Poetic Obituaries: "I think coming to Elko and reading his poetry

at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering gave him a larger audience," she [Rodney Louis "Rod" McQueary's mother, Eloise] said. "That was a powerful experience for him. Later, he would use that poetry to express the tough things he went through in Vietnam." In 1993, McQueary and his friend Bill Jones published "Blood Trails," a book of poems based on both of the men's experiences in Vietnam. Some of McQueary's other stories, many light-hearted and humorous, have been published in numerous anthologies, including "Buckaroo: Visions and Voices of the American West" and "Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion." He and his wife, Wyoming legislator Sue Wallis, co-wrote "The Cowboy Cattle-log" and published "Surviving the Good Life," a memoir of Wallis' grandmother.

from Times-News: Rod McQueary: A Cowboy Poet Remembered

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