Author Description

Review "His prose and rhyming verse transcends the norm of tradional poets in the cowboy genre. He has a keen insight into our cultural heritage and takes his readers or audience onto a plane above and into the world of the true laureate. There is certainly a place for the lighthearted stories of the ranch, prairie, and horse, and then there is art...Jeremiah skillfully weaves them all together." -- Mark Brooks, Western Entertainer"The poetry written by Jeremiah Johnson provides a much needed sophistication to cowboy writing. The intensity and great depth of all his writing is a rejuvenation of the dignified spirit that pervaded most of the early cowboy writers work - that noble spirit was and is the essence of the cowboy hero. Its refreshing that into the jaded ranks of cowboy poets rides young Jeremiah Johnson with his gourmet cowboy poetry. Quality writing by a young man you can respect." -- Larry Bute, Illustrator Product Description The first collection of Jeremiah Johnsons poems, The Trail's Philosophy, is a brilliant addition to cowboy poetry. The book will try all of the reader's emotions before the book is done and leaves the reader compelled to pick the collection up yet again. About the Author Jeremiah Johnson is a fifth generation Texan who has traveled worldwide with his poetry. Praised for his masterful eloquence and style, he writes of what he knows amid the dying ranching culture. Immersed in ranching, drama and literature throughout his youth, his poems evoke a sense of both longing for the past and both despair and hope for the present. Featured at many events across North America with such notables as Red Steagall and Don Edwards, to hear Jeremiah's poetry is as amazing to hear it as it is to read it.