KITTIE WILKINS Horse Queen of Idaho

Slide Presentation at the Marshall Public Library, September 26,2009 Saturday,1:00p.m.

One of the most fascinating women of the Old West, KittieWilkins, the Horse Queen of Idaho, was the only woman at the turn of the twentieth century whose sole occupation was horse dealer. TheWilkins herd, the largest owned by one family in the AmericanWest, boasted 10,000 range-bred horses, all with the famous Diamond Brand. Wilkins sold horses by the train load, making the largest horse sale ever in the West when she sold about 8,000 head in a single transaction in 1900. She was featured in hundreds of newspaper articles in the United States and abroad.

Presented by Philip A. Homan of ISU’s Eli M. Oboler Library. Homan is writing the first biography of Kittie Wilkins, with support from the Idaho Humanities Council.