Roberta Brass Garrettson is one of the five new profiles in the award-winning exhibit, “How in the World Did You Get to Sun Valley?” at the Wood River museum of History & Culture in Ketchum. The exhibit features 10 rotating profiles of individuals who found their way to this hard-to-get-to-place.
Roberta was just a baby when her family moved from the sagebrush town of Caldwell in southwest Idaho to the Brass Ranch between the Pioneer and Smoky Mountains around Ketchum. On the mountain ranch, she fell in love with horses and became a skilled rider.
Roberta was the first “Queen of the Sun Valley Rodeo” and represented Sun Valley on the national rodeo circuit, from the Pendleton Roundup to Madison Square Garden.
In 1936, when she was 23, Union Pacific Railroad purchased the Brass Ranch as the foundation for the Sun Valley Resort.
More here about the How in the World Did You Get to Sun Valley? exhibit.
