Tag: Fin Bayles

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Cowboy Characters in Canyon Country (An Excerpt)…by Bob McPherson

by stiles • February 3, 2019 • 0 Comments

In 1956, Irving Stone published Men to Match My Mountains: The Monumental Saga of the Winning of the American Far West with a chapter named “Giants Stalk the Land.” Both titles are appropriate, in modified form, for this chapter. Here…

Cowboying in Canyon Country: The Life and Rhymes of Fin Bayles, Cowboy Poet (An Excerpt)…by Bob McPherson

by stiles • December 2, 2018 • 1 Comment

Small rural towns in the American West have a talent for incubating distinct personalities whom city folk call “local characters” or “colorful individuals” while town members express their appreciation with grins and tales of exploits and recognition. Blanding, a town…