October issue of #thesmithsonian - Saddle Up with America’s Forgotten Cowboy Poet. Pictured, is Badger Clark in the summer of 1940. #thecowboypoet - Ballad of the forgotten life and indelible verse of a man known to many as “Anonymous”. South Dakota’s first #poetlaureate lived much of his life alone in a prim cabin in the heart of #custerstatepark . He wore whipcord breeches and polished riding boots, a #windsortie and an officer’s jacket. He fed the deer flapjacks from his window in the mornings, paid $10 a year in ground rent and denounced consumerism at every turn. “Lord, how I pity a man with a steady job,” he wrote in his diary in 1941. #lifeintheunitedstates #thesmithsonianmagazine https://www.instagram.com/p/CGK5schFR6Y/?igshid=1qebfvcf7zww6
