Entertainer, cowgirl, rodeo performer, and businesswoman. She was born on a cattle ranch near Craig, Colorado, and moved to Southern California with her family when she was 14, shortly before her mother died. Her father founded the Lazy 3 Riding Academy in Burbank, California, where he provided wild horses and saddle horses for hire to film companies. While working at her father's stables, she perfected her riding technique, trick riding, and roping. She got her start in movies at the young age of 16 when she doubled in a number of westerns, performing stunts that were considered too dangerous for Hollywood actors. She was a double for numerous actresses, including Rhonda Fleming, Betty Grable, Doris Day, and Betty Hutton. She and her brother formed a horse trick act and competed on the rodeo circuit in their late teens. She made an easy transition from the film industry to the rodeo circuit. She would go to rodeos and watch the trick riders perform before going home and practicing what she had seen. When she was 19, she dressed up as a cowgirl and rode a longhorn steer in the Labor Unionists' parade in Los Angeles. She was chosen "Miss California Cowgirl of 1942" at a Santa Barbara event, and she presided over rodeos that summer. She rode in shows with numerous rodeos at Madison Square Garden in New York City for more than seven years. In the late 1940s, she had her own rodeo trick riding comic strip called "Faye Flash," which appeared in newspapers sponsored by Camel cigarettes. She also appeared in smaller advertisements for the same company in newspapers, magazines, and rodeo programs. She even spent a month playing at historical places in Paris and Rome. She met William Blesing, a rodeo rider on the same circuit, and married him in 1944. In 1947, he was the world's champion bull rider, and he turned his passion for horses and riding into film productions. He was a stuntman and actor who occasionally worked with her on television series such as F Troop and Wanted Dead or Alive. She retired from trick riding in 1978. She and her husband later relocated to Ramona, California, and built a bar called, Wag Inn, located in Sylmar. She was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1978.

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