Miranda Lambert has been a force in country music since 2005, when her major label debut album, Kerosene, went Platinum. Since then, she was won multiple ACM and CMA awards, along with three Grammys!

Bernice Ende could have made the 1,200-mile trip from her home in Trego, Mont. to Minnesota for her nephew’s August Waconia wedding in any number of ways. She could have flown. She could ...