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Who is Badger Clark?

by | Aug 5, 2009 | Inside History

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Who is Badger Clark? Vic Soboleski International Falls, Minnesota Charles Badger Clark was one of America’s greatest cowboy poets and South Dakota’s “poet lariat.” The son of a popular gold camp Methodist minister, 23-year-old Clark left the Black Hills of South Dakota for the deserts of Arizona in 1906. The dry climate suited his tuberculosis. He went to work at the Cross I Quarter Circle Ranch near Tombstone and over the next four years penned enough poems on the cowboy life to write


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