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Is it cowboy poetry if it’s not written by a cowboy? - The Nevada Independent

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Justin Reichert started the Outside Circle, a two-night show held at a Basque restaurant in Elko, Nevada. Each year, the setlist includes talented musicians and poets, with one catch: They have to have grown up on a ranch or be actively working as a cowboy.

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Is it cowboy poetry if it’s not written by a cowboy? - The Nevada Independent

When Justin Reichert was 18, he caught a ride with a friend from his family’s farm in McPherson, Kansas, to Elko, Nevada, 1,200 miles away. It was 1992, the seventh year of Elko’s National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, a series of readings and musical performances created to celebrate all the Westerners whose lives revolve around raising cattle. Reichert had never been to the event, which its fans call, simply, “the gathering,” but he’d heard a lot …

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