Red Steagall brings the cowboy way of life to the public through many different media, including poetry. His poetry speaks in its own right, possessing a musical, songlike quality. His lilting rhythms carry the reader through the journey that each poem represents. Steagall's poems chart the changing of the land and the passing of generations, but they rest on the solid ground of a steady faith.

2004 Will Rogers Medallion for Outstanding Achievement in the Publishing of Cowboy PoetryJourneying into the rugged breaks that skirt the eastern rim of the Llano Estacado West Texas ranch country at once attractive and repellent to the uninitiated Steagall and Hagler prove unequivocally that verse and image are kindred spirits. According to B. Byron Price, director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, they have succeeded in unifying poetry and photography, allowing us to understand and interpret the essence of a solitary land and its proud inhabitants....

Photographer Wyman Meinzer and author Henry Chappell defining study of the 6666 Ranch.

Quintille Firman grew up dirt-poor on a Texas Panhandle homestead during the Dust Bowl era. In l931, she and a dozen friends experienced a special Christmas pageant at their schoolhouse in Tascosa that included a frightening blizzard. While the story, retold by her daughter Casandra, centers around one memorable incident, readers will feel the stunning strength and firm resolve these children of the Great Depression exhibited every day. Into this novella seeps hints of fathers who deserted, grim-faced mothers who stayed and children who could afford only one pencil for the school year. There...

Red Steagall's weekly radio program, "Cowboy Corner," has been on the air for more than ten years and is carried on 175 radio stations across the country.

A major feature of each show is Red's interview with his guest that week. They talk about the West, about cowboys, about horses, about history. It is always a conversation between friends who share mutual interests and mutual acquaintances, and in the course of these conversations the listener learns about Western heritage, Western traditions, and Western values.

With the assistance of editor Loretta Fulton, Red has compiled the...

Journeying into West Texas ranch country, Steagall and Hagler prove unequivocally that verse and image are kindred spirits. "Born to This Land" examines traditions passed from generation to generation and explores the impact of cowboying on those who choose it as a way of life. Drawing us into their rich depiction of ranch life, Steagall and Hagler transcend prevailing convention and prowl the remote ranges that lie beyond the deeply rutted main trails, listening for elusive, authentic voices carried on the wind."