Patsy Montana

<p> Born Ruby Rebecca Blevins in a log cabin nestled among the Arkansas Ozarks in 1908 Patsy Montana began her musical career performing in the 1920s with the California-based Montana Cowgirls trio. She went solo and in 1936 became the first female country and western singer to sell one million records with her self-penned I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart. Her career spanned eight decades and in 1996 (also the year of her death) she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Here is the story of a tiny blue-eyed woman who had a pioneering spirit and a big voice. Patsy Montana describes in her own words and in vivid detail her life career and success at a time in music history when women did not cut gold records gold records were not even given and <I>Billboard</I> did not even have a chart for western music.</p>