her selection as queen an extremely popular one.Ruth Roach, who rides broncs. And Tad Lucas, who Tides broncs and relayand does trick Oklahoma sent forth Pearl Gist, wife of Pinky, the famous clown. Pearl i$ a trick roper.Then, as was to be feared and expected, Los Angeles climbed aboard the bandwagon, and claimed Rose Smithr • • - i —- o w--, vmmiivm A V VO V. KJiillLJiiAnd there are many other Oregon j Whether the Angelinas moved the citycowgirls, on the road to the fame that is Mabel's, who will comprise her court. There is Lorena Trickcy. another Ore-'gcn cowgirl. Lorena won't be able to v-rk at this Round-Up. because of inlimits over into Pineville, Oregon, to get her has not been ascertained.These artd others from Oregon and elsewhere will be thermaids-of-honor, the ladies-in-waiting, and such, at the.nine:, sustained chasing horses near ; court of Queen MabeTthe First. They Unk n last spring. There's Lauretta wiil also be among the stellar performButler, also of Oregon, even of Pendleton.ers in the arena, as will the queen her self in the many cowgirl events.
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Twin Falls Daily News
Twin Falls, Idaho, US
Sun, Aug 28, 1927
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