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Visiting Tom Mix in Mixville
Goldie Griffith and Charley Mulhall, Lucille’s brother, visited cowboy star Tom Mix in Los Angeles in 1914. Mix had been a performer with the Miller Brothers’ 101 Wild West show–the same show that gave Goldie her start. Tom Mix was Hollywood’s first...
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A Cowgirl in San Francisco
After the Lucille Mulhall Girl Ranger tour ended, Goldie joined the Miller Brothers 101 Wild West in San Francisco for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. As a member of the Miller Brothers 101 Wild West show, Goldie performed rodeo tricks and probably rode...
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Trick rider, show girl, athlete
Goldie posed in woolly chaps for a photo with a Mrs. Johnson when she was touring with the Lucille Mulhall Girl Rangers. Cowgirls were often invited to society events when their Wild West shows came to town, and city women wanted to have their pictures taken with the famous...
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Girl Rangers
This photograph of cowgirl Goldie Griffith was taken for promotion of the show she traveled with in 1914. As part of Lucille Mulhall’s Girl Rangers, Goldie traveled with Lucille, Lucille’s brother, and Lucille’s father around Canada and the U.S. Lucille...
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"A roller-coaster ride through the Wild West of Buffalo Bill"
A true story of a professional athlete, rancher, movie actor, and bronco buster
Reviews
“After I started reading it, I could not put it down except to sleep a few hours.
It was a great ‘read,’ and as a western historian, I could not believe that I had never heard of Goldie Griffith Cameron…she certainly deserves to be recognized as more than a bit player in the overall story of the West in times past.” –Alvin G. Davis, President-Chairman, National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration more reviews
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Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum on Lookout Mountain, and I unveiled...
Just after Goldie married Harry Sterling (a.k.a. Harry Smith and Harry Walters) they...
Goldie Griffith. From a glass plate negative.
Goldie in one of her restaurants in Nederland, Colorado, in 1952.
This image of a young Goldie was preserved on a glass plate negative.
Goldie (at right) was a wrestler, fencer, and boxer when she performed with the Blanche...
At 17, Goldie was a member of the Blanche Whitney Lady Athletes during the Appalachian...
Goldie is the third from the right in this photo from the Bill Penney Show that she and...
Frontier Day 1915 champions included Goldie’s first husband, Hiram Sterling...
Goldie posed with two friends from a Wild West show.