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That Cowboy is a Cowgirl!

About the Author

Gracia Casey Thibodeaux is a Brazos Valley journalist with more than three decades expeirence as reporter, columnist, and editor. A horse woman all her life, she rode before she walked. She has had many articles published in horse publications including Western Horseman and Horse and Horseman and she has been included in a Western Writers of America anthology. During her years as a Brazos Valley journalist she has served as agriculture editor of several newspapers. Her ancestors made the Oklahoma Run and Cherokee Strip and her great grandfather taught at the Indian School in Talequa, I. T. Her grandfather was raised with the Cree Indians and was a trail drover, mustanger, and wrangler. Her father's family owned land adjoining the James family in Liberty, Missouri and her father's grandfather was killed in the New Mexico range wars. She has worked cattle, judged horse shows, caught and broken mustangs, and raised and shown Quarter Horses. Currently she works part time as a ranch hand on a female owned ranch near Calvert. She rides a foundation Quarter Horse, grandson of Joe Reed P-3 and King's Pistol, a cowpony she has ridden for over half her life. She feels that cowgirls are the unsung heroines of the American West, both past and present and would like reader input into subjects to write about. Please drop her a note at Box 666, Calvert, Texas 77837 or leave a message at 979-422-9131 or e-mail this site
with suggestions for future columns.