For the last eight years, Mancos resident and former Fort Lewis College education professor Lindy Simmons has produced an original two-hour Thursday night variety show involving day performers from ...

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 ...

To pass time and convey life on the range, cowboys crafted folk tales to the cadence of a horse’s clip-clop. These poems capture the rugged essence of cowboy life while evoking images of simpler times ...

ALPINE -- Stepping to the lectern, the man in the dusty Stetson hooked his thumbs in the pockets of his faded jeans, scanned his audience with his one good eye and began to speak. His subject was ...

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 ...

From her home near Mesa, Nona Kelly Carver pointed to where the old ranch house once stood. The house had been home to four generations of Carvers, but it deteriorated and was burned down in a fire- ...

Bent while boondocking outside Alkali, the Subaru’s driveshaft was repaired just in time. Nevada Smith is back on the road this week and headed to Elko for that remarkable roundup of purple sage ...

Not every country song or cowboy poem includes a list like Tom T. Hall’s: “I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain…” but cowboy poets and songwriters continue to ...

When many of us think of the iconic Texas cowboy, we conjure up images of a rugged wrangler with a quick draw. We think of a man like Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove, who said the best way to live ...

He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, “Cowboyin’ with God,” which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album of the Year. The organization’s Awards of ...