Sittin' Pretty

In the early days of America and the west, kids grew up fast, working and playing hard.  Most families were traditional, with boys and girls having fairly defined roles.  But there were always the exception and they were the ones that come down to us in cowboy and cowgirl legend. 

Some girls did not take to the cooking and tending life expected of them.  They loved the outdoors, the work and most of all, the horses.  There is no stronger bond than when a girl takes to horses, and some of them became the greatest horsewoman in the west, working Wild West shows, rodeos, roundups, and showing up the men on more than one occasion. 

That was a hard plug to swallow for most men in those days, but it did not keep some pretty ladies from putting on a riding skirt, high heeled boots, and a pair of spurs and peelin’ the hide off an outlaw bronc.  When a pretty young lady rode one it was a thing of beauty, the harder he bucked and the better she rode the prettier she got, she was truly “Sittin’ Pretty”. 

The inspiration for this sculpture came from my wife who sets a horse real pretty, but I made it for all horsewomen, and all the men who love them.

Steve Miller