About Gail Hughbanks Woerner
Gail Woerner was born and raised on a ranch in northeastern Colorado and worked with cattle and broke horses with her grandfather. She has written five books on the history of rodeo, a children’s book on rodeo and numerous articles in various western-related magazines and periodicals including magazines in France, Canada and Australia.
Gail is the Chairman of the Oral History Project for the Rodeo Historical Society and interviews senior cowboys and cowgirls and those being inducted in to the Society’s Hall of Fame. These videos and vocal recordings are housed in the archives of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Gail is the Chairman of the Rodeo Clown Reunion which is held at various rodeos across the nation and generally has forty retired laugh-getters, bullfighters and barrelmen attend. They don their familiar makeup and costumes and sign autographs and entertain the fans. She also writes a newsletter to numerous retired rodeo clowns and their widows monthly.
She received the Academy of Western Artists Will Rogers MedallionAward for Western Nonfiction for her book entitled, Rope to Win, The History of Steer, Calf and Team Roping in 2008. She received the American Cowboy Culture Award for Western Writing at the National Cowboy Symposium held in Lubbock, TX, in 2009. She received the Western Heritage Award at the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2012.
Gail lives near Austin, Texas, with her husband, Cliff.
Gail is the Chairman of the Oral History Project for the Rodeo Historical Society and interviews senior cowboys and cowgirls and those being inducted in to the Society’s Hall of Fame. These videos and vocal recordings are housed in the archives of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Gail is the Chairman of the Rodeo Clown Reunion which is held at various rodeos across the nation and generally has forty retired laugh-getters, bullfighters and barrelmen attend. They don their familiar makeup and costumes and sign autographs and entertain the fans. She also writes a newsletter to numerous retired rodeo clowns and their widows monthly.
She received the Academy of Western Artists Will Rogers MedallionAward for Western Nonfiction for her book entitled, Rope to Win, The History of Steer, Calf and Team Roping in 2008. She received the American Cowboy Culture Award for Western Writing at the National Cowboy Symposium held in Lubbock, TX, in 2009. She received the Western Heritage Award at the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2012.
Gail lives near Austin, Texas, with her husband, Cliff.