FOLK COLLECTION 11h

Cowboy Poetry Poster Collection

Historical Note

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Provenance

The materials in the Cowboy Poetry Poster Collection date from 1983 to the present time. Because the Fife Folklore Archives is the repository of a large collection of cowboy poetry books, many gatherings and groups/publishers on cowboy poetry give posters regarding this genre to the FFA. In April 2006, Randy Williams pulled all the posters together and created this collection.

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Scope and Content

Cowboy poetry posters, housed in acid-free archival folders in USU's Special Collections and Archives Map Cabinet 1.

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Folder 2:   Cowboy Poetry Posters

Item 1:   The American Cowboy: A Library of Congress Exhibition, 26 March - 2 October 1983.

Item 2:   The Cowboy Tour: Songs, Big Windy Stories, Fiddling and Poetry by Cowboys and Buckaroos, presented by

The National Council for the Traditional Arts with the Support of the National Endowment for the Arts and

Western States Arts and Humanities, 1984[?].

Item 3:   9th Annual Old West Days: Wyoming Centennial 1890-1990, Jackson Hole, WY, 25-28 May 1990,

sponsored by The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, The Jackson State Bank, Buckskin Mercantile,

produced in cooperation with the Jackson Hole Visitors Council. (2 copies)

Item 4:   New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering, Edited by Hal Cannon, Gibbs-Smith Publisher,

Peregrine Smith Books, 1990.

Item 5:   I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 1998.

Item 6:   Cowboy Poetry Week, cowboypoetry.com., a non-profit Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry,

16-22 April, 2006.