At the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, readers and writers celebrate the lyrical beauty of rural existence. The Elko Convention Center looks like just about any convention center in small-town ...

When the racket of whistle and applause wanes, Andy Wilkinson sets the ukulele at his feet, spreads a notebook across the lectern and—as he gazes into a 900-seat auditorium—launches headlong into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 24—Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for ...

April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life - no shade. But because of ...

Our mission is to promote and celebrate the ranching and cowboy culture of the old and new West through song, story, ...

Without a P.A. system, it was difficult to hear anything while sitting behind the podium, and so, as the cowboy poet R. P. Smith waited for his turn at the mike, arms akimbo and boots on the ground, ...

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time Deep in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, just a few doors down from H Mart and a K-pop music ...

For those of us without cowboy roots, poetry might not immediately come to mind when we think of the wild, wild west. But according to performers and members with the Alberta Cowboy Poetry Association ...

For decades, cowboy songs were a formidable segment of pop music, from the days when Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Bob Wills rode high, the Sons of the Pioneers harmonized about tumbleweeds, and the ...

After 18 years on the road, Bob Schild writes what he knows Bob Schild has lived his life the cowboy way, growing up practically on the back of a horse in eastern Idaho. He rode bucking horses and ...

Twenty years ago, California rancher John Dofflemyer and his bride took their vows surrounded by poets, musicians, storytellers—and cowboys. The setting was the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, an ...

The western band Saddle Strings will perform this weekend at Antelope Island's Cowboy Legends at Antelope Island State Park. You don’t have to be a cowboy to party like one. All you have to do is ...