Stan Paregien, Editor
Francine Robison
Francine Roark Robison, educator and cowboy poet, is retired from teaching English and Humanities at the high school level in Oklahoma. However, she now teaches part-time as an adjunct professor at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK.
Cowboy poets Phil Martin, Stan Paregien, Francine Robison
and Gail T. Burton at the 2000 Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry Gathering
at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
in Oklahoma City.Francine Robison has performed at many cowboy gatherings and Western festivals throughout the Southwest.
Sandra Chisholm Robinson
Born in Salisbury, Md., Sandra Chisholm Robinson graduated from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Vir. She worked as an educational specialist for the National Park Service in the Florida Everglades National park and prepared environmental educational curriculum materials for elementary students. That writing experience led her to try other things.
Sandra Chisholm Robinson's first book, The Last Bit-Bear, A Fable (Roberts Rinehart), is in its fourth printing. Her second book, Expedition Yellowstone: A Mountain Adventure (Roberts Rinehart, Inc., 1986), was nominated for a Spur award in the category of Best Western Juvenile. Her husband is a ranger with the U.S. Park Service.
Sherry Robinson
Sherry Robinson is the author of El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, The Zuni Mountains: A Hiking Guide and History (University of New Mexico Press). A journalist for more than twenty years, her articles have been published in Texas Observer, new Mexico Magazine, Countryside, Columbia Journalism Review, and scores of others.
Lucia St. Clair Robson
Lucia St. Clair Robson was born in Baltimore, but she was reared way out west. In West Palm Beach, Flordia, that is. And she received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Florida. She served in the Peace Corps for two years, living in Venezuela. She has worked as a professional librarian in both Florida and Maryland.
Lucia St. Clair Robson won the a Spur in 1983 for Ride the Wind (Ballantine, 1985). She is the author of WALK IN MY SOUL (Ballantine) and FEARLESS: A NOVEL OF SARAH BOWMAN (1998). She wrote an article on Sam Houston in May, 1985 issue of The Roundup.
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Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Lou Halsell Rodenberger teaches English at McMurry College in Abilene. Her articles on Texas rural schoolteachers, Texas women writers and other subjects have appeared in such magazines as Kansas Heritage, Texas Books in Review, the Dallas Times Herald, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and others. She is a mamber of the Texas Folklore Society, the West Texas Historical Association and the Western Literature Association. She is the editor of Her Work: Stories by Texas Women (Shearer Publishing, 1982).
Frank Roderus
Frank Roderus was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. on Sept. 21, 1942. He and Betty Richardson were married in 1978. A former newspaper reporter, he became a full-time writer in 1975.
Roderus raises quarterhorses and writes books--some 80 sales at last count. That includes everything from juvenile fiction to "adult" fiction, with some two-thirds of his books been written under house names.He won a Spur from the WWA when his book, Leaving Kansas, was judged the best novel of 1983. His 1988 book, Charlie and the Sir (Doubleday), was a nominee for a Spur in the "Best Western" category.
Books written under Frank Roderus's own name include The 33 Brand (1977), Journey to Utah (1977), Duster (1977), Easy Money (1978), The Keystone Kid (1978), Home to Texas (1978), Hell Creek Cabin (1979), The name is Hart (1979), Sheepherding Man (1980), Jason Evers: His Own Story (1980), Old Kyle's Boy (1981), Cowboy (1981), The Ordeal of Hogue Bynell, Leaving Kansas (1983), The Oil Rig (1984), The Rain Rustlers (1984), Reaching Colorado (1984), Reaching Colorado (1984), The Video Vandals (1985), The Turn-Out Man (1985), The Coyote Crossing (1985), Finding Nevada (1985), Reaching Colorado (1986), Stillwater Smith (1986) and Hell Creek Cabin.
Jimmie Rodgers
(Deceased)
Jimmie Rodgers, singer and composer, was born on September 8, 1897.He was billed as the "Singing Brakeman," because of all the railroad songs that he sang. He had a great influence on generations of country and Western performers.
Jimmie Rodgers died on May 26, 1933 and is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Meridian, Mississippi.
Vada Carlson Rodriguez
Vada Carlson Rodriguez was born near the Sioux Reservation in Nebraska. She worked for a newspaper in Riverton, Wyoming and has won numous awards, such as the 1965 National Federation of Press Women's Achievement Award for newspaper features.
Vada Carlson Rodriguez's stories for children have appeared in Wee Wisdom and Jack and Jill. She is a director of the Arizona Historical Society and is the author of Broken Pattern (Naturegraph), No Turning Back (University of New Mexico Press), and High Country Canvas (Northland Press). She writes under the name of Vada Carlson.
Jo Ann Roe
Jo Ann Roe is a prize-winning photographer and author of fiction and nonfiction articles and books. In 1977, she won the top national award from the National Federation of Press Women for her feature writing. In 1981, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers presented her with the Washington Governor's Award. The NFPW again bestowed top honors on her in 1984, the same year in which the Washington Press Association chose her as a Woman of Achievement, for her fiction books.
Jo Ann Roe's articles and photographs have appeared in Sailing, Northwest Living, Compas Magazine, Tours & Resorts, AAA World, American West, Los Angeles Magazine, Washington and Los Angeles Times, Sailing, Yachting, Flying and Japan Airlines. She is the author of The North Cascadians (Madrona Publishers, 1980),Fisherman Cat (Montevista Press, 1988), Castaway Cat (Montevista Press, 1984), and Frank Matsura, Frontier Photographer (Madrona Publishers, 1981), a book which was made into a movie for Japanese TV and in which she appears. The latter book was also serialized in a Japanese newspaper. Her books published in 1995 included Stevens Pass, Ghost Camps & Boom Towns, and Seattle Uncovered.
Throughout her career Jo Ann Roe has held a keen interest in the history of the West. She incorporates tidbits of Western history into her articles, whenever possible. She is an avid pilot, horseback rider and tennis player.
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.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
--- Bible: Galatians 5:6b
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