Mulhall, Okla., (AP)-
On a small Oklahoma ranch, remnant of a once magnificent 80,000 acre estate, Lucille Mulhall, the "original cowgirl," has been left to carry on, almost alone, the traditions of the old, romantic west.

She is the daughter of Col. Zach Mulhall, whose recent death severed one of the few remaining links with Oklahoma's glamorous yesterdays.

Ranch-born and reared, she became so expert at riding and roping that while still a little girl she helped her father and brothers manage their vast holdings.

Colonel Zach, who promised his 7-year-old daughter all the calves she could rope and brand herself, soon realized his mistake and begged off his bargain.

Twenty-five years ago she won a world championship at tying wild steers.

President Roosevelt called her the best woman rider then in the saddle, and it was at his suggestion that Colonel Zach put her on the stage.

Tours of the United States and later of many foreign countries followed for the "AQueen of the Plains."

Tom Mix and Will Rogers once roped calves and tended branding fires on the old Mulhall homestead, and many important visitors to the southwest made the ranch their headquarters.

Lucile Mulhall returning with her father to Oklahoma when her trouping days were over, found a changed order.

Pastures were fenced in, signboards and filling stations lined newly-laid highways and every-where wasa evidence of the rule of the monarch "oil," that had come to supplant cattle.

Motor cars were routing broncos - except in the "carriage house" at Mulhall's where Eddie C., the wonder horse, was stabled to pass his declining years.

The big white horse is still there, pride of the Cimarron country. Colonel Zach paid $1000 for Eddie C. and refused three times the amount.

"Something fine has passed with the old life," the "original cowgirl" says. "This new day is probably fine, too, but I loved the unfenced range and the open prairie and the boundless friendliness of the cattle country."

Eddie C., could he speak, probably would agree.