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Article: RANGE WRITERS/ Once considered a man's domain, some women have stepped up to express their feelings on the American West through the rhythms and rhymes of cowboy poetry. But don't expect these veterans of ranches and farms to be looking for words to rhyme with "lace"
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 19, 1994
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They're tough-talking, sassy-mouthed Western women. And they tell
the story of the American West as they see it.
They're the women who write cowboy poetry, that rhyming chronicle
glorifying the Western mystique, mainly from the cowboy's point of
view.
But don't call these women cowgirls.
Their view may be from the kitchen, the cabbage patch and the
kid's room - necessary but often ignored aspects of traditionally
male-dominated ranch or farm life. But they agree theirs is not a
cowgirl's life - it's the life of a woman cowboy.
These women cowboy poets also agree the view they bring to cowboy
poetry is an important counterpoint to the traditional male
perspective.
The male and female ...