Browse through the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering program books from 1985 to 2009.

2009 Program Book
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Theme: Our Silver Anniversary
Keynote Address by: Sandra Day O'Connor
Listen to the Keynote Address on our Cybercast (Thursday, January 29, 2009)
Poetry included in the Program Book:
Linda Hasselstrom (excerpts), Peggy Godfrey (excerpts), Bill Lowman, Henry Real Bird (back cover)

2008 Program Book 
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Theme: Grab the Future by the Horns
and The Sonoran Vaquero
Keynote Address by: Dan Dagget
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Poetry included in the Program Book: Leonardo Yañez, Jack Walther (back cover)
Special guests: KUT - Krygystan folklorists and musians

2007 Program Book
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Theme: The Ranch
Keynote Address by: Richard Louv
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Poetry included in Program Book (back cover): Bruce Kiskaddon
Special guests: The Laurent Family (Gardians of the Camargue) and The Gitano Family, gypsy musicians

2006 Program Book
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Theme: Cowboys of the Americas
Keynote Address by: Paul F. Starrs
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Poetry included in Program Book: J.B. Allen, Jose Hernandez
Special Guests: Gauchos of the Pampas, and Fisher Poets

2005 Program Book
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Theme: Across the Generations
and Cowboys of the Americas with Grupo Cimarron of Colombia
Keynote Address by: Greg Martin
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Poetry included in Program Book: Wallace McRae

2004 Program Book
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Theme: Celebrating 20 Years
and The Mongolian Horseman Exchange
Keynote Address by: David Stanley
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Poetry included in Program Book: J.B. Allen, Jonon Khongor, Larry McWhorter

2003 Program Book
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Theme: The Horse Culture
Keynote Address by: Don Hedgpeth
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Poetry included in Program Book: Wylie Gustafson, Joel Nelson, Colen H. Sweeten Jr.

2002 Program Book
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Theme: The True West
Keynote Address by: John Dofflemyer
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Poetry included in Program Book: Wallace McRae
Special Essay by Steve Zeitlin, "Poems Posted in the Wake of September 11th"

2001 Program Book
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The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Theme: The Great Basin
Keynote Address by: Waddie Mitchell
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2000 Program Book
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The Millennial Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Theme: Past, Present and Future
Keynote Address by: B. Byron Price
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Poetry included in the Program Book: Badger Clark, Paul Zarzyski

1999 Program Book
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The 15th Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Theme: England and Scotland, Roots of Cowboy Poetry and Song
and Metis Fiddle and Dance
Keynote Address by: William McDonald
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1998 Program Book
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Theme: Ireland and Wales, Roots of Cowboy Poetry and Song
Tribute to: Buck Ramsey by Hal Cannon
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Poetry included in the Program Book: Virginia Bennett, Vicar Pritchard, Buck Ramsey

1997 Program Book
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Theme: British Isles, the Roots of Cowboy Poetry and Music
Keynote Address by: Ian Tyson
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Poetry included in the Program Book: Baxter Black & Ian Tyson (cover), Don Marino, Paul Zarzyski

1996 Program Book
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Theme: The Indian Cowboy
Keynote Address by: Bess Lomax Hawes
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Poetry included in the Program Book: Henry Real Bird, Blaine Nordvold

1995 Program Book
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Theme: Indian Cowboys and Ranchers
Keynote Address by: Charlie Colombe
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Poetry included in Program Book: Henry Real Bird, Buck Ramsey
Other Special Guest(s):
Yevgeny Yevtushekno, Russian poet
Northwest Logger Poets

1994 Program Book
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The 10th Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Keynote Address by: Wallace McRae
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Poetry included in Program Book: Baxter Black, Charles Korten, Sue Wallis, Paul Zarzyski

1993 Program Book
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Theme: Vaquero Traditions
Keynote Address by: Dr. Jim Griffith
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Poetry included in Program Book: J.B. Allen, Linda Hussa (journal excerpt), Cipriano Vigil

1992 Program Book
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Theme: Honoring the Hispanic Ranching Community
Keynote Address by: Allan Savory
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Poetry included in Program Book: John Dofflemyer, Robert Swanson
Other Special Guest(s): Robert Swanson, Logger Poet

1991 Program Book
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Dedicated to: The Ranching Family
Keynote Address by: Teresa Jordan
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Poetry included in Program Book: Audrey Hankins, Henry Lawson

1990 Program Book
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Theme: Australian Exchange ~ Australian Poets
Keynote Address by: Ranald Chandler
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Poetry included in Program Book: George Essex Evans, Curley Fletcher (cover), Bruce Forbes Simpson, Vess Quinlan

1989 Program Book
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The Gathering is Five!
Keynote Address by: Kim Stafford
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Poetry included in Program Book: Jon Bowerman, Badger Clark

1988 Program Book
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Dedicated to: Gail Gardner, Living Legend
Keynote Address by: Guy Logsdon
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Poetry included in Program Book: Frank Desprez, Gail Gardner

1987 Program Book
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Dedicated to: Bruce Kiskadden, Cowboy Poet
Keynote Address by: Alan Lomax
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Poetry included in Program Book: S. Omar Barker, Bruce Kiskadden, Joel Nelson 

1986 Program Book
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Dedicated to: S. Omar Barker, A Tribute
Keynote Address by: Prof. William Kittredge
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Poetry included in Program Book: S. Omar Barker, Rod McQueary

1985 Program Book
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A Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Keynote Address by: Dr. James Griffith
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Poetry included in Program Book: Baxter Black, Gail Gardner, Wallace McRae, Georgie Sicking, Melvin L. Whipple