Wally McRae

Wally McRae

Wally McRae (born 1936) is a rancher, an American cowboy, a poet and philosopher.

Wally McRae runs the Rocker Six Cattle Co. ranch on [http://www.rosebudmontana.com/ Rosebud Creek] south of Forsyth Montana. McRae attended grade school and high school at nearby Colstrip, Montana. He graduated from Montana State University in 1958 in zoology and chemistry. He is famous for his contributions to Cowboy poetry. One of his more famous poems is [http://www.montana.edu/news/1118776364.html Reincarnation] .

He also received the Governor's Award for the Arts in Montana, received the 1990 National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award, and was nominated by President Clinton to serve on the National Council of the Arts.

Watch

Video of McRae on his ranch reciting his poem [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHcjUdenEc "Things of Intrinsic Worth"]

ee also

*Cowboy poetry

External links

* [http://www.montana.edu/news/1118776364.html Montana State University Article on Wally McRae]
* [http://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=1990_08 Nationlal Heritage Fellowship awarded to Wally McRae] by US Government National Endowment of the Arts in 1990


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