The belt buckle has come to represent a sort of calling card
or identity tag
and it holds up your pants.
Originally borrowed from champion boxing belts back east,
the belt buckle is a prize won at the rodeo.
Be it by bull rider, barrel racer or beauty queen.
It's a trophy you wear.
I won the 2015 Sheridan WYO Rodeo junior princess,
now I'm competing for the 2017 Sheridan WYO Rodeo princess.
I wear a belt buckle because it's something that I worked for.
It's just something that you're proud of
and so you want to show it to people.
And you go all over to other rodeos and meet all different kinds of people
and sign autographs, it's super fun.
Sometimes I feel a little bit famous.
The outfits I have to wear for the pageant:
you have to wear a dressy outfit
so that's usually like a leather, a full leather dress
with lots of crystals, that's kind of the big thing,
and kind of a more casual outfit.
My ultimate goal is to have my own collection of belt buckles
that I've won.
There are some women I guess, or girls that dress up as cowgirls
and come to the rodeos and wear belt buckles
and they usually wear them with mini skirts and cowboy boots,
which I am not saying is not cute, sometimes it does look kind of cute,
but you know many people that are cowgirls call those girls buckle bunnies.
They're there for a reason, they want to be with the cowboys.
I have heard that you want to shag the buckle bunnies and marry the barrel racers.
I won my first belt buckle I think when I was five.
As far as a count, I'm not really sure
but I've been very lucky to have won twenty to thirty or so.
I decided I wanted to be a barrel racer, you know always growing up doing rodeo
it was a part of what we did.
Barrel racing within rodeo, it allows the girls to be actually a part of
the professional rodeo.
I wear my boots, spurs and jeans every day.
These pants are actually incredible to ride in because they have a thicker denim
and they don't rip and they're actually made by cowgirls.
He walked in the room and he said my partner's here and I looked up
and he was really tanned and he actually had an earring and a cowboy hat
and a leather coat and I thought: "Oh my goodness, that's my type of cowboy."
I have won a goat tying buckle, the eight mile ladies race buckle, the queen buckle
and two team roping buckles.
I started rodeoing when I was about a junior in high school.
Never did any barrel racing because we didn't have a horse for it
so we used what we had here at the ranch.
We're running about 325 head now, of mother cows.
Total there's 20.000 acres here
that we run our Black Angus cattle on.
It's what I wanted to do all my life, run the ranch, operate the ranch.