Vera McGinns

She hardly even tried to describe the pain, but of course, how could she? What words are there to recount a ton of horseflesh landing on your tiny body, doing colossal damage: breaking your back in five places, busting three ribs, destroying a hip, shattering a collarbone, puncturing a lung. On her way to becoming America’s premier woman rodeo champion, Vera McGinnis had been thrown before, stepped on  before and dragged before, but even injuries permanent enough to require changes in her