Red Steagall Twenty years ago, long before he would earn his place as the first “cowboy” poet to be named poet laureate of Texas, Red Steagall threw his inaugural cowboy gathering in the Fort Worth Stockyards. Yet when True West asked Red what events on his tour he was most excited about, he went through a roster of big deal events before he even mentioned his Cowboy Gathering’s 20th anniversary this October 22-24. You’ll find him at the 100th birthday celebration in Lewellen, Nebraska,
September 2010
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- Caught With His Pants Down?
- One Basket at a Time
- Rediscovering the O.K. Corral
- Buffalo, Wyoming
- Waddie Mitchell
- Equitrekking the American West
- A Cowboy Classic is Created
- Following John Wesley Hardin Across Texas
- A Cure for Baldness?
- The Myth of the Single Shot Kill
- The Genesis of Jeans
- From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol
- “He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
- Lone Star Vodka
- Whatever happened to Johnny Ringo’s guns?
- A few years back, we visited a Kansas site called “Little House on the Prairie.”
- What does the word “tinhorn” mean?
- What can you share about Judge Roy Bean?
- Did trail drives ever intersect?
- Where did the term “chuckwagon” come from?