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Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born 1950 in Elko County, Nevada) is an American cowboy poet. He sometimes performs his poems with a guitarist playing in the background.
Theaterworks, Colorado Springs professional theater company, presents Waddie Mitchell, A Cowboy Christmas Carol; 16 highly entertaining performances of Waddie’s de-arrangement of Charles Dicken’s Christmas classic.
Mar 22, 2021 · Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born in 1950) grew up on a ranch near the Ruby Mountains south of Elko, Nevada. Much of his material can be attributed to the stories and songs influence by Western lore that he heard from his father and local cowboys. Young Mitchell absorbed the tales.
Jul 17, 2010 · This year, True West named Waddie Mitchell “Best Living Cowboy Poet.” Since 1984, this lifelong working cowboy has put out more than six solo albums of cowboy poetry and stories. He’s also one of the founders of the prestigious Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.
Waddie Mitchell - Western Folklife TV. Waddie Mitchell was immersed in the cowboy way of entertaining as a boy on the Nevada ranches where his father worked. The art of spinning tales in rhyme and meter about a rich lifestyle of pushing cows and living off the land came to be called cowboy poetry.
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Summary. Bruce Douglas Mitchell, a native Nevadan, goes by the nickname his father gave him, Waddie, which is early twentieth century slang for "cowboy." He grew up on working ranches in Elko County, Nevada, among storytellers who cultivated conversation as a pastime because there was no electricity for television and poor radio reception.
