I Want to be a Cowgirl

Why is it when poking around auctions and shows, you never find any items of memorabilia  for sale concerning cowgirls?

Hollywood had a love affair with cowgirls during the early years of cinema---when serials starring Marie Wallcamp and Josie Sedgwick filled cinemas with roping and riding and shooting cowgirls and rodeo riders.  Closer to our time, Dale Evans knew how to ride and rope with the best of the boys.  Millie Baldwin and Tillie Douglas were women cowgirl trick riders in the early years.  You have to have a name like Millie or Tillie if you are going to perform horse riding tricks I think...

And those skirts!!  And those gloves!  and those BOOTS!

And the beadwork and sequins!!

My very first dress up costume was a cowgirl costume--I have been channeling cowgirl for a Very Long Time.

The romantic stories of the american west always regale stories about cowboys--and any women of the west were always long suffering wives in conastoga wagons or hookers or saloon singers.  May I introduce the real adventurous ladies of the west?  The cowgirl!!