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Katie Smith Bio
Katie Smith’s life focus is agriculture, her family, writing, geraniums, and genealogy. Reared on the Little Laramie River near Centennial, Wyoming her love for the land was shaped by generations before her. Today, she ranches with her family on the 60 Bar Ranch north of Gillette, Wyoming.
Publication Credits
WyoPoets Chapbook, Wyoming Paintbrush,
2007
In the Shadow of the Bearlodge, Many Kites Press, 2006
Cow Country Magazine, Essay, 1990, 1991, 1992
Excerpt of Writing
Generation Passing
by Katie Smith
Our lifetime of work
building barns, buck fences, pole corrals,
herding white face sheep to swampy pasture,
trapping beaver from cold river currents.
Mountain logs fashioned our family’s home.
When I lost you, I lost my life.
Tonight,
driving by decades of ranch memories,
I view the open gate, badly broken,
a light shining in the window.
I look until I can see no more.
Someone else is taking our place.
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Favorite Quotes:
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” Winston Churchill
“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is after all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977), American writer
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