• Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry that grew from a tradition of cowboys telling stories. Contrary to common belief, cowboy poetry does not actually have...
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  • Curley Fletcher (category Cowboy culture)
    American composer of cowboy songs and cowboy poetry. A prolific creator of this material, he is best remembered for the classic cowboy song "The Strawberry...
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  • Western lifestyle or cowboy culture is the lifestyle, or behaviorisms, of, and resulting from the influence of, the (often romanticized) attitudes, ethics...
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  • The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering (formerly: Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering), is an annual gathering celebrating cowboy poetry produced by the Western...
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    Baxter Black (category Cowboy poets)
    (January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022) was an American cowboy poet and veterinarian. He wrote over 30 books of poetry, fiction—both novels and children's literature—and...
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    A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related...
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    Michael Martin Murphey (category Singing cowboys)
    Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and...
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  • Quinlan is an American cowboy poet, whose work has been published in many books and magazines, as well as on various online poetry databases. His writing...
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  • States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of...
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    Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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    Western wear (redirect from Cowboy shirt)
    snap fasteners and vaquero design accents, blue jeans, cowboy hat, a leather belt, and cowboy boots. In the early days of the Old West, it was the bowler...
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    National Cowboy Poetry Gathering since 1985. This festival is held each January and is a week-long celebration of life in the rural West, featuring poetry, music...
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    Radio, Nashville, Tennessee (more than 50 guest appearances) National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada (2000, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08...
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  • American singer-songwriter who writes cowboy poetry. He was the keynote speaker at the 33rd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. In 2014 he was inducted into...
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    hosts the George West Storyfest, a festival that features storytelling, cowboy poetry, and music. Numerous ranches surround George West. The Texas author...
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    Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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    21st century. Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, usually late February, is a celebration of the oral tradition of working cowboys in poetry, song, and music...
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  • Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger (1911/ Rhymes of the range and trail) tells his story to another cowboy. Members...
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    with great value put on personal honesty, exemplified in songs and cowboy poetry. The code also included the gunfighter, who sometimes followed a form...
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    Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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    century. The term "cowboy", as opposed to "cowhand," had only begun to come into wider usage during the 1870s. In that place and time, "cowboy" was synonymous...
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    music Cowboy poetry Creation stories Curses English similes Epic poetry Fable Fairy tale Folk belief Folk etymologies Folk metaphors Folk poetry Folk music...
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    Sacagawea was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. In 1976, she was inducted into the National Cowgirl...
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    Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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    Bass Reeves (category Cowboys)
    independent film Corsicana. A theatrical production about Reeves entitled Cowboy, written and directed by Layon Gray, debuted in 2019 at the National Black...
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    Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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    Kansas. The term alludes to the fact that many of its occupants were cowboys who "died with their boots on", the implication here being they died violently...
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    Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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  • Frontier culture American bison Barbed wire Boot Hill Cattle drive Cowboy poetry Cattle rustling Cow town Fast draw Ghost town Gunfights Homesteading...
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