One day, her best friend persuades her to come to a local rodeo, where she sees Luke.

That June, he took her to a local rodeo to photograph bull riding- acrashcourse in in-the-momentproblem-solving

Mattie remembered going to the local rodeos as a girl but was too young to recall Gil.

In her teens, she and Elvis had won dozens of trophies and blue ribbons for calf roping and barrel racing in local rodeos.