{"id":263206,"date":"2026-06-11T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263206\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:34:49","slug":"exhibit-celebrates-douglas-county-rodeo-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263206\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit celebrates Douglas County rodeo queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"story_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rodeoqueens_t670.jpeg\" alt=\"Part of the Reno Rodeo Queens of Douglas County exhibit at the Carson Valley Museum &amp; Cultural Center in Gardnerville.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n        Part of the Reno Rodeo Queens of Douglas County exhibit at the Carson Valley Museum &amp; Cultural Center in Gardnerville.<br \/>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recordcourier.com\/staff\/kurt-hildebrand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Hildebrand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In one corner of the new exhibit featuring the half-dozen Reno Rodeo Queens from Douglas County, next to a pair of red cowboy boots emblazoned with the Rodeo\u2019s logo, there\u2019s a photo of a woman astride Bertha the elephant in a parade.<\/p>\n<p>While the shadow obscures her face, it\u2019s almost certainly 1987 Rodeo Queen Natalie Prupas Pramenko.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, the daughters of two Reno Rodeo queens unveiled the exhibit at the Carson Valley Museum &amp; Cultural Center to a packed house.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins Krista Jenkins and Lisa Cordes Filbin have been working on the exhibit since they realized that Krista\u2019s mother, Myllie Cordes Hoover, and Filbin\u2019s, Betty Chism Cordes, were both queens in 1952 and 1958.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLisa and I were talking about the past, and said \u2018wouldn\u2019t it be great if we could do some type of exhibit bring awareness to how many rodeo queens have been to Douglas County.\u2019\u201d Jenkins said. \u201cWe were working on this for quite a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because McKinna Jackson was named queen in 2025, they knew there were at least three.<\/p>\n<p>During their research, they found that Jackson\u2019s grand aunt Pat Martin Rahbeck was queen in 1955, one of three queens named in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Prupas Pramenko broke a 29-year-drought when she was named in 1987. Jessica Helms Patanella was crowned in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering the items from the queens for the exhibit was a big part of the challenge, Jenkins said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne lives in Texas, and one lives in Colorado,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were \u2018can you send something,\u2019 and they were like \u2018I\u2019m so busy, I can\u2019t send something right now,\u2019\u201d but the cousins persevered and were able to fill the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy and large we got what we needed,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are happy and proud with what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Reno Rodeo opens with arrival of the annual Cattle Drive on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Visit renorodeo.com for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of the Reno Rodeo Queens of Douglas County exhibit at the Carson Valley Museum &amp; Cultural Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-263206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}