Little Cowgirl

This is a photo of either my mother (Margaret, the eldest kid in the family) or her sister Geraldine (next eldest girl), probably taken in the early 1930s in Leelanau County, Michigan. I found it in a book after my mother died, so I really don't know much about it. I'm sure that they didn't own a pony -- they had enough trouble feeding six kids during the Depression. My guess is that there was some kind of traveling Wild West show, and kids could put on hats and chaps and have their pictures taken on a bucking pony.