Dakota
by Bette Duncan
The Cowboy Western Poetry
of
THE RANGE WRITERS
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The Range Writers features cowboy and bush poetry of a bygone era that is of such enduring excellence that it is considered a classic; but The Range Writers is also proud to feature contemporary poems and poets that are TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN. This web site is dedicated to the cowboy poets, past and present, who rode the range on their pens and helped to preserve the spirit and memory of the Old West. In a poem written in 1917, Charles M. Russell said this:
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CONTEMPORARY POETS
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by Bette Duncan
The Louisiana Territory, purchased for less than 5¢ an acre, was one of Thomas Jefferson's greatest contributions to his country. It doubled the size of the United States literally overnight, without a war or the loss of a single American life. Dakota presents a bird’s eye view of the transition of a segment of the Louisiana Purchase into the states of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Dakota offers historical data meshed with Western poetry, with each one of the book’s twenty-three poems contributing a relevant insight. Topics covered include subjects ranging from the Civil War in Montana, to the "Big Die-Up"of 1886-1887, to the myth and reality of the American West, to the end of the homesteading era. According to the author, Dakota is more than a collection of Western verse- it is a raft with twenty-three supporting logs that has skimmed o’er the river of Western history. Dakota paints a picture of the real west and some of its magnificent people.
The author, Bette Wolf Duncan, was born and raised in southeastern Montana. She is the granddaughter of Montana homesteaders, and the great-granddaughter of some of the earliest settlers in North Dakota’s Red River Valley. Her late husband’s grandfather was one of the early ranchers in eastern Montana.
ISBN 13 (TP):
978-1-4568-5365-5
ISBN 13 (HB): 978-1-4568-5366-2
ISBN 13 (eBook):
978-1-4568-5367-9
or contact the author:
Bette Wolf Duncan
1755 S.E. 108th Street: Runnells, Iowa 50237
Tel. 1-515-966-2461
email -
wacobelle@msn.com
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Rodeo Country
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This
collection of cowboy poetry is an echo of
the stories Bette Wolf Duncan heard as a
granddaughter of early Montana and North
Dakota pioneers. The Old West poems contain
memories of a time when the great buffalo
herds still thundered through the valleys,
when Cheyenne and Crow still camped around
the Yellowstone River, when mountain men and
cowboys, prospectors and miners, rustlers
and vigilantes still populated Russell
Country. The New West poems concern
contemporary cowboy life. Russell
Country features the art of Charlie
Russell, Frederick Remington and N. C. Wyeth.
It was published by Hancock House
Publishers.
