Earl Alonzo Brininstool

Earl Alonzo Brininstool (1870-1957) was a cowboy poet, but was not a working cowboy.

E. A. Brininstool, as he preferred to be known, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3FFw-NTAu2cC&pg=PR15&dq=Earl+Brininstool+cowboy+poet+-wikipedia&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U3hTf_ACZSmxlbkltnaUUYU_T9YRw Introduction to "Troopers with Custer"] ] was born in Warsaw, New York on October 11, 1870. He lived most his life in Los Angeles, rubbed elbows with Will Rogers and Charles Russell, who met regularly as part of a western artists group at the University Club in LA. He is best known for "Trail Dust of a Maverick" (1914) and "Bozeman Trail" (1922). [Calistro, Cowboy Love Poetry, Angel City Press (1994)]

Brininstool was a prolific author on the subject of Indian Wars, especially on Little Big Horn.

Brininstool died on July 28 1957.

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