Bobby Brooks Kramer
Bobby Brooks Kramer (December 1, 1913 – January 5, 2005) was a pioneering American horsewoman from Montana. One of the first women to ride broncs for prize money, she learned to ride on her family’s ranch near Big Sheep Mountain and worked there with her brothers.
She married Corwin "Bud" Kramer in 1943. Together they ran the ranch, rodeoed, and later started the Diamond A Horse Ranch, building one of the nation’s great horse operations. Kramer earned many awards in cutting, trail, reining, and pleasure riding from groups like the American Quarter Horse Association and the National Cutting Horse Association. In 1968 Gary Crowder joined as a partner to form the Kramer Crowder Horse Ranch. After retiring from rodeo, the Kramers started the Hanging Diamond A Horse Ranch, where they raised horses that won many prizes.
She also competed in endurance rides in the 1950s and, in 1989, rode with the drovers on the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive. Kramer appeared in two documentaries and, even in old age, continued showing her AQHA gelding Red, winning a high-point award at age 90 at the Billings Saddle Club. She died at 91 near Billings, Montana, in 2005; her husband had died in 1979. She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2000.
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