National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Joel Nelson recites "Lasca"

http://www.westernfolklife.org - Cowboy poet Joel Nelson recites the classic poem "Lasca," at the 2013 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The first known publishing of "Lasca," written by Frank Desprez, was in the London Society newspaper (November 1882), and later picked up by the Montana Livestock Journal (June 16, 1888). In 2009, Joel Nelson received the National Endowment of the Arts for National Heritage Fellowship. Video length: 7:33. Read interesting facts about author and poem in cowboypoetry.com (classic poetry under Frank Desprez) and Wikipieda.