Waddie Mitchell

Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born 1950 in Elko County, Nevada) is an American cowboy poet.[1] He often performs his poems with a guitarist playing in the background. Mitchell has made seven CDs including Buckaroo Poet, Lone Drifting Rider and That No Quit Attitude.He and cowboy singer and friend Don Edwards released The Bard and the Balladeer Live From Cowtown. Mitchelle has written three books, Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas and Lone Driftin' Rider. He was chosen to write a poem describing the West for the 2002 Winter Olympics' Olympic Arts Festival.[2] He is a co-founder of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.[3]

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum presented the 2012 Wrangler Award for Best Original Composition of the year to Guy Porter Gillette (1945-2013) and his brother, William Pipp Gillette (born 1946), sons of the photographer Guy Gillette, for their work on Mitchell's song, "Tradeoff."[4]


Poems

See also

References

  1. "Waddie Mitchell". Online Nevada Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  2. "That No Quit Attitude". Essays & Poems. Olympic Arts Festival. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  3. "Waddie Mitchell". Weber: The Contemporary West 21 (3). Spring–Summer 2004.
  4. Perry L. Williams (January 7, 2014). "Guy Porter Gillette". findagrave.com. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
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