Every January, a festival of Western culture and lore takes over this Nevada town. At the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, wranglers turned writers spend a week reading from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny Reedy, left, and sister Brigid Reedy dance together at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 4.

As a sellout crowd jostled its way into the first big show of the 34th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on a late-January night in Elko, Nevada, old friends backslapped one another and laughed ...

ELKO – Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the 25th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko next January. O’Connor, the first female ...

In mid-afternoon, I’m driving from Salt Lake City to Elko — Elko, Nev., about three and a half hours away. That’s the official distance, anyway. If you bust it, it’s faster, of course. I’m following ...

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering -- a festival celebrating the arts of ranching and cowboy culture -- observes its 24th year beginning Jan. 26 and running through Feb. 2 in Elko. This year, the ...

The atmosphere was not surprising — Elko, population about 18,000, sits in the northeastern corner of Nevada, an oasis in the Great Basin’s high-desert terrain and the center of the area’s ranching ...

Johnny Reedy, left, and sister Brigid Reedy dance together during the "Midnight Dance" at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., on Feb. 4. In a high school gymnasium, three hours from ...

ELKO, Nev. — In a high school gymnasium, three hours from Salt Lake and seven from Las Vegas, the throaty warble of a fiddle competed with the sound of cowboy boots squeaking on wood. Men ...