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Caroline Cameron Lockhart (1871–1962) was an American journalist and author.

Biography

Caroline Lockhart was born in Eagle Point, Illinois on February 24, 1871.[1][2][3] She grew up on a ranch in Kansas.[1][2] She attended Bethany College in Topeka, Kansas and the Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[1][2]

A failed actress, she became a reporter for The Boston Post and later for the Philadelphia Bulletin.[1][2] She also started writing short stories.[1] In 1904, she moved to Cody, Wyoming to write a feature article about the Blackfoot Indians, and settled there.[1][2] She started writing novels and her second novel, The Lady Doc, was based on life in Cody.[1] In 1918–1919, she lived in Denver, Colorado and worked as a reporter for The Denver Post.[1][2][3] In 1919, her novel The Fighting Shepherdess, loosely based on the life of sheepherder Lucy Morrison Moore, was made into a 1920 movie starring Anita Stewart, with uncredited script adaptation by Lenore J. Coffee.[1][3] So was her early novel, The Man from Bitter Roots (1916).[3] She also met with Douglas Fairbanks about adapting The Dude Wrangler,[3] which was filmed in 1930.

From 1920 to 1925, she owned the newspaper Park County Enterprise, and it was renamed the Cody Enterprise in 1921.[1][2] From 1920 to 1926, she served as President of the Cody Stampede Board.[1][2] In 1926, she bought a ranch in Dryhead, Montana, now part of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area where she lived until 1950.[1][2][4] She still spent her winters in Cody, where she eventually retired.[1][2] She died on July 25, 1962.[1] The Caroline Lockhart Ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and its structures were restored by the National Park Service.[5][6] In 2018, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inducted her.[7]

Bibliography

Novels

• Me-Smith (1911)
• The Lady Doc (1912)
• The Full of the Moon (1914)
• The Man From Bitter Roots (1915)
• The Fighting Shepherdess (1919)
• The Dude Wrangler (1921)
• The Old West and the New (1933)

References

Secondary sources

• Hicks, Lucille Patrick. Caroline Lockhart: Liberated Lady (Pioneer Printing, 1984)
• Yates, Norris. Caroline Lockhart (Boise State University Western Writers Series, 1994)
• Furman, Necah Stewart. Caroline Lockhart: Her Life and Legacy (University of Washington Press, 1994)
• Nicholas, Liza. Becoming Western: Stories of Culture And Identity in the Cowboy State (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
• Clayton, John. The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)

External links

• Works by Caroline Lockhart at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Caroline Lockhart at Internet Archive
• Works by Caroline Lockhart at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Caroline Lockhart Ranch, 1981 profile of Caroline Lockhart by Mary Shivers Culpin for the National Park Service

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