Trick Riding
After her recovery from surgery, Gibson's popularity as a lead had waned. In September 1921 an independent company hired her for a 5-reeler and folded without paying the cast or crew. Riding in the picture put Gibson back in the hospital, forcing her to sell her furniture, jewelry and car. She made personal appearances in connection with bookings of No Man's Woman and |The Wolverine in theatres and at rodeos, including visiting her old friends at the 101 Ranch in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
In the spring of 1924 Gibson got a job trick riding with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' Wild West show along with other cowboy performers such as Ken Maynard, and performed in their 'after show' for two-and-a-half years. In September 1926 Gibson joined a Hopi Indian act and worked the Keith Vaudeville Circuit out of Boston.
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