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"A diminutive cowboy with a full beard and a Texas drawl stands
onstage at Expo 86 in Vancouver telling wild and woolly stories of
life in the Chilcotin backcountry. The audience is mesmerized by
his poetic ballad of an alcoholic dog that rode on the back of his
saddle in Anahim Lake. The performer is Luther Corky Williams.
Originally from Texas, Corky and his wife, Jeanine, moved from Los
Angeles to Anahim Lake, BC, to become ranchers. Corky had grown up
on a ranch along the Mexican border before heading to LA to work in
the film industry. The learning curve was steep for the family as
they tried to get used to sixty-below temperatures, keeping
watering holes open for the cattle through four feet of river ice,
contending with marauding grizzly bears, getting stuck in
impossible bog holes, educating children and surviving the hoards
of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. In the West Chilcotin, a country known
to be hell on dogs and women, Jeanine says she thrived. I loved the
ranching life, she says, but I felt the kids needed a better
education. Eventually Jeanine and the children moved to Williams
Lake while Corky stayed at the ranch. After a freak accident at the
Anahim Lake Stampede, he was unable to continue life as a rancher,
so he decided to return to his previous career onstage and in film.
Getting chosen to perform at Expo was the big break he needed. From
there he got an agent in Vancouver and landed parts in television
shows like CBCs "The Beachcombers" and CTVs "Bordertown." After
Corky and Jeanine split up in 1990, Corky moved back to Texas to
work in theatre productions with his brother Jaston Williams, and
he performed on some of the major stages across the United States.
By 2007, Corky, longing for the wide-open spaces of BCs Cariboo,
moved back to Williams Lake. After living in Texas for fifteen
years, I just got a wild hair up my ass to get up and come back to
Canada, Corky says. Corky became known as one of Western Canadas
most beloved cowboy poets, performing his spoken word stories and
poetry across the province."
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
William Sage (1864-?) wrote several historical romances.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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