This position comes with great power… Being a rodeo queen means having power, I’ll admit it, and you have to make a choice. You’re in a position where you can either take advantage of that power, or you can use it to do something remarkable. I know this is starting to sounds like a …
You have to be a true cowgirl to do this job. I’m not saying you have to be able to win the rodeo next weekend, have a father that you followed on the rodeo trail for 20 years, or have lived on a ranch all your life. True cowgirls, in my mind at least, only …
Real Life Rodeo Queen Secret #7. Sometimes I\’m afraid of what happens next. What happens when the crown comes off and I’m just, me? I’ve got an education and I have past work experience but will it be the same when I’m done? This is what I’ve been working towards my entire life – so …
Real Life Rodeo Queen Secret Number 6: There’s a right way and a wrong way to do “the wave”. Often the subject of jokes and criticism as seen by Corban Livingston’s hilarious interpretation, our wave is a symbol that is uniquely “Rodeo Queen”. Like many aspects of the rodeo queen world our wave is derived …
Life\’s too short for flat hair. I was recently asked by a Western Horse Review fan, “What is the deal with the hair?” She wondered why she’d never seen a queen with straight hair and why on earth do the curls have to be so big? She even joked about the greenhouse gas emissions from …
Surely at one time or another we\’ve all been sweet on the charming young gals flying around the rodeo arena in their spangled outfits and accoutrements – the princesses and queens, all curls and smiles beneath their glitzy cowboy hats. Recently, at one of our fall editorial brainstorming sessions, we wondered what the real life of …
