Bud Strom

Bud Strom is the ruggedly handsome cowboy pictured at left as he was preparing for one of his stage appearances at the Cochise Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering in 2003.  Bud served as Co-Chair of that Gathering for 10 years, and had primary responsibility for the booking of talent for the Gathering.  Another of his duties was closer to Bud's heart, and that was his role in the educational program.  To teach children about cowboys and the West, Bud developed a very successful program that includes a contest to select the best cowboy poetry from Cochise County students. 

Bud has a masters degree in education, but his primary lifetime jobs have been Cowboy, Soldier, and Cowboy, in that order.  While a career Army officer, he became a poet, and the evolution to cowboy poet now seems inevitable. 

Although from the Midwest, Bud learned how to be a working cowboy in Red Lodge, Montana, after he was orphaned at the age of 15.  Bud joined the Army and stayed, rising to the rank of Brigadier General.  That's something Bud doesn't talk about on stage.  The one clue for the observant and knowledgeable is that his ranch south of Sierra Vista, bordering Mexico, is named the Single Star.
                                                                                                                      Dolan, Bud & Bud's Chaps      

As a cowboy poet, Bud travels throughout the West to appear as an invited guest at Gatherings. 

Bud's cowboy poetry speaks eloquently of that love for the West, for the cowboy way of life, and for his wife, Joan, and their family.  

Bud has published two books of his cowboy poetry, Dry Lightning and Cowboys & Angels, and took the best from each to record a CD, Lightning & Angels. 

 
                 Bud and Sid Hausman
                    Gathering, 2003