Larry Maurice has spent the last 50 years (thereabouts) as a cowboy, horse wrangler and packer in the Eastern Sierra and the high deserts of Nevada. You’re likely to find him leading a string of mules into the backcountry, on a horse drive in the Owens Valley, or working with longhorn cattle in Virginia City, when he is not performing his brand of cowboy poetry.
Larry travels around the country talking to schoolchildren about the role the cowboy has played in the development of the American West through poetry, song and stories. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Cowboy Poetry Award from the National Cowboy Symposium, and the Academy of Western Artists’ coveted Rogers Cowboy Award for Cowboy Poet of the Year. Larry Maurice has been a Lone Pine regular since the Festival’s beginning in 1989.
One of his great poems is a tribute to the Duke, John Wayne – it is called A Kind Word.
A definite highlight from Larry’s Sunrise Tour from the Lone Pine Film Festival a few years back.
Larry’s web site is at: www.larrymaurice.com and he can be contacted at: cowboypoetry@earthlink.net