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Bill Lowman, Cowboy Poet - Visual Artist - Writer
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Bill was raised on his folks cow-calf outfit in the rugged western North
Dakota Badlands some twenty miles northeast of Sentinel Butte, where
he and his wife JoAnn ranch today.
The youngest of four siblings, and with forty head of horses around, Bill quickly
became an honor student of the "School of Hard knocks",
with broken bones in a two-digit figure. A product of the one-room
country school, he graduated from Sentinel Butte High in 1965, an
all-conference standout in basketball and softball. Bill then studied
at at the Art lnstitute of Miami, Florida.
He worked on ranches in Wvyoming and North Dakota and drove sled
dogs above Aspen, Colorado. Bill and his brothers vvorked amateur
weekend rodeos in a three state area. He is an acomplished heavy
equipment operator, working with any contractor that "was close
to home" for twenty years before he and JoAnn started "Lowman's
Construction," which they have owned and operated for twenty
more years. They have built numerous roads, hundreds of stock dams
and have installed over 3/4 million feet of fresh water pipeline
in a 100 mile radius of the ranch. The Lowmans also constructed
and operate "Lowman's Lodge," a guest house and hunting
lodge on the ranch.
The multi-talented Lowman is an accomplished visual artist. performing artist and literary
artist. Over 300 of his originals hang in private collections from
Hong Kong to Sweden. Lowman has written and illustrated three books
of cowboy humor and poetry and a fourth of cowboy cartoons. A fifth
book of cowboy humor plus a western novel, are near publication.
He is a guest author in "Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry"
edited by David Stardey and Elaine Thatcher, and printed by the
University of llinois Press. Bill and Joann are featured in "Unwanted
Bread,' a book on the plight of agricultural people in the upper
Midwest written by University of Moorhead Senior Staff Writer, Sheldon
Green and James Coomber.
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