When a Cowboy’s in a pinch, he just tightens up the cinch, spurs his horse and rides right through it ’cause that’s the way the Duke’d do it. He’d Cowboy Up.” Those first few lines from Producer Jeff Hildebrandt’s poem, “Cowboy Up America,” summed up the Cowboy Spirit Award (CSA) he accepted on behalf of the Starz!/Encore Westerns Channel at this year’s Bison Communities National Festival of the West, held March 18-21 at Westworld in Scottsdale, Arizona. His poem is a fit

June 2004
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- In a Land of Extremes
- Cowboy Up America
- The Buffalo Hunt
- Beyond Custer Hill
- If Johnny Ringo had participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight, what do you think the outcome would have been?
- My favorite license plate is Wyoming’s. Can you tell me about its bucking horse logo?
- Are there real bodies buried in Tombstone, Arizona’s Boot Hill? I’ve heard the markers are fake.
- Down to the Last Moccasin
- Phippen Art Museum
- Long-Guns of the Gunfighters
- One Handsome Gun
- Forging a Road to Zion
- Texas True
- Ruxton’s Trading Post
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- Boot Scootin’ Boogie
- Donaldina Cameron
- Bombs Over Texas