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COWBOYS CROWN GIRL QUEEN OF THE RANGE
Indian Territory Lassie Ropes Three Steers in Record Time,
Defeating all Competitors

Starke County Republican, 15 Oct 1903


South McAlester, I. T., special:
Lucille Mulhall, 17 hears old, and a friend of President Roosevelt, won the $1,000 steer roping contest here, defeating the best-known cowboys in the Southwest.

The conditions were that three steers were to be roped and tied in the fastest time, and the contest was open to all. Miss Mulhall threw her first steer and tied it up in 43 seconds. The second required 1 minute and 11 seconds, while the third was roped, thrown, and tied in the remarkably fast time of 40 seconds.

The strenuous young woman was enthusiastically cheered by an army of ranchmen, cowboys, Indians and others who witnessed the performances, while the vanquished ropers acknowledged their defeat by proclaiming her the "Queen of the Range."

Miss Mulhall's home is at Mulhall, I. T., where her father, who is the live stock agent for the 'Frisco railroad, has a mammoth ranch. She is as much at home in the saddle and on the range as the average American girl is in the drawing room.

Miss Mulhall is young to have achieved such distinction, having only recently passed her seventeenth birthday.






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