CHEYENNE — How do you define a cowgirl in Wyoming? First, you have to look back to their beginning, when cowgirls really started showing their tough buckskin in the rodeo world. Wyoming cowgirls have ...

Women have been in rodeo since rodeo began but, as has happened so often, as the sport began gaining popularity, women were pushed out. Maybe it was because cowboys couldn’t bear to be bested by ...

COLUMBUS - Soon the bleachers will be full on sunny Saturday afternoons as competitors take their places on muddy fields across the Midwest. But for Rachel Tiedeman, the sound of fall sports will ...

Cowgirl Rachel Dice gives a barely perceptible nod. The gate swings open. Dice and her horse Katie shoot forward, angling to the right where a barrel waits amid dry mounds of dirt. Rider and mare slow ...