"[1] Alice Greenough Orr was born in 1902 and raised on a ranch near Red Lodge, Montana, where she learned to train horses.
Orr first rode a bucking horse in rodeo competition at Forsyth, Montana when the cowboys competing at the event dared her to do it.
'After her first marriage ended, she worked at a boarding house, then turned to a career in rodeo, both in competitive and exhibition events.
Her interest in bronc riding began in 1929, when she and her sister, Marge Greenough Henson (1908–2004), answered an advertisement from Jack King's Wild West Show.
[6] In the 1940s, she paired with a long-time friend, Joe Orr (1905–1978), and they created their own show, the Greenough-Orr Rodeo, which toured the US and Canada.
[7] Their rodeo put on the first women's barrel racing events, and Greenough Orr is credited with inventing the competition.