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Being accepted as a woman and a cowboy out in a camp is no easy task. I've seen a lotta girls try the same thing, but they think the way they do it is to drink and talk rough, but that doesn't cut it. The first thing I did was make them respect me as a woman

Being accepted as a woman and a cowboy out in a camp is no easy task. I've seen a lotta girls try the same thing, but they think the way they do it is to drink and talk rough, but that doesn't cut it. The first thing I did was make them respect me as a woman

-- and then they had to respect my ability. And that was true. ... I watched how I dressed, how I walked, how I talked. There was times I could be deep, and there was times when I wanted to laugh but I had to keep a stone straight face. ...<ref name=fallon>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanfolk.com/bgq/features/feature2/|title="The Last of the Old-Time Cowboys": Interview with Georgie Sicking, Fallon, Nevada, August 22, 1992|publisher=americanfolk.com|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref></blockquote>

-- and then they had to respect my ability. And that was true. ... I watched how I dressed, how I walked, how I talked. There was times I could be deep, and there was times when I wanted to laugh but I had to keep a stone straight face. ...<ref name=fallon>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanfolk.com/bgq/features/feature2/|title="The Last of the Old-Time Cowboys": Interview with Georgie Sicking, Fallon, Nevada|date=August 22, 1992|publisher=americanfolk.com|accessdate=January 10, 2022}}</ref></blockquote>

Georgie married Frank H. Sicking (1909-1974), a native of Muenster in Cooke County north of [[Dallas]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/Frank_H_Sicking_records.ashx?pid=108557985|title=Frank H. Sicking|publisher=records.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 31, 2014}}</ref> The two operated several ranches in Arizona, California, and [[Nevada]] before they settled down on an unimposing spread near Fallon in Churchill County  in western Nevada. There the couple reared their three children. Her poem "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" highlights the difficulty of operating a ranch without financial backing and inheritance.<ref name=elko/> Georgie described Frank as a "real cowboy" who even performed household chores while she was out riding the herd: "He was always there when the chips were down."<ref name=gawatkins>{{cite web|url=http://www.rangemagazine.com/archives/fall2004/confessions.htm|author=Gary Watkins|title=Confessions of Red Meat Survivors: Georgie Sicking|publisher=''Range Magazine''|date=Fall 2004|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref>

Georgie married Frank H. Sicking (1909-1974), a native of Muenster in Cooke County north of [[Dallas]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/Frank_H_Sicking_records.ashx?pid=108557985|title=Frank H. Sicking|publisher=records.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 31, 2014}}</ref> The two operated several ranches in Arizona, California, and [[Nevada]] before they settled down on an unimposing spread near Fallon in Churchill County  in western Nevada. There the couple reared their three children. Her poem "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" highlights the difficulty of operating a ranch without financial backing and inheritance.<ref name=elko/> Georgie described Frank as a "real cowboy" who even performed household chores while she was out riding the herd: "He was always there when the chips were down."<ref name=gawatkins>{{cite web|url=http://www.rangemagazine.com/archives/fall2004/confessions.htm|author=Gary Watkins|title=Confessions of Red Meat Survivors: Georgie Sicking|publisher=''Range Magazine''|date=Fall 2004|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref>

Sicking's [[biography]] by Glorianne Wiegand (born 1937) of Pittville, California, is entitled ''A Mare Among Geldings.''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.getcited.org/pub/100398227 |title=A Mare Among Geldings|publisher=getcited.org|page=107|ISBN=0964414147|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref> In 2004, Greg Snider and Dawn Smallman of Far Away Films produced ''Ridin' and Rhymin,''' an hour-long [[documentary]] about Sicking's life. Among her poems are "To Be a Top Hand," "Old Bay," "A Time for Remembering," "Be Yourself," and "Housewife."<ref name=gsicking/>

Sicking's [[biography]] by Glorianne Wiegand (born 1937) of Pittville, California, is entitled ''A Mare Among Geldings.''<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.getcited.org/pub/100398227 |title=A Mare Among Geldings|publisher=getcited.org|page=107|ISBN=0964414147|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref> In 2004, Greg Snider and Dawn Smallman of Far Away Films produced ''Ridin' and Rhymin,''' an hour-long [[documentary]] about Sicking's life. Among her poems are "To Be a Top Hand," "Old Bay," "A Time for Remembering," "Be Yourself," and "Housewife."<ref name=gsicking/>

In retirement, Sicking rode her horse "Monty" along the Powder River into Kaycee in Johnson County, Wyoming, where she shared many of her stories of the West of yesteryear.<ref name=gawatkins/> She said, "I know I have enjoyed the best of two worlds. I know what it is to rope a wild mustang and have him hit the end of the rope, and I know what it is to rock a baby. I think I've truly lived. ..."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/neighsayers/georgie-sicking-cowboy-poet/10150281599485782|title=Georgie Sicking, Cowboy Poet|publisher=[[Facebook]]''|accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref>

In retirement, Sicking rode her horse "Monty" along the Powder River into Kaycee in Johnson County, Wyoming, where she shared many of her stories of the West of yesteryear.<ref name=gawatkins/> She said, "I know I have enjoyed the best of two worlds. I know what it is to rope a wild mustang and have him hit the end of the rope, and I know what it is to rock a baby. I think I've truly lived. ..."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/neighsayers/georgie-sicking-cowboy-poet/10150281599485782|title=Georgie Sicking, Cowboy Poet|publisher=[[Facebook]]''|accessdate=January 10, 2022}}</ref>

==Death==

==Death==