Caroline Cameron Lockhart (February 24, 1871 – July 25, 1962) was an American journalist, author, newspaper publisher, rodeo promoter and rancher.

Along with Buffalo Bill and Senator Alan Kooi Simpson, she is one of Cody Wyoming's most famous citizens.

Caroline Lockhart was born in Eagle Point Township, Ogle County, Illinois on February 24, 1871.

[1][2][3] In 1919, her novel The Fighting Shepherdess, loosely based on the life of sheepherder Lucy Morrison Moore, was made into a 1920 movie starring Anita Stewart, with uncredited script adaptation by Lenore J.

In 1926, she bought a ranch in Dryhead, Montana, now part of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area where she lived until 1950.