The truth about cowboy culture? The West's new storytellers want to focus on authenticity, emphasizing their connections to the land.
Ranching is a sobering enterprise, frequently characterized by frustration and financial insecurity. Winters are bitter, summers are sweltering and drought threatens acres of pasture land across the West.
Gene Veeder, a cattle rancher and musician from North Dakota who attended the festival with his daughter Jessie, said music has helped him keep his family afloat at different times, especially when Jessie was an infant. During the 1980s, he made about $200 a week from gigs — enough for groceries. Decades ago Gene encouraged his daughter to leave the ranch, to see what other possibilities were out there., he told her. So, at 16, Jessie began touring locally with her guitar. After high school, she left for a decade: first for college, when she toured the country performing, then for stints living in Minnesota and Montana.
Brigid Reedy and brother Johnny Reedy perform during the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 3. The Reedys have been coming to the gathering since they were children.Brigid Reedy, left, dances with Tom Morton during the “Midnight Dance” at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 4.
Brigid evidences a strong sense of place: “We could be doing a song from the ‘20s or something from Ireland or a little mariachi tune, but because it goes through the filter of how we’ve been brought up and our perception of the world, it all becomes, in essence, cowboy music by the time we’re done.”under the name Ismay, lived on their mother’s ranch in rural Petaluma, caring for sheep and restoring creek habitat in areas that had been overgrazed.
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