Lockhart, Caroline
1871 - 1962
Park County
Biographical and Professional Information
Caroline Lockhart was born in Eagle Point, Illinois, and moved to Cody, Wyoming, in 1904 where she wrote several bestselling novels. Later she became the owner, publisher, and editor of the "Cody Enterprise" newspaper and helped found the Cody Stampede rodeo. She stayed with "Sheep Queen" Lucy Moore in Hot Springs County, and it is believed that Mrs. Moore was the model for Lockhart's "Fighting Shepherdess." Lockhart also stayed often in Hot Springs State Park at the Washakie Hotel. "Praeriens Helt" was the Danish translation of "Me-Smith." In 1926 she homesteaded a ranch in "the Dryhead," just across the Montana border east of the Pryor Mountains. In 1950 she returned to Cody, where she died in 1962.
Books about Caroline Lockhart include Caroline Lockhart: Her Life and Legacy by Necah Stewart Furman (1994), Caroline Lockhart: Liberated Lady by Lucille Patrick Hicks (1984), and the forthcoming The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart by John Clayton (University of Nebraska Press, spring 2007).
Genres
Fiction
Western
Wyoming Subjects
Titles
- Old West--and new: A novel (1933). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. ISBN: (?).
- The Dude Wrangler (1921). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. ISBN: (?).
- The Fighting Shepherdess (1919). New York: L. Burt. ISBN: (?).
- Praeriens Helt (1918). Denmark: Aschehoug. ISBN: (?).
- The Man from the Bitter Roots (1915). Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott. ISBN: (?). Illustrations by Gayle Hoskins (1887-1962).
- The Full of the Moon (1914). Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott. ISBN: (?). Illustrations by Charles Stephens (1855-1931).
- Me--Smith (1911). Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott. ISBN: (?). Illustrations by Gayle Hoskins (1887-1962).
- The Lady Doc (1912). Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott. ISBN: (?). Illustrations by Gayle Hoskins (1887-1962).
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