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Gail Burton, Cowboy Poet - Historian - Story Teller
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Gail "GT" Burton grew up in the small town of Temple
in Southwest Oklahoma. A 1951 graduate of Oklahoma A & M College,
he worked as a fire protection engineer for a major insurance company
before retiring in central Arkansas where: "they have trees
and I can speak the language."
His poetic style is short and to the point without a lot of frills,
easily read and something you'll want to share; he feels that the
title poet is a bit pretentious. Burton is a life-long student
of western lore, a compulsive piddler, versifier n'sometimes poet
with heart, soul and a funny bone.
Burton participates in cowboy poetry gatherings from Texas to Montana
and has been a featured poet in THE TOMBSTONE EPITAPH,
The National Newspaper of the Old West, since 1988.
Works by GT. Burton include the book COW PIES & CandleLights,
a collection of 84 cowboy & country poems and the album containing
25 tracks from the book, Charity, a collection of 62 religious,
romantic & Christmas poems and The Adventures of Randy
Jones and Booger Red: volume 1a collection of the first
75 poems carried as a series in THE TOMBSTONE EPITAPH.
"Burton is a poet But what he writes serves to do more than
reveal what is in his sout It also helps preserve a long gone era
— the day of the Old West Cowboy" — Dan Daily - The
Benton Courier February 21, 1997.
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