Look up the history of beauty pageants and you won't find Edith Mae Patterson listed as the very first Miss America. But according to a St. Louis newspaper and thousands of her admirers in 1920s and early '30s Arkansas, that she was.
Look up the history of beauty pageants and you won't find Edith Mae Patterson listed as the very first Miss America. But according to a St. Louis newspaper and thousands of her admirers in 1920s and early '30s Arkansas, that she was.