Tag: Western

Joe Kreger wrote his first poem in response to hardship. Fellow cowboy poet Wallace Moore created verses in his head while on the job at a factory. Eventually their work was “discovered” by friends and relatives, and their performing careers were launched. A cowboy poet, Moore says, “is someone who believes that he or she has a story to tell....

Small town Waukomis, Oklahoma, is surrounded by Garfield County’s prairie farmlands, and it’s also home to historian and author John J. Dwyer. With seven books and a few study guides under his belt – including part of our state’s first comprehensive history in many years – he’s working on more. Dwyer’s The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People...