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    8/7

Dennis Gaines photo by Jeri Dobrowski    www.jeridobrowski.com    Newest:  Dennis Gaines' A Cowboy for the Cure Tour"; B. J. Rickard's The World of Horses;Jonah by Andy Nelson and Nikki Mann; Western Folklife Center Ranch Rhymes podcast;  A Prairie Home Companion; Western Way on the web; Wylie Gustafson, Western Horseman cover story; I.M. Cowgirl; RATTLE deadline; Reports from the National Folk Festival;  American Cowboy "Tribute to Cowboy Legends"; Rod Miller in the Salt Lake Tribune; Will Rogers Medallion Award winners; Red Steagall among "Top 15 Cowboys" in Cowboys & Indians magazine; The Ranching Way of Life DVD; Randy Rieman in Western Horseman; Rod Miller's Massacre At Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten; Prix de West; Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival; and many more news items...

 

Features   8/4       

   Newest: Picture the West; Jeri Dobrowski's Cowboy Jam Session; Before the Song; Rick Huff's Western Air; Rope Burns' cowboy poetry column; Weigh in on the economy; Sharlot Hall; an open letter from Carole Jarvis about the lack of poetry in Western publications; Rick Huff reviews;  Patty Clayton; Performer Directory; Open Range; Rod Miller's "Free Range and Barbwire"; and much more ...

 

Join With Others in Supporting the BAR-D    8/7

  Your support is essential to CowboyPoetry.com.  Be an important part of CowboyPoetry.com, Cowboy Poetry Week, the Rural Library Project, and all of the activities of the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry.

Get the 2008 Cowboy Poetry Week poster, available exclusively to supporters, and other benefits. Read about support levels and benefits.  Visit our Wall of Support, read comments from other supporters, and read about the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry...

 

 The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three  news updated  8/6

  The BAR-D Roundup News Cowboy Culture Corner; The Western Hour; Clear Out West (C.O W.); Western Way charts; Calling All Cowboys; Radio Ranch; Cowboy Magazine review; Radio Ranch; Joe Baker's Backforty Roundup; Rick Huff's review; and more ...

The 2008, third-annual compilation CD  includes tracks by Robert Service, Red Steagall, Wallace McRae, Paul Zarzyski, Randy Rieman, Ross Knox, Jerry Brooks, Buck Ramsey, Joel Nelson, Ken Cook, Doris Daley, DW Groethe, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Paul Kern, Linda Kirkpatrick, Deanna Dickinson McCall, Andy Nelson, Susan Parker, Pat Richardson, Georgie Sicking, Bill Siems, Jay Snider, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns, Hal Swift, Mick Vernon, and Smoke Wade.

 

Western and Cowboy Poems and Songs: New, Old, and Classic   8/5

  S. Omar Barker, Jay Snider, Alf Bilton, and George Russell. Previously: Allen McCandless, Al Mehl, Doug Brewer, Paul Kern, Hal Swift, Michael Henley, V. June Blevins Collins, Buzz Helfert, Robert V. Carr, Mike Puhallo,John R. Yaws, Al Mehl, Diane Tribitt, Lawrence Swearingen, Patti Leininger, Pat Stephenson, Bruce Kiskaddon, Jody Fergerstrom, Mike Puhallo, Jay Snider, Sam DeLeeuw, Buck Ramsey, Stuart Hooker, Kip Sorlie, Tex Tumbleweed, Jim Ross, Tom Nichols, Robert Boyle, and C.W. (Charles) Bell, Sharlot Hall, Mike Puhallo, Sam Jackson, and poems and lyrics for the Fourth of July from DW Groethe, RW Hampton, Yvonne Hollebeck, Chris Isaacs, Hal Swift, and the late Rod Nichols Daniel Bybee, Janie Lee Moor, Slim McNaught, Jerry Schleicher, Mag Mawhinney, Jack Horan, Doris Daley. Mike Puhallo, Ed Nesselhuf, Verlin Pitt, Byrl Keith Chadwell, Dave P. Fisher, and many more ...

 

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Event Announcements   8/4
                       See the complete Events calendar here

 Newest:  African American Western Experience (September);  Grand Union Gathering update (October);...

...Seventh Annual Spirit of the West Festival (September); (Special "Stay-at-Home" Benefits on Clear Out West (C.O.W.) Radio (ongoing); Riding 4 the Brand Cowboy Poetry Gathering (November); An Afternoon of Cowboy Poetry (August); 9th Annual Saddle Up! Celebration (February); Diamond Mountain Cowboy Poetry, Music and BBQ (October); Cowboy Poetry/Cowboy Music Salute to Wagon Days (August); Shingletown Wild Horse Sanctuary Open House (August); 3rd Annual Pinedale Cowboy Roundup (October); "Sweethearts in Carhartts" Martin Matinee (October); Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and Western Art and Gear Show (December); Cheyenne Heart of the West Festival (August); Fifth Annual Lee Earl  Memorial Scholarship Cowboy Gathering (March 2009); Jack Thorp anniversary concerts update (September-October); National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration (September); 21st Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering update (August);  Mavericks (December); Voleta Hummel's Cowboy and Western Music Events Calendar (through April, 2009); Heber City’s Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair (November); Dollarwatch Cowboy Jamboree (September); WMA California (through November);  16th Annual Stony Plain Gathering (August); North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo (August); Williams Lake Cowboy Christmas (November); Cowboy Christmas Concert (December); Cowboy Campfire at Scofield's Red Mule Ranch (through September); Emerald Valley Opry (Monthly);  and many more ...

 

Gathering and Event Reports   8/7              

Newest: Fourth Annual Coast Fork Cowboy Festival; 21st Annual California Rodeo Cowboy Poetry Gathering, "Cowboys & Cabernet"; 7th Annual Willow Creek Gathering; 22nd Annual Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering; 21st Annual Pincher Creek Cowboy Poetry Gathering; 3rd Annual Canadian Rockies Cowboy Festival; Annual Columbia River Cowboy Gathering; Second Annual Cowboy Poetry Hootenanny; First Annual Utah, Arizona, Nevada (& Neighbors) Cowboy Poetry Gathering & "Old Timers" Get Together; First  Annual Golden Spike Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival; Touchet Valley Cowboy Poetry Week wrap-up; Grass Valley Elks Cowboy Poetry; 10th Annual Missouri Cowboy Poetry Gathering; and many more..

 

Looking for: Poets and Poetry, Musicians, Artists, and...   8/7      

Dennis Gaines photo by Jeri Dobrowski    www.jeridobrowski.com Newest: Dennis Gaines' "Cowboy for the Cure Tour"; Around the Campfire with Ed and Terry; Moorcroft, Wyoming Riding 4 the Brand Cowboy Poetry Gathering; Western Music Association My Space audio and video; Tioga's Western Trade Days seeks poets, storytellers, and musicians; Arizona poets;  Ralph's Back PorchCalling All Cowboys radio; BAR-D Directory of Poets and Musicians updated; Michael Martin Murphey seeks photographs; I.M. Cowgirl seeks submissions; Ron Hauser, Missouri Western culture festival; and many more.....


 


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Picture the West
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           Weekly: Your photos, old and new, of the ranching, cowboy, and rural and working life of the West.

 

  Wyoming views from Nikki Mann

Index of past weeks' photos

Previous weeks: Paul Kern's tribute to Utah rancher Joe Mascaro; Smoke Wade's vintage photos and recollections around log troughs;  Views from Diane Tribitt's Minnesota ranch; Californian Susan Parker's photos of Bodie; A vintage Fourth of July photo from Jeri Dobrowski; Arizonan Lori Faith Merritt's mustang photos; Wyoming's Jean Mathisen Haugen's family stories and Western history; Oregon's Byrl Keith Chadwell's Eastern Oregon pack trip; Oklahoman Janice Chapman's family of horses; Wyoming's Andy Nelson's three generations of farriers; Alberta's Bryan Smith shares photos of the backcountry in Banff National Park; a special Memorial Day tribute in memory of Cpl. Josiah Hollopeter to all who have given their lives in military service; Wyoming rancher and photographer Nicky Groenewold: coyotes and cows; Oklahoma rancher and poet Jay Snider's ranger-detective grandfather; New Mexico poet, songwriter, and cowboy Mike Moutoux's photos of his country; and many, many more...

 

Directory of Poets and Musicians  

Take part in a free directory of poets and musicians...

 


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Poets, Musicians, and Others in the News in Print, on the Web, & Beyond  8/6

  Newest: Hal Swift; Rodney Nelson; Jeri Dobrowksi, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns, Jan Swan Wood, and Robert Dennis in Tri-State Livestock News Fall Horse Roundup; Dave P. Fisher; Charles M. Russell paintings; Absaroka article; Jerry Schleicher; Mike Puhallo; Jeff Streeby; Hal Swift; Dave P. Fisher; Linda Kirkpatrick; Yvonne Hollenbeck; Juni Fisher; Rodney Nelson; Jerry Schleicher; Jim Thompson; Harold Roy Miller; Andy Nelson; new WMA web site; Doris Daley; RW Hampton, Mike Beck, Dave Stamey and others in Cowboys & Indians; Jo Lynne Kirkwood; Jeri Dobrowski, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns in Ag Pride; and many more...

 

Western Radio and Podcast News    8/7

 Around the Campfire with Ed and Terry; Brenn Hill on What's in a Song; Western Folklife Center's Ranch Rhymes; A Prairie Home Companion; Marvin O'Dell's DJ contact list; Joe Baker's Backforty Roundup; Ken Overcast's The Cowboy Show newsletter; Poetry on B. J. Rickard's The World of Horses 13; Clear Out West (C.O.W.)  Special "Stay-at-Home" benefits, updated; Rick Huff's Western Air; Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse newsletter; Radio Ranch; Dave Stamey on Calling All Cowboys; Radio Ranch; Ralph's Back Porch Live365 show; Jerry Brooks on Ranch Rhymes; Belinda Gail audio postcard with Ken Overcast;  Yvonne Hollenbeck, Rodney Nelson, and Randy Rieman on Ranch Rhymes; Ralph's Back Porch; Calling All Cowboys; and more ...

 

New Cowboy and Western Poetry & Music Releases and New Releases' News   8/4

  Newest: J.D. Seibert's Cowboy Poetry CD;  Jonah by Andy Nelson and Nikki Mann; Al Mehl's I'd Rather Be...; Mike Moutoux's Spirits Still Remain CD; Linda Kirkpatrick's latest Somewhere in the West chapbook; Jerry Schleicher's The Missouri Matador CD; Ray Owens' Tracks That Won't Blow Out; Janice Gilbertson's Sometimes, in the Lucias; Kerry Grombacher's It Sings in the Hi-Line; Golden Spike Festival compilation CD; Ray Doyle's The Emigrant Trail; Mag Mawhinney's Passin' it On CD; and many more ...

 

Other Books, Recordings, Publications of Western Interest    8/6

 Newest:  Joan Stauffer's Behind Every Man, the Story of Nancy Cooper Russell; Willard Wyman's High Country; Best of Covered Wagon Women; The Ranching Way of Life DVD; Rod Miller's Massacre At Bear River: First, Worst, Forgotten; Echo Klaproth's Words Turn Silhouette and Scattered, Lasting Remnants; Horses That Buck; Andy and the Albino Horse; Molly the Pony; Hank Snow's Tales of the Yukon CD; and more...

 

In Western Publications (with cowboy poetry and related news and features)      

 Newest:   The Western Way, Western Horseman, I.M. Cowgirl, American Cowboy, Rope Burns, Cowboy Magazine, Range,  Country Western Gazette, and more...

 

Awards News      

Newest: Will Rogers Medallion Award winners; Spur Awards; Wrangler Awards; and more...

 

Good News    

Weddings, anniversaries, babies, foals, awards ... news of our community...send us yours...

Newest:  Rusty Garrett Snider born June 24, 2008;  Sam DeLeeuw retires; Brice takes six scholarship awards;Track stars Dylan and Neal Nelson; Georgie Sicking's birthday; Charlie Mitchell Dunn, born May 5, 2008; The Sniders' newest bullrider; Joe and Theresa Dobrowski celebrate 75 years of marriage; Clairee Louise Bingham, born April 11, 2008; Jane Morton's poetry/family history connection; and more...

 

In Our Thoughts   8/6 

In Our Thoughts Tim Johnson  update; Ebert family; Georgie Sicking, recuperating; Howard Higgins updated; Charles Williams; and other news...

Never Forgotten Message from Belinda Gail; Frederic Fridborg, 1947-2008; Jane Richardson, 1935-2008, updated; Terry Brown, died June 28, 2008; William (Jack) Stuart 1926-2008; Howard Staub, 1940-2008, updated; Rod Nichols, 1942-2007 memorial addition; Raymond Austby, 1921-2008; Henry Benson (1946-2008) tributes; and others...

 


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Who Knows?                             

Questions with and without answers.  Seeking poems, their authors, and more ...maybe you can help?

 

  Art Spur   

Art inspires poetry.  Featuring "Learnin' the Ropes," a photograph by Wyoming rancher and photographer Chanda Snook, in celebration of the National Day of the Cowboy (July 26, 2008). Selected poems are by Al Mehl, Diane Tribitt, Lawrence Swearingen, and Patti Leininger. Read the poems and more about the photo here.

The previous Art Spur featured "Waxed Jacket," by William Matthews, the subject of our 2008 Cowboy Poetry Week poster. Selected poems are by Ken Cook, Diane Tribitt, Al Mehl, Glen Enloe, Jerry Schleicher, Michael Henley, Merv Webster, and Clark Crouch.  

 

Western Memories                          

Ranch histories and Western recollections.  Share your stories...

Newest: Smoke Wade's "The Log Trough"; Jean Mathisen Haugen's "Great-Great Grandpa Gambled—With a Ranch and a Daughter"; Smoke Wade's "1952 Hashknife Branding"; Smoke Wade's "The Joseph Creek School House"; Bruce Matley's "The Matley Ranch"The Ranch That I Can't See";  Jean Mathisen Haugen's "Saga of the Old NC Brand Continues for 123 Years"

 

The Wider Range (General Poetry Topics)    8/7

  Newest:   Past United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry; Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now) Emmy nomination; Kay Ryan named U.S. Poet Laureate; Poetry Out Loud winners; Gary Snyder wins Lilly Prize; Poetry Everywhere; Poetry Foundation/HBO poetry show; Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships; and more ...

See a complete list of features at the BAR-D here.

 

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  Popular cowboy poet, storyteller, and former working cowboy Dennis Gaines is mounting "A Cowboy for the Cure Tour," which he hopes to take to every county in Texas (all 254). Dennis has faced several serious cancer battles in recent years. True to his wise and positive spirit, he's combining educational and entertaining efforts in this planned tour.

Though Dennis has kept his challenges mostly to himself in the past, he writes that after his third diagnosis, "... one day it occurred to me that this whole issue is bigger than I am, and perhaps I should heed the message...I made the conscious decision to pursue this goal, and I believe it to be a worthy one...I am looking at this as a grand adventure and a chance to do something truly worthwhile with my life. I hope that I will be able to raise a significant amount of money and at the same time help people to understand that cancer does not have to be a death sentence. My mantra, as it were—and I have made it my motto to take on the road with me—is simple: "Find it, treat it. Fight it, beat it."

If you can help with "A Cowboy for the Cure Tour," particularly in arranging venues or promotion, contact Dennis at (830) 896-5598 or by email.

An August, 2008 article by Carlina Villalpando in the Kerrville Daily Times tells Dennis Gaines' story. Read the article and more in our feature here.

[Photo of Dennis Gaines at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, 2007, by Jeri Dobrowski]

Thanks to Linda Kirkpatrick for help with this feature.

Posted 8/7


 Horse expert B.J. Rickard's The World of Horses radio show airs live on the internet on Sunday evenings, 8-10 PM Central. Each show includes a regular cowboy poetry segment, featuring live interviews and poetry by poets from CowboyPoetry.com. The long-running radio show, which made its internet debut on July 13, 2008, has featured Jay Snider, Carole Jarvis, Susan Parker, and Ken Cook.

The World of Horses, with a 9-year broadcast history, covers a variety of aspects of horse ownership and care, and includes live segments with other horse professionals and listeners' calls and emails.

Read more in our feature here.

After the live broadcast, each weekly show is available on demand from The World of Horses web site and from its partner, I.M. Cowgirl's web site.

Posted 8/6


  Popular Utah singer and songwriter Brenn Hill and his song, "Debt," was featured on What's in a Song, August 3, on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday. The occasional NPR radio series is produced in collaboration with the Western Folklife Center. From the Western Folklife Center announcement:

It's rare these days to tune in to the news on the radio and not hear reports on the sputtering economy, rising fuel prices and people struggling to make ends meet. And if you decide you need a break from bad news, don't tune in to your country music station, because you may hear the same story all over again. In this week's What's in a Song we hear from Utah cowboy
singer Brenn Hill with his song "Debt," written after seeing his friends being dragged down by debt.

Other Western songwriters who have been featured on What's in a Song include Mike Beck, Curly Musgrave, and Michael Martin Murphey. Find previous What's in a Song broadcasts here at the NPR web site.

Listen to the Brenn Hill segment and the entire song here on the NPR web site. The program is also available at the Western Folklife Center web site.

Updated 8/4


  Jonah, a collaboration between cowboy poet Andy Nelson and photographer Nikki Mann, offers readers a vast and engaging perspective on a part of the American working West—a place where the past and present converge in a microcosm of pertinencethrough impressive and complementary images and words. The Jonah Infill Drilling Project, taking its name from geographic features (Jonah Gulch, Jonah Ridge, and Jonah Reservoir), is natural gas drilling site in south-central Sublette County, Wyoming. From the book's description:

From cowboy poet Andy Nelson and photographer Nikki Mann comes a unique look into a small section of desert in western Wyoming called the Jonah Field. Jonah documents an area where wildlife, ranching, history and industry all come together. Sometimes they coexist in peace, sometimes they don't; sometimes one aspect benefits another, and sometimes it doesn't.

Jonah is a stunning photographic chronicle of an ever-changing landscape and a poignant poetic insight to an ever-changing heritage.

Nikki Mannphotographer, journalist, horsepacker, farrier, and field biologist writes that "The idea for this book began while driving one of the hundreds of roads in Jonah. I looked in my rearview mirror and saw a cowboy come riding up from behind the truck. He was looking for some lost cows, in the same manner that cowboys have been looking for lost cows in Jonah and the surrounding landscape for generations...Jonah was once a sea where Alligatoroids swam 40 million years ago. It was a place where prehistoric people hunted with arrowheads, where cattle roamed without fences and is now where natural gas is drilled from beneath the surface to heat homes around the West."

In addition to its photography and poetry, the book includes historic and geographic information, a "roughneck glossary," and a "cowboy dictionary."

Find order information here, along with poetry by Andy Nelson.

Posted 7/31



The newest Ranch Rhymes: Cowboy Poetry and Music from the Western Folklife Center Archives podcast features California poet, teacher, and former cowboy Ed Brown. The program is described, "Cowboy poet and all-around funny man Ed Brown shares two good ones about finding one's muse in cowboy poetry and music."

The Ranch Rhymes recordings, presented by Ross Fuqua, are drawn from the Western Folklife Center Archives. The broadcasts are available on demand for listening on the web or for downloading as podcasts.

Other recent Ranch Rhymes programs feature Utah reciter Jerry Brooks, North Dakota rancher and poet Rodney Nelson, South Dakota ranch wife and poet Yvonne Hollenbeck, and master reciter and respected Randy Rieman; California rancher and poet John Dofflemyer; Montana rancher, writer and poet Wallace McRae; respected cowboy troubadour and music historian Don Edwards; Australian bush poet Milton Taylor and Washington poet Dick Warwick; Utah poet Jo Lynne Kirkwood; Montana ranch hand, singer, songwriter, and poet DW Groethe; the late cowboy, poet, and reciter Sunny Hancock and others.

Find all of the Ranch Rhymes programs here at the Western Folklife Center web site.

Posted 7/28


  The complete Western Way magazine, the official publication of the Western Music Association (WMA), is now available to all for reading on line, at the WMA web site.

(Read about what's in the current issue here.)

Posted 7/25


    The August, 2008 issue of Western Horseman features Wylie Gustafson of Wylie & the Wild West in a photo-filled feature-length cover story, "Wylie's Wild West" by Senior Editor Ross Hecox. Concentrating equally on Wylie's music career and his ranch life and cutting horse activities, the article takes a close look at what's important to Wylie. Commenting on his music, he is quoted, "I want to take cowboy music into a new generation...I want kids growing up on ranches to like our music."

Editor A.J. Mangum remarked on the cover photo in the Western Horseman newsletter: "It would've been easier—safer, certainly—to run a conservative portrait of Wylie in his necktie and button-down shirt, standing on terra firma, strumming his guitar and singing to the camera. But the 'safe' approach just wouldn't be ... well, it wouldn't be Wylie...balancing atop his cutting horse—'Captain Beefheart'—while playing guitar, singing and dancing ... not a big deal for Wylie..." 

The Western Horseman web site has an "on-line exclusive" slide show "featuring some of the charismatic cowboy's musical talents."

Read more about what's in the August, 2008 issue here and visit the Western Horseman web site for more.

Visit Wylie's web site for photos from the Western Horseman article (and others) and for and much more about Wylie and the band.

[photo of Wylie Gustafson, by Jeri Dobrowski; see her gallery of western performers and others here.]

updated 7/25


    Two new CowboyPoetry.com information postcards are available.

One card features William Matthews' painting, "Waxed Jacket," chosen as the image for the 2008 Cowboy Poetry Week poster and the other is the image selected as the cover for the 2008 CD, The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three, (a photo of Perry Preston ("P. P.") Dickinson, circa 1912, Texas cowboy. Perry Preston was the grandfather of Deanna Dickinson McCall, and great grandfather of poets and reciters Rusty McCall and Katie-McCall Owens.

The reverse sides of the postcards have information about the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry and CowboyPoetry.com. The cards are sent to gathering organizers for events' handout tables, placed at libraries, bookstores, and community centers.

Thanks to the following gatherings, organizations, and individuals for helping to spread the word by making CowboyPoetry.com information cards available to date and for providing space for them:

The Heritage of the American West show; the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Saddle Up! in Pigeon Forge, Sierra Vista's Cochise Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, Wyoming Wintercamp Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Chadron State College Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Red Rock Writers, Montana Cowboy and Ranchwomen Dinner Show, Montana Country Poets and Pickers Annual Gathering, Festival of the West, Alpine Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, Nara Visa Cowboy Gathering, National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo, Kamloops Cowboy Gathering, Estes Park Cowboy Poetry and Music Round-Up, Wyoming's Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering, Lee Earl Memorial Scholarship Gathering, Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry and Songs, Kane County Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Dollarwatch Cowboy Show, Gila Valley Poets Spring Gathering, Idaho City Gathering, Booth Western Art Museum, Los Rios Rancho and Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department, Cowboy Culture Corner, Truckee Western Week and ProRodeo Cowboy Poetry and Music, Conifer Trails and Tales, Triple Creek Ranch, Eldorado Running of the Bull, Oklahoma Centennial Covered Wagon Rendezvous, Annual Reno Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, Friends of Marty Robbins, Southwestern Idaho Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Visalia Fall Roundup, Annual Grand Union Gathering, Badger Clark Hometown Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, Old West Days, Pinedale Roundup, Grand Junction Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Grass Valley Elks' Cowboy Poetry, Annual Gila River Heritage Round-Up, Cowboy Poetry Hootenanny, Spirit of the West, Annual Bosque County Chuckwagon Cookoff & John A. Lomax Music Festival, Annual Stony Plain Cowboy Poetry, Music & Art Gathering, and First Annual Utah, Arizona, Nevada (& Neighbors) Cowboy Poetry Gathering & "Old Timers" Get Together, First Annual Golden Spike Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, Annual Missouri Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Boys Town Nevada, Songs, Stories, and Cowboy Poetry—Celebrating the American West, Chama Cowboy Days, South Dakota Spirit of the West, Steppin' Back Guest Ranch;; and Tom Morgan, Jeri Dobrowski, Smoke Wade, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Susan Parker, Ken Cook, Linda Kirkpatrick, DW Groethe, Gwen Petersen, Janice Coggin, Sandi and Jay Snider, Nika Nordbrock, Karen Neurohr, Jo Lynne Kirkwood, Lauralee Northcott, Kathy and Van Criddle, Doris Daley, Tex Tumbleweed, Laurali Noteman, Alfred Janssen, Hal Swift, Diane Tribitt, Ann Blackford, Doc Stovall, Bobbie Hunter, Jim Hawkins, Al Mehl, Don Hilmer, Geff Dawson, Mick Vernon, PJ and Dallas McCord, Carla Bell, Jim Runge, Tom Cole, Linda Record, Cheryl Park, Lowell Moore, Jon Chandler, Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks, Juanita Buckley, Almeda Terry, Ronna Lee Sharpe, Laura and Tony Argento, Sr., Ralph Smith, Steve Conroy, Donnette Engebrecht, Fred Liese, Harlo Birkholz, Mark McMillan, Beth Bender, Kay Duke, Jackson Mackenzie, Francie Ganje, Pat Richardson, Sam Jackson, Stan Tixier, Tom Weatherby, Jennie Cummings, Maryanne Patterson, Mike Moutoux, Cimmaron Sue and Nevada Slim, Ted Flaum, Rick Nagle, Christopher Martinez, Janice Gilbertson, Cass Swanson, and Jan Billups.

Email us if you or your event should be on this list, and if you'd like a supply of cards.

You can help spread the word. Email us for a free supply of handout postcards about CowboyPoetry.com for your event or for places in your community that would welcome the information.

Updated 8/7


Additional recent news items continued here... A Prairie Home Companion; I.M. Cowgirl;  RATTLE deadline; Reports from the National Folk Festival;  American Cowboy "Tribute to Cowboy Legends"Rod Miller in Salt Lake Tribune; Cowboys & Indians; The Ranching Way of Life; Will Rogers Medallion Award; Rod Miller's Massacre at Bear River; Randy Rieman in Western Horseman; American Cowboy poetry on line; Prix de West; Monterey Cowboy Poetry Gathering; Buffalo Bill Historical Center's Cody Old West Show and Auction; Jerry Brooks on the Western Folklife Center's Ranch Rhymes; Janice Gilbertson's Sometimes, in the Lucias; National Folk Festival; Jack Thorp celebration concerts; and much more...


Features

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