Entertainer, rodeo performer and horse racer. She was born in Yakima County, Washington, on the Yakama Indian reservation, on her parents' horse ranch. Her mother was Native American and her father was Caucasian. She got her first pony at the age of two, and by the age of five, she was racing her horse against her father's ranch workers. By the age of 10, she was riding and racing her father's thoroughbreds at local fairs and on the Yakima Indian reservation. Her success on the reservation with horse racing led to rodeo performances where she rode bucking broncos and did relay races. By the age of 18, she was competing in the ladies' relay race on the western rodeo circuit. She became known as the world's greatest female trick rider in the mid-1910s and was the first woman to perform the famous "drunk ride," in which she sat on the saddle, swaying from side to side, waving a bottle while her horse raced forward at high speed. At any event, it is generally one of her main attractions. From 1913 to 1916, she won the "World Champion Relay Race" four years in a row at Walla Walla, Pendleton, Toppenish, and Vancouver, and again at Toppenish in 1930. She began racing horses in the 1920s and went on to become the first registered female thoroughbred trainer in history. She raced her thoroughbreds in derbies all the way up and down the west coast, as well as into Mexico and Canada. She usually had more than one horse in a race. Cyclonic, who won 26 races and three straight Spokane Derby titles from 1928 to 1930, was her favorite racehorse. She was well-liked by some Hollywood types and was known for picking winners for Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Clark Gable. Gable presented her with the winner's trophy when her horse, Piracy, won the Clark Gable Handicap at Landsdowne Park in British Columbia in 1933. She won the Playfair Training Titles in Spokane, Washington, in 1939 and again in 1945. She was in charge of the Longacres racetrack and stables from 1930 until 1940. She was denied racing at the Santa Anita racetrack in California simply because she was a woman. The track relented in 1940, and she won two races on her first day. She watched three horses she bred and trained win a three-way tie for first place in 1946. She was the first vice president of the Washington Horse Breeders' Association from 1945 to 1946 and was a strong advocate for improving the state's breeding operations. She retired to her family ranch and continued to care for and shoe her horses until she was in her early 70s. Toppenish, Washington, honored her life achievements with a six-section mural on the exterior wall of a building on Washington Avenue in 1998. She was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Washington Racing Hall of Fame in 2019.