When she was a young child, Reba Perry Blakely learned to ride a horse because she had difficulty walking. From that start, she became an accomplished trick roper, rider and World Champion Relay Rider. She left rodeo to teach horsemanship, but with her interest in preserving rodeo history, Blakely became a recognized historical researcher, using collected stories from the people she met and her own experiences to become an author of Western and rodeo history.
