Entertainer, wild west show and rodeo performer and 10 time World Champion. She was born Cleo Alberta Holmes to John and Mary Holmes. She disliked her given name as a child, so her father called her Florence instead. She wanted to join the circus and eventually persuaded her mother, and by the age of 14, she left home with Ringling Brothers Circus after the last show in Augusta, Georgia. While traveling, she learned trick riding, trick roping, and Roman riding. By 1915, the troupe had disbanded, and she joined Captain Jack King's Wild West show with her own production, "Princess Mohawk," later renamed "Princess Mohawk's Wild West Hippodrome." Often, they traveled with other shows and carnivals. In 1918, she joined the Barnum & Bailey Circus and learned resinback riding and how to turn a backward somersault from May Wirth, a well-known circus and vaudeville performer. She competed as "Princess Mohawk" and won her first rodeo at the Calgary Stampede in 1919. In a three-mile competition against eight men, she won the Prince of Wales trophy for Roman Riding. There were no other women's events for her to compete in that year. She sold the solid silver trophy for $1,500.00 right away. (Today's value, $24,500.) After her Canadian win, she gained confidence and began competing in major rodeos such as Cheyenne, Pendleton, Chicago, and Fort Worth. Over her career, she competed under the last names of Holmes, Hughes, King, Fenton, and Randolph, as well as Princess Mohawk on occasion. In 1921, she married a bronco rider named Angelo Hughes, who died four months later in an automobile accident in Texas. After the Phoenix rodeo, she traveled to meet friends in Hollywood. She was encouraged to stand in for movie actress Shirley Mason while she was there. She'd make two or three hundred bucks for doing dangerous horseback riding jobs that actors refused to do for movies, like riding horses over cliffs. She also posed as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty. She left Hollywood and returned to her true passion, rodeo. Before she retired in 1939, she was a ten-time "Trick Rider World Champion" and a "Bronic Rider World Champion" and made more than 500 rodeo appearances, performing bronc riding, trick roping, trick riding, and roman riding. She was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1968 and the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1994.