Horse Race: A Happy Trail Memory

Utah Public Radio | By Kerry Bringhurst

Published April 26, 2016 at 11:42 AM MDT

89 year-old Dorothy Caldwell Luck reminisces with close friend Colleen Bagley about a three day, 136 mile horse race where she bested 60 other riders on her horse, Cortez. Dorothy Luck reads from an article she wrote for the Roosevelt Standard about her experience on the trail. She precedes her story, quoting the article written about her in September 1958.

Kerry Bringhurst

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.

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