Cowboy Tradition: Poems From the Heart is about ordinary people who spent their lives living and working the land on the Camas Prairie. These poems are based on real people from the author’s memories of growing up in Nezperce, Idaho and about family members who have passed on and left their stories in the author’s care. Some of the characters like Charley are fictional, but could have very easily existed in the past.
This is a tribute to all the vaqueros, Californios, buckaroos, and cowboys who are still out there working the herds in the traditional way. You are the folks keeping alive a way of life that is fast disappearing into folklore.
“Country Music created by Indian artists is in non-rhyming, four-line stanzas. It tells a simple, non-embellished story and gets done. This material strikes me as being in that style.” — Review, Summer 2014, The Western Way
GusGus Press
180 pp. ● 6×9
$10.95 (pb) ● $5.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-934452-87-5 (pb)
POETRY – Cowboy
POETRY – American – General
POETRY – Native American
POETRY – Women Authors
T.K. Galarneau was born and raised in North Central Idaho in a small farming and ranching community called Nezperce where she graduated in 1969. She received a BS degree in English and History from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston in 1973. Terrie taught English and Reading in the Lewiston school district until moving to California in 2001 to continue her teaching career. She now makes her home in the Bay Area with two dogs, three cats, and two horses. When she’s not teaching or writing, she spends most of her time riding.