‘A big bad bull whipped me down’: cowboy poetry, old art form of the US west, lassos a new generation

They’re here to take part in Cowboy Poetry Los Angeles, a collective dedicated to preserving the history of the American west through authentic storytelling. For city slickers unfamiliar with cowboy poetry, it’s a folk art that emerged from oral traditions. Around the 1870s, during long cattle drive...

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