Listen in to the cowboy performing artist, Red Steagall, read poems in the video below! Red Steagall is an American actor, museum, poet and stage performer who focuses on American Western and country music genres. You can learn more about him at redsteagall.com. #NationalDayoftheCowboy #AQHFoundation #AQHMuseum | American Quarter Horse Foundation - Hall of Fame & Museum

Ever since the first year of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, the Gathering has featured a keynote address discussing a topic relevant to cowboy poetry, ranch culture, and the contemporary rural West. “Big Jim” Griffith, one of the event’s founders, delivered the very first keynote, a wonderful primer and introduction to cowboy poetry that set the tone for the first Gathering in 1985, and all the ones that followed. Jim Griffith was a folklorist based in southern Arizona, established the So