EVENTS
Trick Rider & Roper
Rodeo Clown
Contestant
Dixie Reger Mosley was born in 1930 at Buffalo, Oklahoma, to a rodeo performing family. At the age of 5 ½ she was trick riding for Colonel Jim Eskew on a Shetland pony. The family performed all over the East for the next five years at various rodeos. Returning to Oklahoma her father, Monte, put on rodeos and the children performed. They were homeschooled by their mother, Opal. Dixie began public high school when she was 12 years old and rode her horse to school. As a teenager she also began jumping palomino horses over cars and began her rodeo clown career.
When the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA) was formed Dixie was a charter member. She served as Contract Representative and Vice President. She clowned at all the GRA rodeos, trick rode and roped, and competed in the roping events and an occasional bull or bareback event.
She retired in 1953 to marry Bill Mosley, a cattle buyer, inspector and owner of a meat-packing plant. They had three children, and live d in Amarillo, TX.
Dixie was inducted to the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1982; the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas, named her Pioneer Woman of the Year in 2004. She is the only woman Rodeo Clown in professional rodeo that clowned for 12 years.
