Born Ruby Blevins in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1908, Patsy Montana joined the Prairie Ramblers on Chicago's WLS National Barn Dance and in 1935 recorded 'I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart,' the first single by a woman in country music to sell a million copies. Her yodeling, guitar-picking cowgirl persona gave women a template for being a genre's star rather than its ornament. She kept performing and recording into the 1990s and is enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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I Want to Be a Cowboy's SweetheartPatsy Montana