Cowboy Poetry Week, April 19-25, 2015, got me nostalgic for the pure American joy I am blessed with living and working in the rural West. It took me a week longer than Cowboy Poetry Week to dig this back out, but here’s a throwback from Montana Days, my tribute to small town rodeo. At the […]
Elko Cowboys Up
[v=MLUD6JGlV3s] Last week the nation’s greatest celebration of the American West took place in Elko, Nevada: the 28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. This shindig, produced by the Western Folklife Center, has both kinds of music—country and western. It is more country than anything Nashvegas will come out with, and more western than most any pro rodeo […]
