Here are a few photos from Goldie’s scrapbooks and from the book.
WHAT A LIFE!
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- This image of a young Goldie was preserved on a glass plate negative.
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- Harry (Hiram Sterling, Goldie’s first husband) is on the right on the stagecoach with the six-mule team in the Two Bills show. Goldie is on her horse with her hand raised to her hat. Goldie landed in the hospital after being thrown off the top of one of these stages in the Two Bills show.
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- Goldie boxed, fenced, and wrestled before she became a cowgirl.
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- Goldie and two friends from a Wild West show.
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- Champion cowboys in the 1915 Cheyenne Frontier Days
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- Goldie is the third from the right in this photo from the Bill Penney Show that she and Doc (next to her in the white shirt with dark scarf) toured with in 1923. The woman on the far right (next to Goldie) is wearing Goldie’s red leather wedding outfit.
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- At 17, Goldie was a member of the Blanche Whitney Lady Athletes during the Appalachian Exposition in 1910. Goldie is in the dark dress to the right of the woman in the center of the photo.
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- Goldie (at right) was a wrestler, fencer, and boxer when she performed with the Blanche Whitney Lady Athletes.
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- Goldie in one of her restaurants in Nederland, Colorado, in 1952.
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- Goldie Griffith. From a glass plate negative.
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- Goldie’s wedding dress, on display at History Colorado, has faded from its original red.
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- Goldie posed in her wedding dress before participating in a parade in Nederland.
A Cowgirl in San Francisco
After the Lucille Mulhall Girl Ranger tour ended, Goldie joined the Miller Brothers 101 Wild West in San Francisco for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. As a member of the Miller Brothers 101 Wild West show, Goldie performed rodeo tricks and...
Trick Rider, Show Girl, Athlete
Goldie posed in woolly chaps for a photo with a Mrs. Johnson when she was touring with the Lucille Mulhall Girl Rangers. Cowgirls were often invited to society events when their Wild West shows came to town, and city women wanted to have their pictures taken with the...
Visiting Tom Mix in Mixville
Goldie Griffith and Charley Mulhall, Lucille’s brother, visited cowboy star Tom Mix in Los Angeles in 1914. Mix had been a performer with the Miller Brothers’ 101 Wild West show–the same show that gave Goldie her start. Tom Mix was Hollywood’s first Western megastar...
Girl Rangers
This photograph of cowgirl Goldie Griffith was taken for promotion of the show she traveled with in 1914. As part of Lucille Mulhall’s Girl Rangers, Goldie traveled with Lucille, Lucille’s brother, and Lucille’s father around Canada and the U.S. Lucille Mulhall was...
Hold-Up Has a Bad Sequel
Just after Goldie married Harry Sterling (a.k.a. Harry Smith and Harry Walters) they were involved in an accident while performing in the holdup skit with the Deadwood stagecoach during a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. It was a grisly accident, and Goldie’s new husband...