No woman in America straddled the worlds of both Wild West shows and rodeo quite like Lucille Mulhall. Born in 1885, Lucille grew up on her family's ranch near Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, and began riding and roping at an early age. By the age of ten, she was entertaining crowds at the request of Guthrie's mayor. As early as 1897 Lucille showcased her skills and was promoted by her father, Zack Mulhall, in Mulhall's Congress of Rough Riders and Ropers. Lucille quickly gained fame and even impressed future-president Theodore Roosevelt and twenty-five thousand other onlookers at the Rough Riders Reunion in Oklahoma City in July 1900.