"[5] Simpson wanted to settle on a ranch or homestead but McGinnis was able to make him agree to doing rodeos during the summer.

[3] She then moved to Utah where she first worked as a stenographer, and then got a job with the Salt Lake City Sight Seeing Company where to was able to interact with cowboys and cowgirls from the rodeos.

[10] After participating in her first relay race at a rodeo in Salt Lake City in 1913, she stopped wearing her long corset.

[11] She placed third overall and ended by falling and breaking some teeth, but she discovered her passion and signed a contract as a relay race rider.

[3] While she was getting better as a rider she faced some discrimination from other women in the field because she didn't have a ranch background, she was educated, and she experienced success in a short amount of time.

The troupe owned the horses and paid the riders a percentage of the prize if they won, based on the individual contracts.

In 1922, McGinnis traveled with the Jack Burroughs Wild West Show to the Territory of Hawaii, where she broke two ribs in a bronco-busting contest in Honolulu.

[13][14] The following year she tied for second place in trick riding at Ringling's Madison Square Garden Rodeo in New York City.

They did two shows daily for three weeks in London's recently completed Wembley Stadium as part of the British Empire Exhibition.