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Pasty Cline: A Country Career Cut Short Sep 6, 2010

Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline's career really only lasted three years — and the complete recorded output from that career lasts two hours and ten minutes — but her importance is out of proportion to those numbers.

10 million sold-2005 (Diamond Album) Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
#1 Juke Box Record "Crazy"
#1 Female Artist 1961 and 1962
#1 Song of 1962 "I Fall to Pieces"

In 1973 Patsy was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and her reputation is on record as one of the major female vocalists of all time.

A bell tower has been erected in her memory at the Shenandoah Memorial Park, where Patsy Cline is interred. Several Highways, including the Patsy Cline Memorial Highway, Route 522, and Patsy Cline Boulevard in Winchester, have been named in her honor.

Hog Eyes: The Little Horse Who Saved A Soul Sep 5, 2010: Abeautiful cowboy story, the baptism of cowboy and cowgirl Red and Claire Thompson...told by Shirley Morris.

Interview with Susie McEntire Jul 21, 2010: July 20, 2010: Diane Tribitt interviews Susie McEntire!

Who Was The REAL Prairie Rose Henderson? May 1, 2010: Oh, You Cowgirl!
By: Shirley Morris © 2008
Some remember her as "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" The greatest cowgirl of all. Others remember her for the outrageous clothes she designed and wore, bringing beauty and femininity to a tough, masculine sport and way of life. Some mourn her for her hard end... the way she died. Alone, in a horrible Wyoming blizzard in 1933.

Finally, here is Part 1of the true story about the great legend, Prairie Rose Henderson....

Susie McEntire Article Apr 1, 2010: Article by Diane Tribitt
Video clips at the end of article.

Stop by and meet Susie McEntire - one of the most captivating, wonderful, entertaining and down-to-earth women I have had the pleasure of getting to know.

Sometimes we meet someone who leaves a footprint in our life. Sometimes, if we love them, we have to let them go.

Compadres: A Cowboy Storyteller's Story Feb 21, 2010: Paul Pumpian majored in TV Writing And Production at the University of North Carolinaand went on to write for dozens of TV variety shows, industrial films and radio commercials. He’s penned 3 National Magazine short stories; a comedy album and has written material for Friar’s Roasts, Golden Boot Awards and numerous stand-up comedians. For 23 years, he was a steady contributor to the “Blondie” comic strip.

He has owned, bred, raced and shown a number of World and National Champion Appaloosa horses.

Pumpian’s years of research into the American West and the Mexican Revolutionary period of 1911-1918 led to the writing of “Compadres” where his fictional characters blend with historical personalities and events.

Bar-D Roundup: Volume Five Feb 14, 2010: The image selected as the cover for the 2010 CD,The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Five, is a circa 1940 photograph of Georgie Sicking, cowboy, poet, and Cowgirl Hall of Fame Inductee. Georgie told us it was taken at a "traveling show," when she was on her first date with the man who became her husband.

Cowboy Keeper, Margo Metegrano Feb 14, 2010: Photo credit: Roberta Rothman
Margo Metegrano of CowboyPoetry.com receives 2009 "Cowboy Keeper" award from National Day of the Cowboy.

Three outstanding recipients have been selected to receive the National Day of the Cowboy Organization’s 2009 Cowboy Keeper Award.

Dakota Livesay, Publisher of Chronicle of the Old West; Margo Metegrano, the extraordinary force behind the Bar-D Cowboy Poetry website, and The Texas Trail of Fame Organization, are each recognized with a 2009 Cowboy Keeper Award, presented by the National Day of the Cowboy 501(c)(3) Organization and its Board of Directors.

The Cowboy Keeper Award is bestowed upon individuals and organizations that make a substantial contribution to the preservation of pioneer heritage and cowboy culture. The award was conceived in support of the organization’s mission to increase awareness for the Day of the Cowboy; a day of heritage celebration proclaimed by Congress, state legislatures, and governors each July since 2005.

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Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image Exhibition Feb 8, 2010: This is an article on the brand new Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image exhibition that will be displayed from February 12th through September 6th, 2010, at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. This exhibition is significant for the Museum, as it is the first history museum to ever curate a Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition and it is the first time in nearly a decade that a major O’Keeffe show has been presented in the state of Texas.

This exhibition includes many personal artifacts, camping equipment and paintings that have never been seen before by the public. This union of artistry and personal belongings is recognized nationally as an endeavor that harbors the art and geography in an effort to understand how O’Keeffe explored the American West through camping and hiking in a variety of environments.

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Anne West Feb 7, 2010: Meet Anne West, woman and artist extraordinaire!

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