Riding pretty rodeo royalty in the American West
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 com...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
2006.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Women in the West. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31815844*spi |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | x, 273 p. : il., mapas |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 261-269) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9780803257184 |