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Winners in the nineteenth Annual Cowboy and Cowgirl 2017 Poetry Contest Winners, Shekinah Nia Sims, Jaiden Myrick and James Phillip Moreau read their winning poems.
Mothers, Please Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys At the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, an older generation is looking to pass the torch.
Performing cowboy poetry to preserve the classics. If he were born about half a century earlier, poet and musician D.J. Fry would have loved to be a cowboy. “Now, you probably think I was [alive ...
The Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will keep preserving, ... an event called “100 Kids and Horses,” which will give children under the age of 12 a chance to interact with horses; ...
Additional entertainment on Saturday, Sunday and Monday will include a Kids Stage, where performers will gear their music and poetry to children; and an Open Mic Stage, where newcomers can jam ...
Hedges, a 24-year-old mother, wife and rancher, harvests the realities of her distinctive life path to become a rising star in the world of cowboy poetry.
Dena Fritz told a crowd of more than 70 people Wednesday that she raises "crops, cattle and kids." The Chester, Mont., resident drew from her experiences as a self-professed "farm wife" to get… ...
GLADE PARK, Colo. — Gather ‘round the campfire and listen, folks, to tall tales and song. Don’t miss the fourth annual Glade Park Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival! This ...
As a sellout crowd jostled its way into the first big show of the 34th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on a late-January night in Elko, Nevada, old friends backslapped one another and ...
The 34th annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering Parade drew about 1,500 people to downtown on Saturday, Pam Jacobs, parade coordinator, said. About 200 people and at least 100 horses, plus many ...
Cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell performs during the "Home Means Nevada" show during the 30th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on Monday in Elko. (AP Photo/Elko Daily Free Press, Ross Andreson) ...
Former bull rider Red Steagall began his road to stardom as a cowboy poet and musician after contracting polio as a teenager and learning to play guitar and mandolin to regain physical dexterity ...