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Renée M. Laegreid is a professor of history at the University of Wyoming.¿She is the author of Riding Pretty: Rodeo Queens in the American West (Nebraska, 2006) and the coauthor, with Sandra K. Mathews, of Women’s Experiences on the North American Plains. Shannon D. Smith is the executive director for the Wyoming Humanities Council and an author focusing on women in the West. She is the author of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the F...

In 1910 when the town of Pendleton, Oregon, held its first large-scale rodeo, the Pendleton Round-Up, 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 ...