Sun Sand Soapweed

Western and cowboy poetry capturing glimpses of both serious and humourous aspects of life in the west...from "Crouchmas" to "Calving Season" and from "Four-Letter Words" to "Western Sunset." While the poems are reality-based, the author has not hesitated to exercise the cowboy's propensity to embellish the truth.

An award-winning author's fourth book of western and cowboy poetry contains 65 original poems which capture the viewpoints, biases, and philosophies that were shaped by the Great Depression and years of drought in the sand hills of Nebraska.

The author, a prize-winning cowboy poet, delivers the reality of the West through this, his third collection of original western and cowboy poetry. His work is pointed toward remembering, preserving, sharing, and celebrating our western and cowboy heritage and traditions. The poems are drawn, primarily, from his experience as a young cowboy in the Sandhills of Nebraska in the 1930's and 1940's. They are also influenced by his pre-teen acquaintance with Badger Clark, the classic cowboy poet, who was then Poet Laureate of South Dakota.

Of costs by tenure. pp. 51.