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Bruce D. Messersmith,Cowboy Poet - Musician
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Having
been offered the pleasure of performing in both Maple Creek, Saskatchewan
and Pincher Creek, Alberta, as well as several gatherings across
the Western United states, Bruce Messersmith can truly claim to
be an "Internationally Un-Renouned Poet. (or at least to have
been "up the Creeks.")
His poetry reflects "contemplations Cowboy" from the
perspective of one, who is working his way back to the ranch started
by his grandfather, Which Bruce hopes to keep in the family into
it's second century. Bruce had to leave the ranch in '76 and took
a job with the Burlington Northern Railroad where he became a locomotive
engineer. The railroad job allows him a little time to pursue his
more stimulating interests.
Bruce's music is a mixture of the old and the new, of history and
contemporary, from the early Cowboy Classics he learned from his
Dad, while working cattle, to the newer songs he has been privileged
to leam from present day singas and songwriters. The poetry he chooses
ranges, as well, from the Cowboy Classics of Knibbs, Clarke, Barker
and Kiskaddon to newer poems of contemporary Poets and his own offbeat
views of the modern culture. Bruce is honored to share in the oral
traditions of the Cowboy culture.
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