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| − | }}'''Charles Badger Clark''' (January 1, 1883 - September 26, 1957) was an [[American poetry|American]] [[Cowboy poetry|cowboy poet]].<ref name="biography">[http://www.badgerclark.org/biography.htm Badger Clark Memorial Society, biography]</ref> <ref name="dwu">[http://www.dwu.edu/sdlitmap/poet.html Dakota Wesleyan University biography]</ref> <ref name="blackhills">[http://www.blackhillsvisitor.com/main.asp?id=14&cat_id=30143 Black Hills Visitor Magazine biography]</ref> <ref name="truewest">Marsha Trimble, "[http://www.truewestmagazine.com/stories/who_is_badger_clark/1253/ Who is Badger Clark?]," ''True West Magazine'', 08/25/2009.</ref> |
+ | }}'''Charles Badger Clark, Jr.''' (January 1, 1883 - September 26, 1957) was an [[American poetry|American]] [[Cowboy poetry|cowboy poet]].<ref name="biography">[http://www.badgerclark.org/biography.htm Badger Clark Memorial Society, biography]</ref> <ref name="dwu">[http://www.dwu.edu/sdlitmap/poet.html Dakota Wesleyan University biography]</ref> <ref name="blackhills">[http://www.blackhillsvisitor.com/main.asp?id=14&cat_id=30143 Black Hills Visitor Magazine biography]</ref> <ref name="truewest">Marsha Trimble, "[http://www.truewestmagazine.com/stories/who_is_badger_clark/1253/ Who is Badger Clark?]," ''True West Magazine'', 08/25/2009.</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:25, 8 November 2019
Charles Badger Clark (1883-1957). Courtesy Second Hand Songs.
| Charles Badger Clark | |
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| Born |
January 1, 1883 Albia, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | September 26, 1957 |
| Residence | Custer State Park, South Dakota, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Dakota Wesleyan University (did not graduate) |
| Occupation | poet |
Charles Badger Clark, Jr. (January 1, 1883 - September 26, 1957) was an American cowboy poet.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Life
Clark was born on January 1, 1883 in Albia, Iowa.[1][5]
His family moved to Dakota Territory (now South Dakota, where his father served as a Methodist preacher in Huron, Mitchell,, Deadwood, and Hot Springs.[1][2][3]
He dropped out of Dakota Wesleyan University after a clash with a founder of the university, C.B. Clark.[1] [5]
He traveled to Cuba, then returned to Deadwood, where he contracted tuberculosis. He then moved to Tombstone, Arizona to assuage his illness with the dry weather.[1][3][4][5]
He again returned to South Dakota in 1910 to take care of his ailing father.[1] [2][3] [4] There, he once agin contracted tuberculosis.[3]
In 1925, he moved to a cabin in Custer State Park in the Black Hill of South Dakota, where he lived for 30 years.[1] [2] [4] [5] [6]
His work was published in Sunset Magazine, Pacific Monthly, Arizona Highways, Colliers, Century Magazine, the Rotarian, and Scribner's.[7]
He died on September 26, 1957.[3]
Recognition
In 1937, Clarke was named the Poet Laureate of South Dakota by Governor Leslie Jensen.[2][7]
In popular culture
His poem entitled "Lead by America" was performed by the Fred Waring Chorus in 1957.[5]
In 1969, Bob Dylan recorded 'Spanish is the Loving Tongue'.[3]
In America by Heart, Sarah Palin quotes Clarke's poem entitled "A Cowboy's Prayer" as a prayer she likes to say.[8]
Bibliography
- Grass-Grown Tales (1917)
- Sun and Saddle Leather (1919)
- Spike (1925)
- When Hot Springs Was a Pup (1927)
- God of the Open
- Sky Lines and Wood Smoke (1935)
- The Story of Custer City, S.D. (1941)
- Boot and Bylines (posthumous, 1978)
- Singleton (posthumous, 1978)
Books
- Jessi Y. Sundstrom: Badger Clark, Cowboy Poet with Universal Appeal, Custer, S.D., 2004
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Badger Clark Memorial Society, biography
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Dakota Wesleyan University biography
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Black Hills Visitor Magazine biography
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Marsha Trimble, "Who is Badger Clark?," True West Magazine, 08/25/2009.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 South Dakota Public Broadcasting biography
- ↑ Badger Hole
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Badger Clark Memorial Society, homepage
- ↑ Sarah Palin, America by Heart: Reflections on family, faith, and flag. New York: HarperCollins, 2010, 230-231
External links
- Poems
- Books
- Works by Badger Clark at Project Gutenberg
- Template:Internet Archive author
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