Curley Fletcher's poems have been passed down through generations of cowboys, recited around campfires, learned and relearned. Fletcher wrote for the lovers of the great open spaces—the mountains, valleys, and deserts that form the Empire of the West.

Carmen William "Curley" Fletcher was born in San Francisco in 1892 and grew up in Bishop, California. He is most famous for the poem "The Cowboy's Prayer." Paperback