Monday, April 11, 2011

Cowboy Poetry for NYT

The Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nev., has been the recent subject of budget wars in Washington. They put on the annual Cowboy Poetry Festival and have a huge archive of cowboy-related documents and media. They only receive a small amount of their funding from federal sources but politicians have used it in their tug of war between left and right nevertheless. Story here.
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