Alpine cowboy poet and rancher Joel Nelson will be the third recipient of the Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award. He’ll receive the honor during the 43rd Annual National Golden Spur Award dinner on Oct. 10 in Lubbock. The Ranching Heritage Association, a nationwide non-profit membership organization, sponsors the annual award to honor a working cowboy skilled in all aspects of ranch work and respected by the ranching community, and Nelson fit the bill. “This award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily horseback, caring for livestock on a daily basis,” said Jim Bret Campbell, director of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Gary Dunshee, owner of the Big Bend Saddlery in Alpine, described Nelson as a “great ambassador for cowboying not only in Texas but all of the West.”
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