Nan Aspinwall, Entertainer
Nan Aspinwall
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Nan Jeanne Aspinwall Gable Lambell was born in New York in
1880. She lived in Liberty, Nebraska, for most of her early
years, although in later publicity she would claim to have been
raised on a cattle ranch in Montana. By 1899 Nan was performing
as "Princess Omene," an oriental dancer. Sometime in
1905 0r 1906, she began appearing as the "Montana Girl,"
an expert horsewoman, sharpshooter, and lariatist and by 1906
she was billed along with husband Frank Gable as a "Lariat
Expert." They performed with the combined Buffalo Bill's
Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East Troupe and later she and
Frank had their own vaudeville show, Gable's Novelty Show, until
Frank's death in 1909. Nan died in 1964.
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Photographs and mementos of Nan Aspinwall's
career as an oriental dancer, a sharpshooter, and a vaudeville
act fill six scrapbooks in the
collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society. The girl
who, on a bet from Buffalo Bill, rode horseback from San Francisco
to New York and back in 1911, led a colorful life that produced
no shortage of material to fill these volumes.
Lariat used by Nan Aspinwall in her Wild West and vaudeville acts.
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