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==Career==

==Career==

Formby launched her collection of western and rodeo artifacts beginning in 1975 in Hereford,<ref name=margaret/> where her husband, [[Clint Formby]], was a [[radio]] broadcaster at the [[Country music|country-music]] station KPAN AM and FM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/030608/loc_254328517.shtml|author=Henri Brickey|title=Hereford radioman still going after decades|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=March 6, 2008|accessdate=December 21, 2009}}</ref>​

Formby launched her collection of western and rodeo artifacts beginning in 1975 in Hereford,<ref name=margaret/> where her husband, [[Clint Formby]], was a [[radio]] broadcaster at the [[Country music|country-music]] station KPAN AM and FM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/030608/loc_254328517.shtml|author=Henri Brickey|title=Hereford radioman still going after decades|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=March 6, 2008|accessdate=December 21, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

In 1994, the museum was relocated to a $21 million structure at 1720 Gendy Street in the heart of the Fort Worth cultural district. The first inductee into the Hall of Fame was Alice Greenough Orr (1902-1995) of [[Montana]], winner of three national rodeo championships in the 1930s and 1940s. Orr rode bulls in [[Spain]], was a riding instructor of [[Dale Evans Rogers]], and performed [[film]] [[stunt]]s even into her eighties. In 1993, Formby herself was the first woman elected to the [[Texas Tech University]] Rodeo Hall of Fame in [[Lubbock]]. The next year, she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame through her role as the founder of the museum.<ref name=margaret/> She was also the first ever "Miss Texas Tech" in 1949 and graduated in 1950 as an English and speech teacher. She taught at the high school level in both Colorado City in Mitchell County and Hereford, and she worked as the KPAN news director. She was the editor of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame magazine, ''Sidesaddle.''<ref name=bmi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233695|author=Thomas Korosec|title=Margaret Formby, former National Cowboy Hall of Fame Director, Dies in Texas|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2019}}</ref>​

In 1994, the museum was relocated to a $21 million structure at 1720 Gendy Street in the heart of the Fort Worth cultural district. The first inductee into the Hall of Fame was Alice Greenough Orr (1902-1995) of [[Montana]], winner of three national rodeo championships in the 1930s and 1940s. Orr rode bulls in [[Spain]], was a riding instructor of [[Dale Evans Rogers]], and performed [[film]] [[stunt]]s even into her eighties. In 1993, Formby herself was the first woman elected to the [[Texas Tech University]] Rodeo Hall of Fame in [[Lubbock]]. The next year, she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame through her role as the founder of the museum.<ref name=margaret/> She was also the first ever "Miss Texas Tech" in 1949 and graduated in 1950 as an English and speech teacher. She taught at the high school level in both Colorado City in Mitchell County and Hereford, and she worked as the KPAN news director. She was the editor of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame magazine, ''Sidesaddle.''<ref name=bmi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233695|author=Thomas Korosec|title=Margaret Formby, former National Cowboy Hall of Fame Director, Dies in Texas|publisher=bmi.com|accessdate=November 14, 2019}}</ref>​