Entertainer. She was recognized as a pioneer female rodeo performer and being a cowgirl. Born the oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Ella Bolt Owen, she spent her childhood roping, branding, and braking colts with her father on the NH Ranch outside San Angelo, Texas. She spent her entire life on ranches and was an excellent horsewoman, who rode in rodeos at a period when there were no events for women. As an adult, she owned her own ranch in Rankin, Texas. When she was 18, she was one of the eight ranch girl honor guests at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. After the show, she was invited to participate in the Madison Square Garden Rodeo by Col. J.R. Kilpatrick, a New York showman who described her as "about as good a calf roper as any man" he ever saw. She started her career at the age of 23. In her first rodeo, she competed against 17 other females in Pecos, Texas. The girls had to wear "flashy" western outfits and the race had to be run in a cloverleaf layout. That night, she won in reining and barrel racing. She also took first place in the girl's calf roping. She was a champion roper, having won the girl's roping contest four years in a row and being one of the first women to compete in calf roping at Pecos. She would compete with the men in calf roping on occasion and always win. She was a past director of the National Cutting Horse Association and served as the first president of the Girls Rodeo Association, which was founded in 1948 by 38 women. The group was renamed the Women's Professional Rodeo Association the following year. She earned 13 belt buckles and five saddles in rodeos between 1948 and 1951 and twice won the American World Barrel Racing Championship. She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Texas Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2014. Her career is documented in numerous Texas newspaper articles. She was married for a short time to Mr. Montgomery but the couple divorced with no children. She, along with another passenger, was instantly killed when a semi-truck rear-ended her automobile .