The 31st Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering was held last month in Alpine on the campus of Sul Ross State University. Preserving the proud tradition of the American West in words and music is its purpose.

ALPINE — With clever poems about rotted dead jack rabbits, rural married life and a would-be Rooster Cogburn, Elizabeth Ebert lit up a packed auditorium at Sul Ross University. One of the grand dames ...

Ernie Sites is often dressed as if he is about to corral a herd of cattle, but his predominant talent for most of his life has been the ability to bring people together to hear stories and songs of ...

WHEN in 1908 a check for $500 came from Harvard University for my first year as a Sheldon Fellow, I was the happiest person in the world. Never before at one time had I owned so much money, money that ...

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time Deep in the heart of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, just a few doors down from H Mart and a K-pop music ...

With the echo of his boots hitting the wooden stage at Marshall Auditorium at Sul Ross State University, he steps into the spotlight. The light falls on his worn Levis and plaid khaki work shirt. The ...

In the first two decades after the Civil War, more than 10 million cattle were driven north from Texas to railheads in Kansas, where they could be shipped to larger markets in the east. Fighting ...

The word “buckaroo” is an American corruption of “vaquero,” the Spanish word for cowboy. Unlike their counterparts on the Great Plains, the stockmen of the Great Basin — comprising large parts of Utah ...

I'm *** reporter on the 6 o'clock news, but I've always wanted to run with the big buckaroos, so I'll lay down my pad and pin for *** while and try to do things cowboy style. The Sunday shirt dressed ...