Kitty canutt 1919 world events
In , Kitty won the Ladies' Relay Race at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo..
In November , Kitty rode the famed bucking broncho Misky Mix at the Arizona State Fair.
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Katherine “Kitty” Derre was born in New York on July 15, 1899. She was the daughter of Maryann and D.E. Derre.
Katherine was a talented bronc rider and had a knack for breaking horses.
She would ride them to submission and if she was bucked off she’d hop right back on. She was also good at trick riding and relay racing.
Canutt champion lady rider of the world on Winnemucca, Kitty Canutt, stage name Kitty Wilks (July 15, - June 3, ), was a professional bronc.She wanted to ride the wildest horses out there!
Katherine married James Martin “Jim” Wilkes in 1912.
She was living in Miles City, Montana by 1916. In September, Katherine set out on the rodeo road appearing at Miles City first.
She was new to the sport and entered numerous events as practice.
At Miles City, “in the ladies relay Mrs. Wilkes has her usual hard luck and on the first change would have got off first, but as her second horse was starting it ran into the horse that she had quit and this put her behind a second or two and on the third change she did not get her seat before she was off and it