Thread: This is America: No Trespassing!

August 10, 2007

This is America: No Trespassing!
By Joe Guzzardi
http://www.vdare.com/

On a recent trip to Elko, Nevada to attend the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, I got some unexpected insights into the National Question.

Let me encourage all of you to attend a cowboy poetry gathering. The Elko event is the granddaddy of them all, but many others have popped up throughout the Rockies and the southwestern U.S.

Even if you live in tinhorn country, the journey to Elko—most likely via the Salt Lake City airport—is well worth the trouble.

Where else can you hear cowboys describe wide-open spaces, sleeping under the stars and their love of family, friends, animals, western lore and, most of all, America?

This year, one of the presenting poets was Wallace McRae, known to many as the “Cowboy Curmudgeonâ€

Excellent!