Western states cowboy poetry collection 1984

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Western states cowboy poetry collection 1984

Collection of poems written by cowboys in western states, collected in 1984 by various folklorists in an effort to collect and document cowboy poetry and to present a cowboy poetry event.

ca. 20 binders

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6624109

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Fife Folklore Archives

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Beginning in 2008, Randy Williams, Bradford Cole and Robert Parson (Utah State University's Special Collections and Archives), Elaine Thatcher (the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies) and Barbara Middleton (the College of Natural Resources' Department of Environment and Society) collaborated to collect the oral histories of key land use managers and users of Logan Canyon [Utah]. Randy Williams, Elaine Thatcher and Barbara Middleton trained interviewers from the Logan Canyon L...

Cannon, Hal, 1948-

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The Western States Cowboy Poetry Collection, housed at Utah State University, grew out of a concerted effort by western state folklorists in the early 1980s to collect, document, and present cowboy poetry. The idea for this work grew out of meetings of state folklorists in Washington D.C. at the National Endowment of the Arts Folk Arts Program and at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, a meeting with the Nevada Humanities Committee with various western state fol...

Institute of the American West

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Stanton, Gary Ward, 1946-

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Cowboy Poetry Gathering

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Annual event featuring poetry read by cowboy authors, held in Elko, Nevada, and sponsored by the Western Folklife Center. From the description of Registration materials, 1984- (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 41125096 ...