Wally McRae
Wally McRae (born 1936) is a rancher, an American cowboy, a cowboy poet and philosopher. He runs the 30,000-acre (120 km2) Rocker Six Cattle Co. ranch on Rosebud Creek south of Forsyth Montana.
[edit] Biography
Wally McRae attended grade school and high school at nearby Colstrip, Montana. He graduated from Montana State University in 1958 in zoology and chemistry.[1]
He received the Governor's Award for the Arts in Montana and the 1990 National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award.[1][2] He was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve on the National Council of the Arts. The Missoulian has listed Wally as #42 in the Most Influential Montanans of the Century.[3]
The American journalist Charles Kuralt discusses McRae's efforts to preserve the land and the cowboy way of life in the small community in his book, Charles Kuralt's America.[4] The poem Things of Intrinsic Worth appears in this interview.
[edit] Bibliography
- Stick Horses and Other Stories of Ranch Life
- Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
- Up North is Down the Crick: Poems
[edit] References
- ^ a b Montana State University article
- ^ National Endowment for the Arts
- ^ "100 Most Influential Montanans of the Century". The Missoulian Newspaper. http://www.missoulian.com/specials/100montanans/list/042.html. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ Charles Kuralt, "Charles Kuralt's America," Anchor Books, published by Doubleday, 1995. pp. 205-208.
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