Original Wasco Co. Courthouse holds final 2022 history forum presentation

There is a limit of 100 participants. The host will open the Zoom meeting at 1:15 p.m., the presentation starts promptly at 1:30 p.m., and admission ends once the program begins.

Trickey was born on Valentine’s Day 1893 in the long-gone logging town of Palmer, Ore., at the west end of the Columbia Gorge. She joined the Clarence Adams Wild West Show in 1917 as a trick rider. She was three-time winner of the McAlpin Trophy for bronc, Roman, and relay riding at Cheyenne Frontier Days. In 1925, she won the bronc riding title at Chicago and several championships at Pendleton.

Trickey doubled for Mary Pickford in the movie “Through the Back Door” and worked with Tom Mix in “The Queen of Sheba.” Accused of stabbing her husband, “Smiling Slim” Harris, to death during an argument, she pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty in 1927. She married a Nevada miner, attended a school of mining and engineering, and prospected around Nevada with her husband for many years. Trickey died in 1961 and in 2000 she was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

The online presentation, just like in-person programs over the past 40-plus years, is free. But donations to the Original Courthouse are gladly accepted.