Wally McRae (born 1936) is a rancher, an American cowboy, a poet and philosopher.
Wally McRae runs the 30,000-acre (120 km2) Rocker Six Cattle Co. ranch on Rosebud Creek south of Forsyth Montana. McRae attended grade school and high school at nearby Colstrip, Montana. He graduated from Montana State University in 1958 in zoology and chemistry. He is the author of the poem Reincarnation.[1]
McRae also received the Governor's Award for the Arts in Montana, received the 1990 National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award, and was nominated by President Clinton to serve on the National Council of the Arts. The Missoulian newspaper has listed Wally as #42 in the Most Influential Montanans of the Century.[2]
The American journalist Charles Kuralt discusses McRae's efforts to preserve the land and the cowboy way of life in the small community in his book, Charles Kuralt's America.[3] The poem Things of Intrinsic Worth appears in this interview.
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