Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West

by Renee M. Laegreid

Book Overview

When the town of Pendleton, Oregon, held its first large-scale rodeo, it introduced a new kind of rodeo queen--not a traveling cowgirl performer but a young, middle-class woman from its own town. Riding Pretty examines the history, evolution, and significance of the community-sponsored rodeo queen, from the introduction of this new phenomenon at the 1910 Pendleton Round-Up to the advent of Miss Rodeo America in 1956, and places the main theme--connection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803229550
• ISBN13: 9780803229556
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"