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See details about our 2002 Daily Holiday Additions below
This year's collection of classic and modern Christmas Cowboy Poetry, stories, and more is right here. It includes a page of New Year poetry here.
Our collection of classic and modern from last year, 2001, is right here.
See the great collection of Christmas Cowboy Poetry from 2000 right here.
(And there's plenty other news in our most recent Newsletter and
even more recent news in our News Since the Last Newsletter)
Old pard Carl Condray and his gal Jan were at Michael Martin Murphey's Cowboy Christmas Ball in Anson, Texas, and Carl sent us a fine report on the festivities, a few photos, and a history of the event, right here. Posted 12/24
Everybody's favorite DJ and host of Keepin' it Cowboy on KJON in Andarko, Oklahoma, Jo Hargrave had her third annual Keepin' it Cowboy Call-in Christmas Show on Saturday, December 21, 2002.
On December 23, 2002 we received this report:
A CMT film crew was in Anadarko, Ok this past Friday and Saturday (Dec 20 & 21st) at the KJON studios at 102 East Central, to film the 3rd Annual
"Keepin' It Cowboy" Call-in Christmas Show for a CMT Christmas Special that
will air in the 2003 holiday season. Pre-show interviews were done on
Friday with "Keepin' It Cowboy" host Jo Hargrave and guest cowboy poet Jay Snider. Jo says, "I think we were able to give them an idea of what we do, our heritage, and how passionate we are about it."
Saturdays in-studio guests, Tim Graham of Weatherford, Tx, Lanny Joe Burnett of Bonham, Tx, Hank Elling of Cache, Ok, Jay Snider of Cyril, Ok, Chuck Milner of Reydon, Ok, Ginnymac of Ft. Worth,Tx rode through downtown Anadarko and were delivered to the studio in a covered wagon pulled by Belgian horses provided by Swinging T. Hitches of Comanche, Ok. Owner and driver was Steve Tevebaugh and outrider, on a mule, was his son, Dustin. In addition to filming the ride to the studio in the covered wagon and filming the in-studio guests during the show, there were callers whose poems and songs and holiday greetings also made it on film. Those were Jeff
Hildebrandt, Colo., producer of the Encore/Westerns Channel, Donnie Blanz, former Nashville songwriter (co-author of "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" and many others), Bill Barwick, cowboy singer, songwriter and announcer for the Westerns Channel, Hal Swift, poet/author, J. W. Beeson, poet/author, Francine Roark Robison, Oklahoma's Official Cowboy Poet Laureate, Shawnee, Ok, Samuel Passamonte, singer/poet/author, of New York, T. J. Casey, Montana's Singing Cowboy, Janet McBride, Song of the Year Winner/WMA, Stan Pariegen, Edmond, Ok, poet/author, Curly Musgrave, singer/songwriter whose song, "Cowboy True," has been featured on the Westerns Channel, Jim Gough, the voice of many western audio books and western swing performer, Larry Hannon, Garden City, Kansas radio personality/singer/songwriter, Joe Baker, producer of the Backforty
Bunkhouse on KWES in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and Mike Puhallo, Kamloops,
BC,Canada writer/poet, and President of the Charley Russell Western Heritage Association."Keepin' It Cowboy" can be heard across southwest Oklahoma and into Texas, each Saturday, noon to 2pm, on 850 AM KJON, and features cowboy music and poetry, interviews, coming events and giveaways. Jo's Cowboy Gospel program on Sunday mornings airs from 7:30 am to 10:45am. Find out more about "Keepin' It Cowboy" on the website at www.keepinitcowboy.com.
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Back by popular demand, First Lariat Laureate Rod Nichols has a
dazzlin' presentation of his poem, "Christmas Comes to Line Camp," at his
great web site right
here in a special "web book" with music and entrancin'
graphics.
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Honored Guest Buckshot
Dot's own web site has
books, recordin's, cards with her fine drawin', and more at her mercantile,
where there's a special 25% Christmas discount on all items right
now. And you can send pards a free e-postcard
with Dot's own art and music over at her web site here.
We've posted the poem again that she shared with us last year, The
Star and a Humble Cowboy, which has an
even more special meanin' this year. You can read the poem and more here.
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There's a big
auction goin' on with plenty good stuff over at the Academy of
Western Artists, sponsors of the Annual Will Rogers Awards, a "dedicated group formed to recognize and honor outstanding
individuals who, through their accomplishments, preserve and perpetuate the traditions,
values and heritage of the American Cowboy. . ." Mosey over to their
site to see all the great stuff in the auction, and while you're
there, join up, get yourself a subscription to Rope Burns, the premier source
for all the news in Western entertainment, and make some new pards.
(The photo is Pistol, Sandra Herl's
filly. Sandra makes the auction and just about everythin' else
work at the AWA.)
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Our good pards north of the border at the BC
Cowboy Heritage Society (BCCHS) have a fun special
Christmas page that is full of gift-givin' ideas of BCCHS gear,
tickets for the 2003
Kamloops Cowboy Festival, and recordin's and books by their members
and pards. Like they say, "you'd be making someone happy and
at the same time you'd be helping out the Society! Mosey over to their
site and enjoy Christmas and all the poetry and other features they
have goin.'
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Our pards over at SilverCreek
Books and Music have their own daily Christmas celebration goin' on,
where you'll find new Cowboy Christmas books and music available every
day at special prices at their Cowboy
Christmas Store. In fact it's more than that. They
say:
We'll be featuring the very best in Cowboy and Western Christmas Books & Music. And each day we'll add other (not just Western & Cowboy) products at very special prices. So come back everyday and shop right in the comfort of your home!
Ride on over and shop with some of the nicest folks in the West.
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Our good pards over at Cowboy Miner,
the folks who publish the best in classic and contemporary poetry have Holiday
Specials for you. Visit their web
site and you'll find, among other specials, their D. J. O'Malley book
available for just $14.95 (see our feature based on the book here),
other discounted books, and their new offerin's, which include Jim Cook's Arizona
Liar's Journal and a new music CD by Sue Harris. They offer free
gift wrappin' with every order.
We're always pleased when folks like what they find at the BAR-D, and we thank the followin' folks for linkin' to us on their own Holiday pages:
123Christmas-greetings.com, where you'll find lots of e-cards and holiday links.
101Christmas.net, where you'll find "Christmas Greetings, Ecards, and Other Resources."
123 Greetings, where they offer "Christmas Ecards, New Year, Kwanzaa Cards, Birthday Greetings, Love E-cards and more..."
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See our calendar for Cowboy Poetry Events.
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See Voleta Hummel's Cowboy and Western Music Events Calendar, which we're pleased to host right here at the BAR-D. It's sponsored by Rope Burns, Your Source for Western Music, and Western Skies Publicists & Photography
Daily Treats!
Somethin' new for you each and every day
December 2002
1st It's beginnin' to look a lot like Christmas. We have First Lariat Laureate Rod Nichols' poem, A Cowboy Christmas Carol and a letter from our special columnist Charlie Camden as he rides into the season.
2nd The season calls for dancin' of course. And that's what's happenin' in Lariat Laureate runner up Francine Roark Robison's The Cowboy Christmas Ball, Carl Condray's Winter Stampede, and one of our favorite classic holiday poems, William Lawrence "Larry" Chittenden's The Cowboys' Christmas Ball.
3rd Past Lariat Laureate Jo Lynne Kirkwood tells us her fine Christmas on the North Fork is based in part on events from a Christmas passed about ten years ago up on the Salmon Fork in Idaho, and we have another of our favorite classic holiday poems, S. Omar Barker's Drylander's Christmas.
4th We welcome our newest Honored Guest Carole Jarvis with her Desert Cowboy's Christmas. Then turnin' to another sort of reverent, we have Honored Guest Virginia Bennett's Sermon on the Mount; an old favorite, The Star and a Humble Cowboy from Honored Guest Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson) with special meanin' this year; old pard Mike Henley's The Gate Cut; and a fittin' classic holiday poem from S. Omar Barker, A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer.
5th Honored Guest and proud Texan Jim Fish delivers a fine message in his Christmas Time's Around the Bend and so does Australian Henry Lawson, in a poem written well over a century ago, The Fire at Ross's Farm.
6th Old pard Yvonne Hollenbeck has somethin' to say on behalf of American cattlemen in her All American Christmas and with similar thoughts for our pards to the north, we have another of our favorite holiday classics by Canadian Rhoda Sivell, Happy Days
7th Now the spirit of Christmas comes in all shapes and sizes, and Hilda the trail drive cook, six foot four and three hundred pounds, shows that's a fact in Lariat Laureate runner up Brenda "Sam" DeLeeuw's Christmas Gift -- A Sack of Dreams. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Lariat Laureate runner up Jean Mathisen offers up her God Rest Ye Merry Cattlemen.
8th A fittin' poem for an Advent Sunday comes from Honored Guest Colen Sweeten, Christmas Beneath the Stars.
9th Santa's workin' overtime right answerin' his mail, and Ron Brinegar's Letter to Santa gives us a peek into the mailbag and over his shoulder and let's us know about two extra special helpers. Meanwhile Santa's makin' his list and checkin' it twice and his criteria is the same everywhere, as shown in Santa in the Bush, a favorite classic by Australia's A. B. "Banjo" Paterson.
10th Still thinkin' on Santa and seein' him through the little pokes' eyes, Lariat Laureate runner up Byrd Woodward brings us A Four-Year-Old's Christmas Truth and Lariat Laureate runner up Janice Gilbertson adds A "Little Cowboy" Conversation.
11th Well there's plenty more to say about Santa Claus, and Lariat Laureate runner up Ezra Spur says some of it in The Visit and "Banjo" Paterson adds more in another classic, Santa Claus.
12th Harkin' back to when the world was a kindlier a more gentle place, Mike Dunn remembers good times in Wrappings & Bows.
13th As to donkeys and mules, humble and otherwise, several folks have Christmas tales about 'em. One old favorite of ours is Connie Rossignol's Of Donkeys and Reindeer and we're also pleased to have a couple new ones: Lariate Laureate runner up David Dill's Jefferson's Christmas (yes, it has somethin' to do with a president) and Lynne Hendrickson's Reindeer Disguise.
14th Our old pard Paul Hatch's An Arizona Christmas put us to thinkin' about offerin' a kinda buffet of poems today, and we're glad to bring you Honored Guest Mike Puhallo's latest Meadow Muffin, Countdown to Christmas; and poems from two Lariat Laureate runners up: Tex Tumbleweed's The Cowboy's Christmas Ball and Steve Dirksen's Cowboy Christmas Light.
15th Nona Kelley Carver has a way of combinin' nostalgia and inspiration in her When The Cowboys Came For Christmas, a fine mix for another Advent Sunday.
16th Monday is serious enough on its own, so how about a "reel" cowboy in Suzann Darnall's The Night Before Christmas...Texas Style; Honored Guest Pat Richardson's Christmas card messages, Howdy Friend and Merry Christmas; and a favorite old classic by Arthur Chapman, Christmas Shopping in Cactus Center.
17th Old pard Jim Fox stopped by with his A Penner's Letter to Santa; Lariat Laureate runner up Sam DeLeeuw weighs in with A Rancher's Wife's Christmas, and new pard Eric Wyman counts his blessin's in Progress.
18th Lariat Laureate runner up Jean Mathisen brings us a Wyoming tale in Dust and Snow and we're sharin' another BAR-D favorite classic poem, Bruce Kiskaddon's The Old Time Christmas.
19th Hats off to Santa, the Mrs., and other sidekicks today with a few favorites from last year: past Lariat Laureate Jay Snider's Santa's Helper; Lariat Laureate runner up Linda Kirkpatrick's Santa Claus' Sidekick; and old pard Rose Mary Allmendinger's Dear Santa. And Santa's makin' appearances in new poems incudin' Laureate runner up Hal Swift's Santy Claus Truly is Real; old pards Jim Owen's One of Those Nights Before Christmas and Keith L. Adams' Christmas on the Porch; and new pard Lee Young's When Santa Met Saddle Tramp Lee.
20th Today we're bringin' you another classic favorite by Bruce Kiskaddon, The Cowboys Christmas Dance; Lariat Laureate runner up McCloud's Cowboys and Christmas; and old pard Glen Enloe's Don't Ever Sell Your Saddle.
21st It's a kind of ranchin' "Wonderful Life" today, with Lariat Laureate Jane Morton's Ranch Christmas and Honored Guest Colen Sweeten's Memories of Christmas, while Howard Norskog's tale is about The Old Cowboy's Christmas.
22nd On a last Advent Sunday, we're bringin' you poems that all were inspired by the Story: Honored Guest Colen Sweeten's In a Manger; S. J. Passamonte's In the Barn on Christmas Eve, Bobby Cohoon's It Happened One Christmas; Lee Earl's A Helping Hand; and Timothy Carrier's The First Christmas.
23rd Today we're sharin' two of our favorite classic Christmas Cowboy poems: S. Omar Barker's Line-Camp Christmas Letter and Robert Service's The Trapper's Christmas Eve.
24th It's Christmas Eve, and J. W. Beeson's fine Christmas Serenade marks the day in a pert' near perfect way.
25th Merry Christmas to all our BAR-D pards and poets! We have an extra special treat from first Lariat Laureate Rod Nichols right here, a surprise for the BAR-D crew from "deep in the heart of Texas" that we are happy to share with all of you pards out there.
There's always room at the BAR-D for a late visitor, and besides we'd never deprive our pards of Honored Guest Larry Maurice's inspired Peace on Earth.
Finally, we leave you all to what we hope are plenty fine festivities with maybe our all-time favorite classic Cowboy Christmas poem, Badger Clark's "The Christmas Trail":
