Renée M. Laegreid is an assistant professor of history at Hastings College.

"Laegreid offers an interesting case study of how some women negotiated the boundaries of gender and sometimes even race within the mythic US West."—Choice "Laegreid does a solid job of presenting the rodeo queens, often the daughters or friends of influential white families, as a force, if only briefly, in the emergence of community. . . . Riding Pretty pushes readers to consider unusual questions about western women and the choices some of them made for carving a space within the world of rodeo."—Anne M. Butler, Oregon Historical Quarterly"This book fills an important place in the growing field of rodeo studies, a subfield of western history pursued by historians, economists, cultural anthropologists, folklorists, and gender and sports studies scholars. Renee M. Laegreid has produced a well-written, well-documented history."—Michael Allen, Journal of American History

• 1. Community-Sponsored Rodeo Queens: Pendleton's First Go-Round, 1910-1917; 2. "Who Will Reign as Queen?": Community Queens Return to the Pendleton Round-Up, 1921-1929; 3. A New Kind of Community Rodeo Queen: Sponsor Girls at the Texas Cowboy Reunion; 4. Riding Pretty: The Glamour Years Begin, 1930-1941; 5. "We Like It Western!": Redefining Rodeo Queens; 6. "It Was Great Being Queen": The Postwar Era, 1944-1955; 7. All-Girl Rodeos: Challenging the Definition of Rodeo Queen; 8. From Local Community to National: Miss Rodeo America

Renée M. Laegreid is an assistant professor of history at Hastings College.

"Laegreid offers an interesting case study of how some women negotiated the boundaries of gender and sometimes even race within the mythic US West."—Choice "Laegreid does a solid job of presenting the rodeo queens, often the daughters or friends of influential white families, as a force, if only briefly, in the emergence of community. . . . Riding Pretty pushes readers to consider unusual questions about western women and the choices some of them made for carving a space within the world of rodeo."—Anne M. Butler, Oregon Historical Quarterly"This book fills an important place in the growing field of rodeo studies, a subfield of western history pursued by historians, economists, cultural anthropologists, folklorists, and gender and sports studies scholars. Renee M. Laegreid has produced a well-written, well-documented history."—Michael Allen, Journal of American History

• 1. Community-Sponsored Rodeo Queens: Pendleton's First Go-Round, 1910-1917; 2. "Who Will Reign as Queen?": Community Queens Return to the Pendleton Round-Up, 1921-1929; 3. A New Kind of Community Rodeo Queen: Sponsor Girls at the Texas Cowboy Reunion; 4. Riding Pretty: The Glamour Years Begin, 1930-1941; 5. "We Like It Western!": Redefining Rodeo Queens; 6. "It Was Great Being Queen": The Postwar Era, 1944-1955; 7. All-Girl Rodeos: Challenging the Definition of Rodeo Queen; 8. From Local Community to National: Miss Rodeo America