The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-11
MISS WY Q MI N 6 IS IGNORED
 BY WEST

Cheyenne, Wyo-, July Il = With the announcement that the famous Miss Wyoming" has been selected as honorary chairman of the com mittee of judges to select the worlds champion all-round woman rider in the McAlpin Trophy contest at Chey- enne Frontier days during the last week in July, in which she will be the first woman thus honored in .the history of Western cowboy sports, an interesting little Inside story of. un- selfish service on behalf of the West and it's reward is revealed.
 Two years ~ago a newspaper man was sent out from New York, bring ing the design of the now famous 1919 Miss Wyoming poster, complete but for the figure of Miss Wyoming herself drawing aside the curtain which reveals the bucking broncho of the noted roundup.
 It had beep specified that none but a. real Westerp girl should pose for the Miss Wyoming figure, and the correspondent arrived, a stranger from the East, to select the model.
 A prominent Cheyenne society maid was invited to pose and refused coldly. Another was asked, and again stlother followed the lead of
 the other members of the local "480.'' | Time grew short. a dozen had been l asked, and still no model.
 Then Miss Helen Bonham was sue- gested for the part, and in her the designer found a real cowgirl, almost l the perfect type for the figure. "It | will me hard work" she was told.
 ''and others have refused to he1p,'' | but she only laughed.
 '-If it will help Frontier days and | the West I will be glad to do it," Miss BoTham replied, and for a week the maid went through the gruelitng work of posing for dozens of pictures until at last the right one-waS made. The nOSter was nnbJiched where, and Miss Bonham as Miss Wyoming" was started on the road to fame.
 Then the trip to the East as tie States messenger in delivering the Frontier days invitations to the coun- | try's notables was suggested. Now, with the prospect of meeting the President, the Mayors the Governors and being entertained as a celebrity by the greatest cities of the East, the maids who had before spurned the idea of posing and who had snub- bed the Eastern correspondent sug- gested it, all clamored to be chosen. | ''It should be some of us who are prominent" they said.
 i But Miss Bonham, as Miss wyo-
 ming" was by then not only promi- nent, she was famous. and she made who, Cinderella-1fke had risen from obscurity through her desire to help | the West, went, as all newspaper req
 ders know.
 Entertained at the White House by | President Harding, by New York
 millionaires, Mayors, Governors, the 1 country'S greatest society folk and
 women's clubs, the little western Gin derella charmed all by her gracious | ness and personality. In the mean while the girls who had "co1d shoul-
 dered'' the stranger from the East | Snashed their teeth in dismay. And now, with every cowgirl in the 1 West in the contest to win the worlds
 championship riding title at the grea1
 Frontier days sports, with the gold l silver and diamond McAlpin Trophy 1 and the attendant trip to New Yorl for it's presentation as the prize '<Mis. 1 Wyoming is again honored, and or her badge of judgeship will be tn, | inscription:
 For conspicuous service on behal | of the Vest