Cynthia Haseloff
Cynthia Haseloff writes as C.H. Haseloff. Her books include A Woman of Her People (Bantam, 1986) and SANTANA'S WOMAN.
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Or email her at: cynthiahaseloff@readwesterns.com
Gerald W. Haslam
Gerald W. Haslam is a past president of the Western Literature Association and is the author of one novel, Masks. He has also written four books of western short stories: Snapshots: Glimpses of the Other California (reprinted by Devil Mountain Books), Okies: Selected Stories, Hawk Flights and The Wages of Sin. He is the editor of Western Writing (University of New Mexico Press, 1974). He has also written articles for the Los Angeles Times Magazine. The magazine The Californians did a story about Haslam in the March/April, 1988 issue.
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Linda M. Hasselstrom received her B.A. in English and Journalism in 1965 from the University of South Dakota, where she was named outstanding journalism student in 1962-63. She earned her M.A. in English in 1969 at the University of Missouri (Columbia).
From 1966 to 1969 she was the director of student publication and journalism instructor at Columbia College, Columbia, Mo. She taught communications at Black Hills State College in Spearfish, S.D. 1972-73, and from 1974 to 1981 was a writer-in-schools for the South Dakota Arts Council, teaching poetry and fiction. She is currently teaching freshman English at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
A former newspaper reporter, Linda Hasselstrom has taken over management of the family ranch following the death of her husband. She founded Lame Johnny Press in order to publish poetry, fiction and nonfiction from writers in the Great Plains. She published 23 books before suspending publication in 1985. She has conducted dozens of workshops and reading for audiences ranging from elementary school students to teachers.
Her articles have appeared in Colorado State Review, Dakota Arts Quarterly, The Mother Earth News, Rodeo Sports News, American Poetry Review, Plainswoman, Midlands, The Rapid City Guide, Rapid City Journal, Custer County Chronicle, The Freewoman, Saturday Evening Post, Black Hills Monthly, High Country News, Bloomsbury Review, and Christian Science Monitor.
Linda Hasselstrom also edited Journal of a Mountain Man: James Clyman (Mountain Press). She was featured in Ms. magazine's "Found Women" in 1975. And she received a fellowship for poetry in 1984 from the National Endowment for the Arts. Hasselstrom's book, Going Over East--Reflections of a Woman Rancher (Golden, Co: Fulcrum, 1987), won the 1987 Fulcrum American Writing Award. Her other books are Windbreak (Berkeley, CA: Barn Owl Books, 1987), The Book Book: A Publishing Handbook (Lame Johnny, 1979), and Roadkill (Peoria, Il: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1987). She is also the editor of Next-Year Country: One Woman's View (Lame Johnny, 1978).
Linda Hasselstrom's awards include being featured in Ms. magazine's "Found Women" in February, 1975; receiving a poetry fellowship in 1984 from the National Endowment for the Arts; being nominated for the Spirit of Dakota award in 1987; receiving a $5,000 literature fellowship from the South Dakota Arts Council in 1989; being featured in Life magazine in July, 1989; being named "Author of the Year" in 1989 by the South Dakota Hall of Fame; and receiving in 1989 the Governor's Award in Arts for Distinction in Creative Achievement.
Raymond Hatton
(Deceased)
Raymond Hatton, cowboy actor, was born on July 7, 1887 in Red Oak, IA. He appeared in 333 films during his long career.Raymond Hatton began his show biz career in vaudeville at the age of 12. He enjoyed comic pieces and was good at performing them. No wonder, then, that in 1912 he was in Hollywood and began working for Mack Sennett, the legendary king of the early comedy movie directors. During the remainder of that decade he appeared in comedies and melodramas directed by either Sennett or by another legend, Cecille B. DeMille.
In the 1920's Hatton did more and more comedy films. In 1925, Raymond Hatton teamed up with veteran performer Wallace Beery to do a whole series of "buddy films". Those were produced through 1928.
Raymond Hatton found another nitch during the 1930's and 1940's. He became the cowboy sidekick for such Western stars as Johnny Mack Brown and Buck Jones.
The Rough Riders:
Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton
in "Down Texas Way"
Raymond Hatton played in 333 movies during his long career, starting with "The Circus Man" in 1914 and ending with "In Cold Blood" in 1967. That was an amazing 53-year span of acting. His many Western movies included "Requiem for a Gunfighter" (1965), "Cow Country" (1953), "Marshal of Heldorado" (1950), "Code of the Saddle" (1947), "Wyoming Outlaw" (1939), "Born to the West" (1926) and "Girl of the Golden West" (1915).
Hatton also appeared on numerous Western TV shows, including "The Cisco Kid," "The Range Rider," "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," "Annie Oakley," "Maverick," "Gunsmoke," "Wanted: Dead or Alive," "Bat Masterson," and "Cheyenne."
Raymond Hatton died at the age of 84 of a heart attack on Oct. 21, 1971 in Palmdale, CA.
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Sid Hausman
Sid Hausman is a touring storyteller, songwriter, singer, teacher and musician. He plays the banjo, harmonica and a 12-string guitar, as well as an assortment of other instruments. He comes from a strong bluegrass tradition, and has conducted programs and workshops throughout the United States as well as Europe and Great Britain.He spent more than fifteen years teaching music and songwriting to Native American children of the Navajo, Pueblo and Zuni tribes in New Mexico. He told one interviewer, "I try to teach kids an alternative form of music from what they hear on radio and television. This is music beyond rap and rock-and-roll. Folk music is a part of our heritage and a lot of children aren't hearing it."
His performances are punctuated with stories and songs about spiders, owls, coyotes, bears and horses. In addition, he shares how the cowboy culture of today has little-known roots in the cultures of Indians, Blacks and Hispanics.
A reviewer in Western Horseman Magazine said of him, "Hausman is an evoker. His songs salute our Indian, Spanish and frontier predecessors, but they add a spooky little shiver of emotion. Somewhere in the listening, you start hearing through someone else's ears, and seeing pictures of another time." And Ramblin' Jack Elliott, a folksinger who often traveled with the legendary Woodie Guthrie, saw Hausman's performance and said of him: "Sid's banjo rang smooth and true. We forgot the words. It didn't matter. That bajo was singin' and a ringin'...."
He has been a featured performer at such places as Chamizal Borderfolk Festival (El Paso, TX), The Stables (Wavendon, England), Kerville Folk Festival (Kerrville, TX), Claremont Spring Folk Festival (Claremont, CA), Edinburg International Folk Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), National Cowboy Symposium (Lubbock, TX), Pikes Peak Cowboy Poetry Gathering (Colorado Springs, CO), Passim (Cambridge, MA), University of Colorado (Denver, CO), University of Washington (Seattle, WA), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM), Shrine of Ages Concert Hall (Grand Canyon, AZ), and the Corrales Cultural Arts Council in Corrales, NM.
His recordings include: Border Town at Midnight (Folk Era Records), Geronimo's Land (Blue Bhikku Records), High on the Lonesome Timberline (Blue Bhikku Records), Cactus Critter Bash (Sid Hausman), Slim Pickins (Blue Canyon).
For information about Sid Hausman's performance schedule, or to book him for an event, contact him at: Sid Hausman, P.O. Box 429, Tesuque, New Mexico 87574
This listing is far from complete and may contain errors.
Therefore, all Western entertainers and/or their agents
are requested to submit recommended changes by
contacting Stan Paregien through his e-mail address.
Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all of the people of the world revere him.
For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
--- Bible: Psalm 33:8-9
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