Western Folklife Center
We're the home of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and our mission is to use story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
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Cowboy Life Isn't for Quitters
A Cowboy's Training Device Instruction Goes Awry
A Cowboy Poet's Panic Leads to Some Regrets
Farrier Figgs Tells the Story of a Legendary Horse
The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is Calling
Making Snowbanks, by Linda & Carolyn Dufurrena: 2004 Ranch Communications video
Two Generations of Working Cowgirls Sing "Cowboy's Wage"
Rodney Attempts to Bridge the Rural/Urban Divide with a Poem about a TV Talk Show for Critters
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Vess Quinlan recites Guy Clark's "Indian Head Penny"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Dylan Clough performs "Mi Amigo"
Have A Superior Day, by Peter Church - a Ranch Communications Video
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: An American Forrest is "Burnin' Starlight"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: DW Groethe is "Leavin' It All Behind"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Marinna Mori and "Beneath Me"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Carol Heuchan recites Jack Drake's "Bronco Harry's Last Ride"
The Things You See at an Old Folks Rodeo...
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Paul Zarzyski and "Words Growing Wild in the Woods"
Tris Munsick in the 2020 Gathering Sheep Camp - on Perserverance
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Elizabeth Ebert and "An Ordinary Morning"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Brenn Hill and "Buckaroo Tattoo"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Matt Robertson sings "James Shoshone"
Yula Sue Hunting recites the "Bronco Twisters Prayer" in Elko c. 1985
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Ryan & Hoss Fritz "The Old Bronco Mare"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Giselle Ruiz performs "Greed"
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Sourdough Slim and Robert Armstrong Entertain the Crowd
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Jack George performs "The Sierry Petes" by Gail I. Gardner
Painted Horse Performs at the 2020 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Dom Flemons and the Steel Pony Blues