If Vera McGinnis’ love story were a Country Western song, it would go something like this: “He dragged her heart around that ring, that handsome cowboy dark and lean; but settling down was not his thing, by the time she knew, she was a Rodeo Queen.” Vera’s “undoing,” as she’d later joke, began with a crush on one handsome cowboy and ended with marriage to another. The first heartthrob was Art Acord, who showed up in Utah for Salt Lake City’s 4th of July Frontier Day Celebrati


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