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Ron Wilson

Ron Wilson is a cowboy poet with rural Kansas roots. He was proclaimed "Poet Lariat" by former Kansas Governor Bill Graves, won first place for cowboy poetry at the Kansas Cowboy Symposium in Dodge City, and was named the Horizon Award winner from the Heartland Chapter of the Academy of Western Artists. Ron and his family live on the Lazy T Ranch where he grew up near Manhattan, Kansas. He's been a 4-H member, FFA officer, farm radio broadcaster, college lecturer, Congressional staffer, association executive, rural development director, corporate vice-president, small business co-founder, rodeo ticket-taker, Sunday School teacher, diaper changer, bottle washer, tractor driver, posthole digger, thistle chopper, hay bale stacker, fence fixer, calf holder, manure scooper, and tail twister. Ron is director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University. Ron's web site is http://www.ronscowboypoetry.com/