Quemado, New Mexico
This 19 year old was named after his grandfather who was a horse trainer and cowboy. Jack works on many ranches in the Quemado area and has been performing cowboy poetry for eight years. He received the Buck Ramsey Award from the Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering along with the IWMA Liz Masterson Crescendo Award. Jack loves the cowboy lifestyle and wants to help preserve the Western way of life through cowboy poetry and stories. He recited his first cowboy poem in kindergarten and hasn’t looked back.