The Salt Lake Tribune reports that cowboy poet Colen H. Sweeten Jr. was fondly remembered over the weekend at the third annual Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering at Antelope Island State Park in Utah. "We all took our hats off and bowed our heads and said thanks for having known him," said musician Lisa Stubblefield, who organized the Antelope Island event. "He was the type of storyteller that if you were sitting with him and a bunch of people around a campfire, you wouldn't want anyone else to say a word." Once described as "Western America's Will Rogers," Sweeten died of cancer Aug. 15 at age 88.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Adios to "Western America's Will Rogers"
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that cowboy poet Colen H. Sweeten Jr. was fondly remembered over the weekend at the third annual Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering at Antelope Island State Park in Utah. "We all took our hats off and bowed our heads and said thanks for having known him," said musician Lisa Stubblefield, who organized the Antelope Island event. "He was the type of storyteller that if you were sitting with him and a bunch of people around a campfire, you wouldn't want anyone else to say a word." Once described as "Western America's Will Rogers," Sweeten died of cancer Aug. 15 at age 88.
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