Susie has been writing cowboy songs and poetry since age 15. True-life experiences are her source for story-like cowboy poetry and western songs. Inspired by rodeo legend, Chris LeDoux, Susie’s style captures a woman’s perspective on rodeo, ranch life, and horses.
Raised in the Chicago suburbs, Susie Knight was a “cowgirl” from age three when [...]
Chris is a poet/storyteller who has lived the life that he tells about. He has Cowboy’d for most of his 60-plus years, and his poems and stories are alive with the heart and humor of life from a cowboy’s point of view. He can usually find the funny side of any situation, and is considered [...]
Tom and Donna own and operate The Hatton Ranch located between Denver and Colorado Springs. They recently protected their historic ranch with a Palmer Land Trust conservation easement.
“This ranch is the place where Tom came as a child and brought me as a bride; we raised our kids on it. Our hearts and [...]
Slim is rapidly becoming a household name in the world of cowboy poetry. Slim paints a vivid picture of the west and the ornery characters who live there. His stories range from rural directions to CPR on mangy old heifers. If you want to laugh ’till yer innards hurt, Slim is your [...]
Nona was born in Colorado, and lives in the beautiful Grand Mesa area of Western Colorado. During part of her early years, she lived well beyond the electric lines in a cabin built of logs. She learned to read by the light of a kerosene lamp and rode horseback to school.
She married Alfred [...]
Floyd was born and raised in New Mexico and Colorado and attended college in Fort Collins, Colorado. His life-long dream was always to be a cowboy, and that was what he did as soon as he felt that he could. First he spent a stint as an ag teacher in Oak Creek, CO. Then [...]
Al grew up on farms and ranches in southern Idaho, including the ranch in the Wood River valley that his grandfather homesteaded in the 1890s. During World War II he served as a bombardier on B-29s in the China-Burma-India and Pacific theatres. He later received a law degree from the University of Idaho, [...]
Dreamers and doers: The first 30 years of Grand Junction, Part 2
Cultural interests were catered to early on with plays, musical performances and other entertainment. The town also hosted traveling professional performers. The Floradora Girls and Harry Houdini were particularly popular acts staged at the Park Opera House, with tickets priced between 50 cents and [...]
“What would entice an individual or a family to leave an established home for the unknown? The siren of “possibilities” sings temptingly to dreamers and doers. This pioneering spirit brought the first white settlers to the Western Slope of Colorado, shortly after the White River and Uncompahgre Ute Indians were removed to reservation lands in [...]
“Never judge your neighbor until you have walked 1,000 miles in his (or her) moccasins.” While admonished in this oft-quoted saying to be less judgmental and more empathetic to the plights of others, the illusive image of a Ute Indian in those well-worn moccasins might come to mind for those of us who call Western [...]