Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Miss Cody Rodeo Bailie Allshouse with a shameless blogger and new rodeo fan.

In Wyoming, you never know when you are going to run into a celebrity. I can tell you  this -- you can find the 2011 Miss Cody Rodeo working behind the cash register in the cafe at the Buffalo Bill Museum. How do you tell a rodeo queen cashier from the run-of-the-mill variety? Check out the belt buckle. The one Bailie Allshouse, this year's queen, sported was big, shiny, and would hold its own against anything a world-champion prize fighter might parade around the ring. Bailie told us she is up for the 2012 Miss Wyoming Rodeo title this August and was a real sport about making the busy lunch crowd wait in line while she indulged a new fan in a photo. We're rooting for her to bring the title back to Cody this summer.