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| American Cowboy Culture Association |
Contact: Alvin G. Davis
4124 62nd Dr.
Lubbock, TX 79413-5116
Phone: 806-795-2455
Fax: 806-795-4749
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Purpose is to promote all areas of cowboy culture; sponsors events relating to cowboys; sponsors National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration - held in September in Lubbock, TX.
The National Cowboy Symposium is part of an American folklore revival that had its beginning in 1985 when Hal Cannon and other folklorists from our western states started the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. The second such event was the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering that was started in 1987 on the campus of Sul Ross State University at Alpine, Texas. Other events were started at Prescott, Arizona in 1988 and Roswell, New Mexico in 1989. In 1987 Alvin G. Davis participated in the event at Alpine, Texas as a cowboy poet and determined at the time to start a comparable event at Lubbock, Texas. He, with a group of other like minded folks, put the Symposium together June 2-4, 1989 on the Campus of Texas Tech University at Lubbock.
In addition to the daily literary sessions, the Symposium also included evening performances, exhibits and activities such as a book fair, arts and crafts, gear and trappings, music, cutting and roping. Among the participants in the first event were writers Elmer Kelton, John Erickson, and Max Evans; cowboy poets Baxter Black, Paul Patterson and Clay Lindley; western artists Tom Ryan, Gary Morton, Keith Avery and Clay Dahlberg; rodeo cowboys Toots Mansfield, Larry Mahan, Jim Shoulders, and Harry Tompkins; ranch managers from the Pitchfork, 6666, Waggoner and Bell ranches; working cowboys Tom Blasingame, John Gaither and Buster McLaury; horse trainer Ray Hunt; western musicians Red Steagal, Don Edwards, Frankie McWhorter, Buck Ramsey, R.W.Hampton and Ray Reed and cowboy cartoonist Ace Reid. |
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