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conversations.value: a title for a book about Director, Folklife, Western with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Real Singing Cowboys'
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conversations.value: The Real Singing Cowboys
  All during this time Linda continued to pursue music, performing with the Thistle Sisters, who did cowboy songs as well as old-time music and gospel; with the bluegrass group the Pine Creek Ramblers; and with the cowboy band New Frontier. In 2005 the US State Department sent Linda, along with Hal Cannon and Ron Kane, to Kyrgyzstan to represent American cowboy music as part of its cultural exchange programs; in 2011 she traveled to Afghanistan with Gail Steiger; and in 2013 she went to Turkmenistan with Hal Cannon, Gail Steiger, and Andy Hedges. Linda and Boojum Expeditions also facilitated "cowboy to cowboy" exchange programs to Mongolia, Brazil, Argentina, France, and Spain for the Western Folklife Center and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
  Linda still lives in Bozeman with her horses, husband, and cats. She and Kent are in the process of turning Boojum over to their Mongolian staff, thereby making Boojum Expeditions a solely Mongolian owned and operated company. She sings with a couple of different local bands and spends her time horseback in the mountain ranges of southwest Montana.
  Caitlyn Leigh Taussig was born in Kremmling, Colorado, in, 1986, the fourth generation of Taussigs in Grand County. The Taussig family had a hotel in downtown Denver but came up north and bought property on Ute Pass in the late 1800s. They bought a ranch that is now under the tailings pond for a molybdenum mill. They raised and showed Herefords all over the country, and her dad would ride the train cars with the cattle. They had a couple of different ranches down the Williamsfork Valley, and Caitlyn grew up on one of them. When she was fourteen her dad and his brother sold that ranch and split up. Her part of the family ended up on a ranch north of Kremmling, where she now runs cow-calf pairs with her mother and sister. Caitlyn started riding when she was five, already helping with the ranch work, and has been at it ever since. Today she trains horses in the Californio tradition and is the county 4-H coordinator.
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conversations.value: The Real Singing Cowboys
  All during this time Linda continued to pursue music, performing with the Thistle Sisters, who did cowboy songs as well as old-time music and gospel; with the bluegrass group the Pine Creek Ramblers; and with the cowboy band New Frontier. In 2005 the US State Department sent Linda, along with Hal Cannon and Ron Kane, to Kyrgyzstan to represent American cowboy music as part of its cultural exchange programs; in 2011 she traveled to Afghanistan with Gail Steiger; and in 2013 she went to Turkmenistan with Hal Cannon, Gail Steiger, and Andy Hedges. Linda and Boojum Expeditions also facilitated "cowboy to cowboy" exchange programs to Mongolia, Brazil, Argentina, France, and Spain for the Western Folklife Center and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
  Linda still lives in Bozeman with her horses, husband, and cats. She and Kent are in the process of turning Boojum over to their Mongolian staff, thereby making Boojum Expeditions a solely Mongolian owned and operated company. She sings with a couple of different local bands and spends her time horseback in the mountain ranges of southwest Montana.
  Caitlyn Leigh Taussig was born in Kremmling, Colorado, in, 1986, the fourth generation of Taussigs in Grand County. The Taussig family had a hotel in downtown Denver but came up north and bought property on Ute Pass in the late 1800s. They bought a ranch that is now under the tailings pond for a molybdenum mill. They raised and showed Herefords all over the country, and her dad would ride the train cars with the cattle. They had a couple of different ranches down the Williamsfork Valley, and Caitlyn grew up on one of them. When she was fourteen her dad and his brother sold that ranch and split up. Her part of the family ended up on a ranch north of Kremmling, where she now runs cow-calf pairs with her mother and sister. Caitlyn started riding when she was five, already helping with the ranch work, and has been at it ever since.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'Cowboy, singer, and songwriter Rod Taylor currently cowboys on the Philmont Ranch, near Cimarron, New Mexico, which is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America'.
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conversations.value: Cowboy, singer, and songwriter Rod Taylor currently cowboys on the Philmont Ranch, near Cimarron, New Mexico, which is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Although the emphasis is on scouting, Philmont remains a working cattle ranch. Philmont has about 300 horses, 250 cows, 100 burros, and 100 buffalo on 137,000 acres. Rod is responsible for the cowherd and lends a hand with the additional livestock. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, Rod started his cowboy career while in high school and college at both the C Bar and Philmont Ranches. After taking a stab at college, he left home to pursue the cowboy life. He worked at the Vermejo Park, TO, UU, and Little Horn Ranches before ending up back at the Philmont Ranch in 1983, where he has been ever since.
  Rod started singing early in church and school choirs, and both of his parents were music lovers. He got his first guitar when he was in the sixth grade, and in high school he and some friends formed a band. "We played bluegrass music," he says. "We played rock and roll. We played country music. We played folk music." Rod counts as influences everyone from Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, and Bob Wills to Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and fellow Lubbock musicians Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Joe Ely. After moving to New Mexico, his musical activity was mostly sitting in for a few numbers on weekends with bands in Taos and Red River. Then, in the late 1980s, he decided to get more serious, and he started playing some solo gigs at various cowboy poetry and music events and sites, including the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas; the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; the Nara Visa Cowboy Gathering in New Mexico; and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. In 1990 he recorded and released Ridin' Down the Canyon. Not long after, he and some friends formed a band called the Rounders that appeared in the Martin Scorsese film The Hi-Lo Country. In 2002 Rod's present band, the Rifters, was formed, playing what they call "acoustic southwestern Americana" music. Today Rod continues to live with his wife, Patty, at the Philmont Ranch and perform both solo and with the Rifters.
  Singer, songwriter, and rancher Ian Dawson Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1933, and grew up in Duncan, British Columbia. When he was nineteen Ian "caught the rodeo fever" and started riding bareback broncs. In 1956 a bronc threw him and stepped on his ankle and shattered it. He spent some time in the hospital recovering from the accident. To while away the time he borrowed a guitar from another patient in the room and started trying to learn to play. Ian made his singing debut at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver, Britsh Columbia, in 1956 and played with a rock 'n' roll band, the Sensational Stripes.
  Ian graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1958 and worked for a while as a commercial artist in Toronto. Coincidentally, he arrived just in time for the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He met Sylvia Fricker, and they formed the popular folk duo Ian and Sylvia and toured North America, playing the music circuits. The two eventually married. In 1969 they formed and fronted the group the Great Speckled Bird, a proto-country-rock band. Beginning in 1970 the duo also began hosting a television show, Nashville North, which became The Ian Tyson Show when the couple split up in the middle of the decade. Ian gave the Nashville, Tennessee, music scene a try but was disillusioned and moved back to Alberta. He took a job as a ranch hand at the Pincher Creek Ranch for a couple of years, occasionally playing for rodeos. In 1978 Neil Young recorded a cover of the Ian and Sylvia folk hit "Four Strong Winds," and Ian was able to buy the T-Bar-Y Ranch near Longview, Alberta. He devoted most of his time to working with cutting horses and cattle. In 1985 Ian was invited to Elko for Nevada's first Cowboy Poetry Gathering. There he met some of the authentic cowboys who were singing and reciting cowboy poetry, and he felt encouraged to increase his focus on writing songs about cowboy life and the contemporary West.
  National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Wrangler Award for Outstanding Original Western Composition, "Bob Fudge," 2002
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'Hub suffered a gunshot wound in his right leg when he was eighteen, and his leg had to be amputated above the knee'.
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conversations.value: Hub suffered a gunshot wound in his right leg when he was eighteen, and his leg had to be amputated above the knee. He tried college for a year after that but went back to ranch work. Hub continued to work on ranches and drifted to Arizona in the fall of 1979, where he spent almost a year working on a ranch near Globe. "I thought I was a pretty good cowboy until I got to Arizona. I had never been in the brush, and I learned real quick that just because you saw them didn't mean you had them." Hub drifted up to Montana, worked on some ranches there, and eventually wound up in Cody, Wyoming, and started guiding big game hunters every fall. "I guided every fall for fifteen years straight, and some of the years, I hired on working the spring bear hunts, would pack people in to fishing camps all summer, and then guide all fall."
  I can remember the neighbors coming over, and some of them would bring along a guitar, and would sit and sing. I grew up listening to everything from "Little Joe the Wrangler" to "Crazy Arms." I liked it all, and I can still remember my dad singing "Tying the Knots in the Devil's Tail" when I was two or three years old. I grew up around all those old cowboy songs, and I thought everybody knew them. It was only after I started going to Cowboy Songs and Range Ballads in Cody, Wyoming, that I found out it was considered "art" or "folk music," and people were willing to pay good money to listen to me sing them. I was tickled to death.
  Hub traveled from 1990 through 1993, playing music full time. During the summer of 1992, he opened for Chris LeDoux in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, and during the next few years, Hub appeared on stage with such acts as Baxter Black, Riders of the Purple Sage, Jean Prescott, and Brenn Hill. An accomplished songwriter, Hub has won awards from American Songwriter magazine for his compositions "One More Rodeo" and "When the Nighthawk Hollered Horses." His music has been recorded by artists in Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Today he is writing songs and poetry and performing throughout the year. Hub has released two CDs, and his son Tucker is now following in Hub's footsteps. He still rides and works cattle, and he and Tucker are playing music together. Hub got bucked off and cracked some ribs in the spring of 2015, after which he said, "I have never been hurt bad in a horse wreck 'til now, and that includes the three times I've been hung up and drug! I got back on and finished that day's ride, and I kept riding every day that spring, but I took it pretty easy. I'm sixty years old, and the ground just isn't soft anymore."
  Charlie Seemann is the executive director emeritus of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada. He holds an MA in folklife studies from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was an instructor in folklore and folk music at Moorpark College in California for six years, and then he worked as a folklorist and director of the Western Regional Folklife Festival for the National Park Service/Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco until 1981. He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was deputy director at the Country Music Foundation/Country Music Hall of Fame for twelve years. He served as program director of the Fund for Folk Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, before assuming the executive director position at the Western Folklife Center in 1998. He retired in 2014.