Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering
By (Author) Hal Cannon
Gibbs M. Smith Inc
Gibbs M. Smith Inc
1st October 1985
United States
General
Non Fiction
811.04408352
Paperback
216
Width 108mm, Height 171mm, Spine 19mm
181g
This collection of poems was chosen from among 10, 000 gathered from cowboy reciters, ranch poets and from a library of over 200 published works of cowboy verse. One third of the poems are classics that have proven their vitality by having lived in the hearts and minds of cowboys and ranchers for decades. The remaining two-thirds are new, created
Hal Cannon was the first director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, and founder of the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering. He lives in Salt Lake City.