The Ride

About the Book

This is a collection of poems from the sometimes fertile mind and occasional vivid imagination of Keith Rounds spawned by experience in and yearning for the cowboy culture. They include lots of stuff about cowboys, what they did, who they are and how they fit. Some are written in the pre-automobile mode, others are about modern cowboys. There are also sections about Rounds’ friends and relatives, and about his work at the Wyoming State House of Representatives. These too are in the cowboy-poetry style, that is, with rhyme and meter; without which, it ain’t Cowboy Poetry.

About the Author

Keith Rounds has been involved with Cowboy Poetry since the early 1990’s, and has been performing it in several venues in Wyoming and Colorado. A love for the cowboy culture and experiences growing up in Wyoming has provided the impetus for his Cowboy Poetry. He is a Wyoming native with roots that go back to the 1840’s when his father’s maternal great-grand parents settled in Southwest Wyoming. He attended schools in Granger, Green River and Laramie and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism at the University of Wyoming in 1964.