The Cowboy Gathering has been a staple of fall in Durango for over 35 years. This year, the four-day Western heritage festival is adding a Horseback Social. On Saturday, Oct. 5, from 8 to 10 a.m., ...

The Durango Cowboy Gathering, known as “the largest nonmotorized parade in Colorado,” brought all it’s got on Saturday morning on Main Avenue where hundreds of residents and visitors filled the ...

Terry Nash’s most requested poem is “A Cowman’s Lot.” “I can never do a gathering without reciting that poem,” Nash said. It’s about a heifer giving birth to her first calf and the cowboy watching ...

Cowboys and cowgirls came together for the 13th Annual Lost N Lava Cowboy Gathering on Friday afternoon. The public was welcomed with several arts and craft booths along with food vendors and of ...

Cowboy poets from across the country have announced their plans to attend the annual winter gathering in Elko, Nev. The coming winter gathering is the nation’s greatest celebration of the American ...

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 ...

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Johnny Reedy, left, and sister Brigid Reedy dance together at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 4. (Bridget Bennett / For The Times) In a high school gymnasium, three hours ...

HAGERMAN • Utah band SaddleStrings is busy with performances every week — some years, from late February to October. But they set aside a weekend each year just for the Hagerman Cowboy Poetry ...

On a January morning in northern Nevada, cowgirl Marinna Mori stood in a snow covered corral beckoning her horse Hollywood with a bucket of grain. At age 10, Mori is the fourth generation to live on ...

ELKO, Nev. — In a high school gymnasium, three hours from Salt Lake and seven from Las Vegas, the throaty warble of a fiddle competed with the sound of cowboy boots squeaking on wood. Men ...