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Rodeo Queens and the American Dream. By Joan Burbick. New York: PublicAffairs, 2002. vii + 246 pp. Photographs, works consulted, index. $26.00 cloth, $9.95 paper.
Joan Burbick discusses the young women who promoted rodeos from the early 1920s until the 1990s. In the early years the person who sold the most tickets was picked as Queen. Other methods were later used to create an image of the perfect western woman.
The author writes well, especially when describing the land. But some readers will question her choice of words when she describes the rodeo more specifically.
For some people rodeo...