Rodeo Women Blog

It’s been interesting being a woman raising bucking horses, because when I started doing this, there was just me. It’s not a normal thing for us to do. I just fell into it because of the family and because you have to do something with horses like this. And of course, the family’s been involved with rodeo my entire life. We put on rodeos and hauled horses. You have to do something...

I was born into rodeo. For the girls, it was all the background work that kept the machine going, right?…..We had to iron our brother’s clothes perfectly. We had to babysit their kids when they were gone. We had to cook for them when they came home and their friends, whoever they brought home….I had seven brothers, so Dad (Gus Gottfriedson) didn’t really think it was a girl’s...

I expect you are all wondering what the heck is going on! I have been working my way through each of the interviews very carefully and choosing excerpts to support the essential parts of the film. Next steps will be the very creative parts. That requires long walks in the woods and deep thinking. LOL. But true.

I just want to give a bit of an update on the progress towards our film. I have spent a lot of time this fall (so far) listening to the amazing women I interviewed in the summer of 2022 — first in and around the Falkland Stampede and then over to Sundre and women around there. I keep thinking about the lists on the song “I’ve been everywhere.” Imagine the tune and sing along...

I had the honour ad pleasure of interviewing Elda for the film in the summer of 2022. Her daughter Donna posted the following on September 14, 2023 This lady left us last night just after 11pm at the young age of 84. She waited til she had heard from all of us and we were all gone for the day and then she slipped away …. just like she did most things, in her own time and as a last act of...