At the service celebrating the life of revered Western artist Harold T. Holden, troubadour R.W. Hampton—his longtime friend and one of the presenters when Holden was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners and given the bronze Wrangler Award he himself sculpted — sang the hymns “In the Shadow of the Cross” and “How Great Thou Art” and his own ballad “Born to Be a Cowboy.”
“There are so many great stories about H, but one of my favorites, which is coming full circle now, is when he met Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton as a 5-year-old,” says his wife of nearly 35 years, Edna Mae Holden. “It seems fitting that at the time of his death he was working on this sculpture of his idol that he had met 78 years earlier.” Following Holden’s passing on
