Pete Cameron
Cowboy Poet

"His voice seemed to warm the cold morning air as the following nine stanzas fell into place alongside the rhythm of the horses hooves in the snow. Besides Smokey and Dan, his only audience was his two border collies Queenie and Kai, the Gros Ventre Mountains, and me."

So wrote Lisa Flood for the Jackson Hole News, January 1990, in a feature article about Pete Cameron — "The Longfellow of Bondurant".

Cowboy poets are a breed apart. Regaling and entertaining, they tell their tales and record history in a land ever-encroached upon by modernism:

But you've got him surrounded
Admiring his romantic way of life,
Why he's the reason you moved here,
Leaving behind that smog, noise and strife.

Pete Cameron
Wyoming Rancher, Cowboy Poet