Cowboy Poetry

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12/01/20 • 66 min

Strider has paraphrased the wise and true words of Winston Churchill many times and he will do it again, "there is something about the outside of a horse that is dank for the inside of man." Well what about when those who use their backs to drive herds use poetry to dive deep and be heard? Cowboys writing and reciting poetry! Dank.

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Wikipedia.org, ‘Places With the Largest Horse Populations’ by Dorothy Stephenson , ‘The Lesser-known History of African-American Cowboys’ by Kate Nojimbadem smithsonianmag.org, Nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org, ‘On the Trail of Cowboy Poetry’ by David Stanley, Westminster College

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