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World Service,23 Mar 1993,27 mins

Cowboy Poetry

Meridian

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Meridian explores one of the great icons of the modern world - the cowboy - at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada. "In our experience, we found that language was something really important to cowboys, yet the stereotype was this sort of laconic character that said 'yes m'am' and 'no' and 'howdy'." Hal Cannon, founding director.

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