In the summer of 1904, twenty-one-year-old Bertha Kaepernik left her parents homestead in eastern Colorado and set off on a 100-mile journey across the open plains.

Bertha decided head to the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo and to try and win the Union Pacific’s saddle outfit valued at $250.

1904 would mark the first year the Frontier Day Committee would allow women to compete in the rough stock world of bucking horses and mark a dramatic shift for the new sport of rodeo.

The film will explore what happened when Bertha entered the Frontier Days arena and how it came to pass that a whole generation of women competed on the rodeo circuit.