TY - BOOK ID - 77866626 TI - Riding pretty : rodeo royalty in the American West PY - 2006 SN - 1280550805 9786610550807 080325718X 9780803257184 PB - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women rodeo performers KW - Cowgirls KW - Rodeos KW - Rodeo events KW - Contests KW - Exhibitions KW - Cattle herders KW - Horsemen and horsewomen KW - Women animal specialists KW - Rodeo performers KW - Women entertainers KW - Women in rodeos KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866626 AB - 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. This work examines the history, evolution, and significance of the community-sponsored rodeo queen. ER -