Short oral history with Brandi Olsen about Rodeo Pageants [Transcript and Audio]

Brandi Olsen, a former rodeo queen, describes her rodeo career from her start at five years old to becoming the Cache County Rodeo Queen in 2022. Narrator has competed across Box Elder and Cache County contests. Olsen talks about involvement in 4-H, stick horse competitions, and smaller rodeo queening contests.Narrator talks about how her parents and mentors supported her, including other rodeo queens and rodeo committees. Olsen talks about the horses she's competed with and rodeo politics. Olsen shares how the sport has changed and how she'd like to see it evolve. Narrator talks about making rodeo queen clothes and the secondhand market surrounding it. She talks about ways queens and their families try to be thrifty. Olsen explains the responsbilities associated with queening, including supporting one's attendants, other royalties, and general rodeo community. She talks about the personal and professional benefits of participating in queening. Olsen ends with a funny story involving the Cache County Rodeo flag pole.