NATIONAL COWBOY POETRY RODEO

                                 RODEO COUNTRY
          The author, Bette Wolf Duncan, grew up in southeastern Montana, not far from the Wyoming border. This is Rodeo Country; and she celebrates this rich western heritage with  cowboy poetry and photos of regional rodeo champions.

               She is the granddaughter of early Montana and North Dakota pioneers; and she was married to a former cowboy whose grandparents were among the earliest ranchers in southeast Montana. She can still hear with her heart the pioneers tales of relatives and other old-timers. This book is the echo of their tales and of good times remembered.

  RODEO COUNTRY contains a collection of poetry and written accounts that embody much of the history and events that shaped Montana and Wyoming: the westward movement of the covered wagons; Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show; data and poem about Earl Durand; Wyoming's enactment of the Suffrage Act (the first state to do so); the Mormon handcart trek through Wyoming;  Black Sunday (April 14, 1935) and the dust bowl; the Johnson County War; the Coal Mine Disaster at Bearcreek, MT; the disastrous winter of 1885-1886;the migration of the homesteaders (the Honyockers) from about 1910  to 1922, in large portions of Montana and Wyoming; and the recession that hit farms/ranches in the 1980s. And of course the book features bios, stats, photos and poetry about the rodeo champions from Montana and Wyoming.

         RODEO COUNTRY  received the 2007 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Publishing of Cowboy Poetry.

       The author has an earlier book of cowboy western poetry, RUSSELL COUNTRY. It features poems about the Old West; and contains copies of the art of  Charlie Russell along with biographical data.
                   To Order...... email   wacobelle@msn.com
                                               Or write:
                                       Bette Wolf Duncan
                                       1755 S.E. 108th
                                       Runnells, Iowa 50237