{"id":14913,"date":"2025-10-22T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14913\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:31:11","slug":"americas-first-cowgirl-born-in-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14913\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America\u2019s first cowgirl\u2019 born in 1885"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MULHALL, Okla. (KSWO) &#8211; On this day in 1885, Lucille Mulhall, who many know as \u201cAmerica\u2019s first cowgirl,\u201d was born.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Lucille Mulhall, ~1905\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SKAN66AHLJGYFMZKEOVVUGGQQM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1307\" \/>Lucille Mulhall, ~1905(Oklahoma Historical Society)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lucille was born in Mulhall, named after her father Zach Mulhall, on their family ranch. Throughout her childhood, she learned about riding, roping and cattle herding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Mulhall after completing a steer roping, date unknown\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TK3NEPTOEVFPNPFAEBFSLVBCBA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Mulhall after completing a steer roping, date unknown(Oklahoma Historical Society)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, Lucille was among the first women to compete against men in roping and riding. She impressed future president Theodore Roosevelt among attendees at the Rough Riders Reunion in Oklahoma City in 1900.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Lucille Mulhall, 1915\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/52SQCD7L4ZG7RAPMO7YB27ADJ4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1511\" \/>Lucille Mulhall, 1915(Oklahoma Historical Society)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lucille died in 1940 and was later inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1975. She was also inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MULHALL, Okla. (KSWO) &#8211; On this day in 1885, Lucille Mulhall, who many know as \u201cAmerica\u2019s first cowgirl,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12115,12106,116,118,117,12110,12105,12114,12112,12107,12113,12108,12111,12109],"class_list":["post-14913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-7news","tag-americas-first-cowgirl","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-kswo","tag-lucille-mulhall","tag-mulhall","tag-oklahoma-history","tag-oklahoma-rodeo-history","tag-southwest-oklahoma","tag-theodore-roosevelt","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-women-in-rodeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}