Doc Hayes

Making hay while the sun shines

“Doc” Hayes has spoken at over 400 educational and organizational training and motivational meetings since the mid ’70s. He has been featured at many of the major western gatherings in both Canada and the United States. “Doc” is the producer and host of the Brandon Cowboy Poetry Gathering and the Canadian Cowboy Christmas. He has been featured on both regional and national television shows on Cowboy Poetry. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Academy of Western Artists.

Doc’s been busy writing and speaking over the past few months. Recently he spoke at the 24th Annual Pincher Creek, AB – Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Browse through the site and check out Doc’s Poems. Come back often to see where Doc is heading next.

Blowing Snow

In winter, 1969, two friends and I were hunting grizzlies on the south shore of the Lesser Slave Lake in Northern Alberta. We rode down off of a ridge and through what remained of an abandoned ranch. The  barn was tumbled in, the fences down and the old log style house stood  open to those winds that never cease. One of my hunting partners had  ranched near there for a number of years. He told us the story of the  family that had homesteaded there many years before. This is their story.

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