For some, the joy of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering begins early in Elko. Volunteers arrive in the days before the event with all sorts of creativity and specialty skills to help the Western Folklife Center with production. Here we take a look at the main stage set construction at the Elko ...

Join us as we look back at what happened on the first day of the 39th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Doug Groves and his assistants guided students in creating a handsome set of leather reins complete with a 12-strand rawhide romal during the Rawhide Braiding workshop in the Si...

Join us as we look back at what happened on the second day of the 39th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Rawhide Braiding workshop participants share what it means to be part of the community that has grown around the annual class while folks over at the DLC are learning to mix a ...

Join us as we look back at what happened on the third day of the 39th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Students in Doris Daley's poetry workshop talk about why they write and across town Basque cooking workshop participants whip up a mean paella. Later that night, staff and artis...

The fourth day of the Gathering kicks off with the Charlotte S. Bigham Cowkids Stampede with Wylie and the Wild West performing two shows for nearly 2,000 Elko school children. Later that night, we visit the Basque House for dinner ad a dance performance. Wylie stops by again over at the Elko Con...

Thursday kicks off with the Painted Horse drum group followed by California rancher Jeff Mundell's keynote address. Preparations for the night shows are underway in the G Three Bar Theater and at the Elko Convention Center's auditorium. Includes interviews with Geno Delafose and Yvonne Hollenbeck...