This chapter centers on photographs of women rodeo competitors and their horses, disseminated in the form of Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs) in the early twentieth century. During this period, women competed against men and each other in trick riding, bronc busting, steer roping, and bulldogging (steer wrestling), and cowpony, relay, and Roman races. This chapter examines specifically how the RPPC constructed the cowgirl through her relationship with animals. It moves beyond the photograph's evidentiary nature to consider its intersections between female performer and audience, mediated through the figure of the horse since women tended to concentrate in the disciplines of saddle bronc and trick riding. The rodeo cowgirl postcard performs a kind of doubling, revealing the woman as an actor, performing a mythic West of history, and as a participant, shaping the lived reality of the modern West. As cheap, entertaining images, available to the public, RPPCs show women in empowered, physical roles, their identities mutually bound to and informed by those animals with whom they performed.