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Les Hampton
Having just completed a twenty-year career in the navy, the author’s primary objective was to find work and to get away from the crowds, traffic, and general congestion of the cities and seaports. ...view moreHaving just completed a twenty-year career in the navy, the author’s primary objective was to find work and to get away from the crowds, traffic, and general congestion of the cities and seaports. When a job offer to work at a newly constructed coal-fired power plant in Craig, Colorado, population nine thousand, was received, this seemed to fit the bill. After having settled in to this new job and community, a house fire caused him to start looking for a new residence. His search ended when he discovered, with the help of a realtor, the bunkhouse at Elkhead Creek. A ranch property located by a reservoir. Later an opportunity became available, due to technology and the adaptation of distance- learning techniques, to complete a once-pursued-but-long-forgotten college degree, and then an opportunity to study for his masters. Is life good or what? During this period of hyper activity that included work, attending classes, studying, writing papers, and just trying to survive an insane pace, the author discovers an entirely new art form, at least to him, cowboy poetry. Having been introduced to poetry during his early years of education, and basically dismissing it, he now finds he really connects with this stuff. Unlike most of the poetry that he was exposed to during his earlier years, here is storytelling that uses common language, is fun, interesting, and uncomplicated. In time, the author begins to take incidents from the past and present-day events and spinning them into his own version of this new art form. To paraphrase one of the cowboy poets that he has met over the years, “Once this stuff gets a grip on your mind, it is easier to write it down than it is to forget it.” view less
Books by Les Hampton
The Bunkhouse at Elkhead Creek: Stories and Verse of Present-Day Life and Living in Northwest Colorado