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'''Margaret Clark Formby''' (July 12, 1929 – April 10, 2003),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 20, 2009; under pay wall}}</ref> was the daughter of southwest [[Texas]] ranchers who founded the '''National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowgirl.net/|title=Home - Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|publisher=Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|language=en-US|access_date=26 April 2017}}</ref> in the basement of the public library in Hereford in Deaf Smith County, Texas, before she relocated the collection to [[Fort Worth]].<ref name=margaret>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=April 20, 2003|accessdate=December 20, 2009}}</ref>
'''Margaret Clark Formby''' (July 12, 1929 – April 10, 2003),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 20, 2009; under pay wall}}</ref> was the daughter of southwest [[Texas]] ranchers who founded the '''National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowgirl.net/|title=Home - Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|publisher=Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|language=en-US|access_date=26 April 2017}}</ref> in the basement of the public library in Hereford in Deaf Smith County, Texas, before she relocated the collection to [[Fort Worth]].<ref name=margaret>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=April 20, 2003|accessdate=December 20, 2009}}</ref>
==Biographical sketch==
==Background==
Formby was born to Fred and Mabel Clark in Van Horn in Culberson County east of [[El Paso]].<ref name=bmi/> She once described her upbringing as "growing up western," and she fought to recognize women for their influence in western culture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Formby - Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|url=http://www.cowgirl.net/portfolios/margaret-formby/|website=Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|accessdate=26 April 2017}}</ref> She graduated second in her class in 1946 from Van Horn High School.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/potter/obits/2003/041303.txt|title=Margaret Formby obituary|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|date=April 13, 2003|accessdate=December 21, 2009}}</ref>
Formby was born to Fred and Mabel Clark in Van Horn in Culberson County east of [[El Paso]].<ref name=bmi/> She once described her upbringing as "growing up western," and she fought to recognize women for their influence in western culture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Formby - Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|url=http://www.cowgirl.net/portfolios/margaret-formby/|website=Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|accessdate=26 April 2017}}</ref> She graduated second in her class in 1946 from Van Horn High School.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/potter/obits/2003/041303.txt|title=Margaret Formby obituary|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|date=April 13, 2003|accessdate=December 21, 2009}}</ref>
==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>
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>