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Zeb Dennis grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved to Boulder County in 1984, ready to live his dream of being a cowboy after having been a technician and service planner for IBM. He recalls his years of working as a farrier and as a cowboy on Boulder County ranches. He also writes cowboy poetry and has won a “Cowboy Poet of the Year” award. He talks about the history of cowboy poetry and recites two of his poems in the interview: “The Lesson,” featuring Bud Heil, at 47:16, and another about rancher John Hall at 76:05. He worked on the three largest ranches in Boulder County: Heil Ranch, Hall Ranch and Caribou Ranch. He tells amusing and illuminating anecdotes about working on these ranches and about the cowboy way of life.

This collection contains printed materials collected by Diane and Tom Rees and other persons who were closely associated with the annual Boulder Pow Wow. The materials include board of directors' minutes, financial and legal records, correspondence, press releases, entry forms, horse show results, programs for the Pow Wow and for the horse shows and rodeos in particular, press kits, and more general information issued by national rodeo associations, for the period 1963-1982.

Photographs of horsemen.

This folder contains 8 photographs. They include 6 views of Martin R. Parsons and others on horses ca. 1892-1964, a photo of members of the cast of "The Placer Camp Robberies" presented at the spring luncheon of the Boulder Woman's Club ca. 1964, and a photo of Mrs. A.L. St. George holding a plaque naming her humanitarian of the year for 1963. The Boulder Daily Camera used the last photo on 10 March 1964.

This collection contains photographs that Martin Parsons collected from various sources.