Hall of Fame Rodeo Star. She ran away from her convent school at age 14 and married Paul Raymond "Mike" Hastings, a famous rodeo bulldogger who taught her the "ropes" of the rodeo world. She began her rodeo career competing on bucking horses and in trick riding matches. She dropped the name Eloise and became Fox Hastings, which the press loved. Outside the rodeo world she couldn't vote, but inside she was almost an equal to the men. Women in rodeo were the first professional athletes and earned far more money than contemporary professional women. But cowgirls were not cowboys and they were forced to compete for smaller purses. In 1924, when they asked to compete in the men only events at Pendleton and be eligible for the All Round Cowboy Award, they were promptly denied. The year 1924 was also when she made her debut as a bulldogger and set a record of 12 seconds. She and her husband gained fame as husband and wife bulldoggers, but her manager, Foghorn Clancy, is credited as being most responsible for her fame. Mary LeCompte, in her 1993 book, Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneer Professional Athletes said, "He made her the most photographed and interviewed cowgirl of the late twenties." She was a contract performer, so her expenses were paid and she kept all her prize money, but she also had to perform regardless of injuries. She was known to bulldog a big steer the day after she had broken a rib. In 1987, she was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, which noted her career had included steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, and rodeo trick riding. Her life outside the rodeo was not quite as smooth and successful as her rodeo career; her marriage to Mike ended and she married Charlie E Wilson, another noted rodeo performer. They settled down to work on a ranch outside Winslow, Arizona. Her life ended tragically. On July 30, 1948, Charlie died in Winslow of a heart attack. Two weeks later, in the Adams Hotel in Phoenix, she took her own life. The coroner's report states she died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the abdomen and to the head. She left a note, saying, "I don't want to live without my husband." She was just 50 years old. Her remains were cremated and her ashes were interred at Phoenix's Greenwood Cemetery.