Cowboy Poetry, The Campfire Ain't Quite Out
by Kent Stockton

The Campfire Ain't Quite Out is the story in verse of a modern-day rancher and his compadres, those hard-working men and women who live by "the code." Tales of the big-hearted community of ranching families come alive in the poetry of the Stockton family.

Kent Stockton finds humor in learnin' to rope and delights in discoverin' the ways of cattle and horses. His emotional stories of favorite animals, old friends, and children send these poems straight to the reader's heart and soul.

The modern-day cowboy is not gone or forgotten. As a friend of Kent's puts it so well, "you just can't see him from the road." The fire burns brightly on the plains and in the mountains where the cowboy roams.

A definite addition to your collection of Cowboy Poetry.

2007

2007

Kent began writing cowboy poetry in the seventies and first attended the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering in 1987, then went back home and organized the Wyoming Cowboy Poetry Roundup, which had a very successful run from 1987-1999. He has been a featured and state cowboy poet at the Elko Gathering several different years, and his work has been published in a number of western publications, including Western Horseman, Dry Crik Review, Cowboy, American Cowboy, Range, and Bugle magazines, and two anthologies: Cattle, Horses, Sky & Grass, and Cowboy Poetry: the Reunion.

Kent and Mary Margaret Stockton operate a small Texas Longhorn cow-calf outfit and attempt to train cow horses on their place a few miles out of Riverton, Wyoming.