Publisher's Synopsis
Curley FletcherÆs poems have been passed down through generations of cowboys, recited around campfires, learned and relearned. Fletcher wrote for the lovers of the great open spacesùthe mountains, valleys, and deserts that form the Empire of the West. Carmen William ôCurleyö Fletcher was born in San Francisco in 1892 and grew up in Bishop, California. He is most famous for the poem ôThe CowboyÆs Prayer.ö -