As a sellout crowd jostled its way into the first big show of the 34th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on a late-January night in Elko, Nevada, old friends backslapped one another and laughed ...

When Justin Reichert was 18, he caught a ride with a friend from his family’s farm in McPherson, Kansas, to Elko, Nevada, 1,200 miles away. It was 1992, the seventh year of Elko’s National Cowboy ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Greetings from the ranch, where I rolled in after midnight following a 24-hour travel day from Elko, Nevada, where I spent a long weekend performing and catching up with friends ...

Jessie Veeder heads into an auditorium full of elementary students at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering’s 40th Anniversary Celebration in Elko, Nevada.

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It’s barely sunrise, but I’m already warming up my voice for a yodelling session with Kristyn Harris – a young buck reviving ...

ELKO, Nev. • It’s not just about poetry. The 29th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering will offer roundtable discussions concerning the American West, including the need for water conservation.

Melina travels all the way from Pegasus Books on Shattuck Ave to Elko, Nevada for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. This is part two of a two-part episode on cowboy poetry. Last episode talked ...

The atmosphere was not surprising — Elko, population about 18,000, sits in the northeastern corner of Nevada, an oasis in the Great Basin’s high-desert terrain and the center of the area’s ranching ...