Friday Photo: Fannie Sperry Steele

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Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, 947-603
World champion lady bronco rider Fannie Sperry Steele rides a steer at the Gilman Stampede, September 1919. Click on the photo for a bigger version.

Famed bronc buster Fannie Sperry Steele competed in rodeos until 1925. Then she and her husband bought a dude ranch near Lincoln. After her husband died in 1940, Steele ran the ranch by herself for another twenty-five years. She was one of the first women to receive a packe...