These are just a few very random selections
of all the many cowboy and cowgirl
sites out on the cyber-range:
WMA
- The Western
Music Association
- dedicated to preserving and advancing the history, literature,
and
performance of Western Music. Anyone with an interest in cowboy music
should
be a member of this great non-profit organization. Quarterly magazine
chock
full of information and tour schedules, and a terrific festival every
November
at Old Tucson Studios in Tucson AZ. Regional chapters have been formed
in several states.
Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch
- Cowboy poetry and the best calendar of national cowboy events out
there.
Gene Autry - the official Gene
Autry website.
Gene Auty
Oklahoma Museum
- Great annual Western music and film festival every September, in
honor
of Autry's birthday. The location is an old schoolhouse that is now a
spectacular
museum of movie cowboy memorabilia. Also check out the original Cow-Boy.com
website, started by the late Bruce Dillman.
Roy Rogers - the official Roy
Rogers website.
Bob Nolan/Sons of the
Pioneers - LOTS of excellent historic and musical
information about one of the foundingmembers of the Sons of the Pioneers.
National Cowgirl
Museum
and Hall
of Fame - Fort Worth, Texas.
National
Festival of The
West - March event with cowboy poetry and music, vendors and
arena
events.
Wild West Days - Wisconsin's best
Western event, with western music, reenactments, vendors and an old
west town. Always the third weekend of August.
Midwest Horse
Fair
- Annual event held in Madison Wisconsin. Everything about horses
including
seminars, shows, vendors and entertainment. Not a "Horse Show" - but a
"Horse Fair"!
Richard Slatta -
Links to Cowboy
sites - Richard Slatta, a.k.a "The Cowboy Perfessor" at North
Carolina
State U., has created a very interesting resource site with a great
variety
of western links with an emphasis on the history of the west, Latin
American
history, and research links.
Midwest Rangers
Cowboy Mounted
Shooting Club - A sport developed in Arizona under the rules of
the Cowboy Mounted
Shooting
Association, combines action pistol shooting, barrel racing and
Old West reenactment. "The most fun you can have with a horse and a
gun!"
Working Cowboy
- A directory with listings of Cowboy and Western Artists.
Randy's
Recording and Production
- This studio was built in 1985 for the purpose of providing
professional
recording to the working musician, at a price that a working musician
could
afford. A great quality studio right here in Wisconsin - we have worked
with Randy on our last 3 recording projects and highly recommend his
studio!