2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. During the week, various workshops including rawhide braiding, poetry writing, livestock nutrition and cooking workshops were held. The cooking workshops were geared towards celebrating the culture of some of the special guests including the Fisher Poets. They are fisherman who write poetry and share it in in much the same vain as the cowboys. They brought salmon, crab and other delicacies from the sea. Also, Argentine Gauchos prepared a traditional Gaucho Barbecue with a lamb cooked outside on an open pit surrounded by corrugated metal.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. During the week, various workshops including rawhide braiding, poetry writing, livestock nutrition and cooking workshops were held. The cooking workshops were geared towards celebrating the culture of some of the special guests including the Fisher Poets. They are fisherman who write poetry and share it in in much the same vain as the cowboys. They brought salmon, crab and other delicacies from the sea. Also, Argentine Gauchos prepared a traditional Gaucho Barbecue with a lamb cooked outside on an open pit surrounded by corrugated metal.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. During the week, various workshops including rawhide braiding, poetry writing, livestock nutrition and cooking workshops were held. The cooking workshops were geared towards celebrating the culture of some of the special guests including the Fisher Poets. They are fisherman who write poetry and share it in in much the same vain as the cowboys. They brought salmon, crab and other delicacies from the sea. Also, Argentine Gauchos prepared a traditional Gaucho Barbecue with a lamb cooked outside on an open pit surrounded by corrugated metal.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Workshops and performances at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. During the week, various workshops including rawhide braiding, poetry writing, livestock nutrition and cooking workshops were held. The cooking workshops were geared towards celebrating the culture of some of the special guests including the Fisher Poets. They are fisherman who write poetry and share it in in much the same vain as the cowboys. They brought salmon, crab and other delicacies from the sea. Also, Argentine Gauchos prepared a traditional Gaucho Barbecue with a lamb cooked outside on an open pit surrounded by corrugated metal.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Keri Lynn Zwicker, left and Joe Hertz of Celtic Cowboy perform on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

2006 Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Grace Quebe of the Quebe Sisters autographs a volunteer's teeshirt backstage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Luis Carlos Burges of Southern Brazil stretches and mentally prepares backstage before going on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada to play traditional Gaucho music typical of the herders of the Gaucho region of South America which encompasses Southern Brazil, Argentina and Urguay.

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Cowgirl poet Doris Daley of Alberta, center talks Cowgirl poet Virginia Bennett, left and Cowboy poet Rodney Nelson, right backstage before going on stage to perform alongside Nelson and Glenn Ohrlin on the main stage at the Elko Convention Center for the 22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering put together by the Western Folklife Center.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Doris Daley of Alberta adjusts her scarf backstage before performing on the main stage at the Elko Convention Center for the 22nd annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering put together for the Western Folklife Center. Daley performed alongside Cowboy poets Glenn Ohrlin and Rod Nelson.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Doris Daley of Alberta performs on the main stage at the Elko Convention Center for the 22nd annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering put together for the Western Folklife Center. Daley performed alongside Glenn Ohrlin and Rod Nelson.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Doris Daley of Alberta performs on the main stage at the Elko Convention Center for the 22nd annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering put together for the Western Folklife Center. Daley performed alongside Glenn Ohrlin and Rod Nelson.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Sourdough Slim rehearses backstage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Wylie Gustafson of Wylie and the Wild West finishes up a sound check on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Gustafson's yodel may be more recognizeable than his face as his yodel is the yodel used by Yahoo.com.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Wylie Gustafson of Wylie and the Wild West watches from backstage legendary cowboy poet Joel Nelson on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Gustafson's yodel may be more recognizeable than his face as his yodel is the yodel used by Yahoo.com.

Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Sourdough Slim does a sound check on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy poets Wally McRae, left and Paul Zarzyski, right, improv onstage at the Western Folklife Center's stage for the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy poets Wally McRae, left and Paul Zarzyski, right, improv onstage at the Western Folklife Center's stage for the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski laughs as he does an autograph signing at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski signs a book during an autograph signing session at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy Poets Virginia Bennett, left and Colen Sweeten Jr. laugh onstage during a poetry session. The session was supposed to be tear jerkers but Bennett, Sweeten and the other poets broke the mood with some lighter poems and stories. Sweeten, 85, was writing cowboy poetry before the genre ever became popular.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Crowds move throught the Elko Convention Center and look at exhibited cowboy culture pieces on display at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Riders in the Sky bass player Too Slim plays on the main stage with the rest of the band at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Backstage, Riders in the Sky bass player Too Slim demonstrates his "face playing" after their band played on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

After the evening performances are over at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, the evening music sessions just begin as anyone with an instrument is welcomes to join in on any of the many spontaneous "jam sessions" which break out at the Pioneer Bar at the Western Folklife Center and upstairs at the Stockman Hotel where many of the artists stay for the gathering.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy Poet Baxter Black tells stories and recites poems to a packed house on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Black is also known as an NPR personality.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Participants can take dance lessons from dancers Nancy Kern and Kraig Sundberg like this class in Pony Swing at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Kern's dress flares as Sundberg swings her around.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Cowboy Poet Baxter Black tells stories and recites poems to a packed house on the main stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Black is also known as an NPR personality.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

From left, Joey McKenzie and the The Quebe Sisters Sophia, Hulda, and Grace get ready to go on stage at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

The audience watches performers Don Edwards, Curley Musgrave and Kip Calahan at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Grace Quebe of The Quebe sisters fine tunes her fiddle before she and her two sisters head on stage to perform at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

It was a crowded dance floor as Wylie and the Wild West perform at a Western dance at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

After the evening performances are over at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, the evening music sessions just begin as anyone with an instrument is welcomes to join in on any of the many spontaneous "jam sessions" which break out at the Stockman Hotel where many of the artists stay for the gathering. Gathering participants head up the stairs at Stockmans to watch and listen to the jam sessions until the wee hours of the morning.

22nd Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering

The Ruby Mountains as seen from the road between Elko and Lamoille. Lamoille is a small ranching community at the foot of the Rubies.