This Week in the West: Alice Greenough Orr

This Week in the West · Mar 17, 2025 · 4m

🤠This Week in the West

🎙️ Episode 20: Alice Greenough Orr

📢 Episode Summary:

On this week’s episode of This Week in the West, we meet Alice Greenough Orr, a Montana ranch girl who became the First Lady of Rodeo. While performing in Spain, Alice found herself in a bullfighting arena where the matador had failed to finish the job. The restless crowd grew impatient—until Alice stepped forward, jumped onto the still-angry bull, and rode it, holding onto its ears until it threw her off. The matador was booed out of the ring, but Alice left the arena as a legend.

Born on March 17, 1902, Alice grew…