Wide Open Spaces
by Theresa Tahara
Title
Wide Open Spaces
Artist
Theresa Tahara
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Black And White
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"...One last trail left to ride....
I ride the wind and stir the grass,
go laughing up the sunlit pass...."
~ Harvey Mawson (Canadian Cowboy Poet) Cowboy poetry was born on the trail in the 1880s, when wranglers would entertain each other around the campfire with songs, poems, and tall tales � some of them learned by rote, some composed during the long hours of riding. The use of rhyme and meter made the poems easier to remember; their focus on the concrete details of life on the range ensured they spoke to the heart. He spent his earliest years on the ranch his great-grandfather had pioneered in 1886. Mawson�s backyard was mile upon mile of open prairie � the Brightwater Marsh with its rich bird and plant life, the exquisite sand hills, and the Round Prairie, where a group of M�s had settled in the 1850s.
Photo taken along the highway heading West out of Kamloops, BC
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February 22nd, 2013
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