Rosanna Bean, The pride of Montrose and the town's spirited rodeo queen, wasn't quite sure what to make of the competition that was going on at the 1938 Colorado State Fair. "They didn't tell me until I showed up that it was the Miss Colorado Pageant. I didn't have any talent prepared; I wasn't sure I even belonged there. But since I was already there, I figured 'What The Heck?' And darned if I didn't win."

Rosanna Bean won the first Miss Colorado Crown (although, at the time, there was no crown).