One of the first women to make a splash during Outside’s formative years was E. Jean Carroll who in 1981 reported on a championship that was equal parts rodeo and beauty pageant. She came back with a story that advanced the magazine’s rambunctious style and treated saddle queens with the respect they deserve.
In a conversation among three hall-of-fame veterans from Outside’s early years, E. Jean Carroll talks about her life, her career, and how she came to write a funny, much loved story that had serious feminist intent
OGDEN When she was just a young teenager, Karen Neuenschwander Gall bought her first horse named Duchess with her hard-earned babysitting money. “I began