Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American WestWhen 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