Miss Frontier History Flashcards
How was the first Miss Frontier chosen?
During the Depression years, as Rodeo attendance waned, local businesses sold tickets to name a Rodeo queen as a goodwill ambassador
What group chose the first Miss Frontier?
American Legion Post 6
How was it determined which group/business would pick the first Miss Frontier?
Whoever sold the most tickets
Who was the first Miss Frontier?
Jean Nimmo Dubois
Who was the First Lady-in-waiting?
Patricia Keefe
When was a process instituted to select future Miss Frontiers?
1934
Future Miss Frontiers came from…
College aged daughters of pioneer families or those closely associated with the Rodeo
(Used to be this way)
Current candidates for Miss Frontiers are chosen…
Through an interview process.
What group chose the first Mis Lady in Waiting?
Kiwanis
What year was the first Miss Frontier?
1931
What did Sally Rand do? When?
In 1935, Sally Rand suggested Miss Frontier and her Lady in waiting began wearing white silk shirts with the bucking horse emblem on the sleeve and a white buckskin divided skirt
Who sponsored the coronation ball?
The military
What is the official emblem on Miss Frontier and Lady in Waiting’s shirt?
A bucking horse inside the arrow head
