Made in the image of Pete

A great-great-granddaughter of the original Pistol Pete, Frank Eaton, Amanda Fitzgerald has always lived on Payne County soil. Her family is deeply Payne County - she also claims ancestors from the Duck family, who donated the land on which both Old Central and Theta Pond sit, providing a place for students to learn and their horses to water in the early days of Oklahoma A&M.

Today she is attending Oklahoma State University in the grand tradition of her family’s legacy.

Amanda chose the Gateway Program, a path that allows students to transition from NOC Stillwater to OSU, and transferred to OSU to continue her studies here. Transfer students like Amanda from all over the state and nation find a successful home at OSU to Finish Orange.

Amanda is passionate about becoming a veterinarian. Her special passion is her nonprofit dedicated to rescuing abused or neglected horses. She travels far and wide to pick up animals that have been overbred or neglected by their current owners, and rehabilitate them on her ranch in Perkins for rehoming with new owners.

She is working on a degree in animal science with a pre-vet curriculum and hopes to attend Oklahoma State University’s Veterinary School. That’s how we build cowboys.

WE ARE ALL COWBOYSHailing from all 50 states and 98 countries, we are united by the Cowboy Code.

We end the day knowing we gave it everything we had
We dream only as big as the sky
We know challenges come with pain, but pain will not win
We have a passion to do what's right, even when it's hard

We stand for what matters, even if we stand alone
We finish what we start
Being a Cowboy isn't in our clothes, it's in our character

A Cowboy, Without Question

Made in the image of Pete

WE ARE ALL COWBOYSHailing from all 50 states and 98 countries, we are united by the Cowboy Code.