Barney Nelson

Barbara “Barney” Nelson has published eight books: Making Circles, God’s Country or Devil’s Playground, The Wild and the Domestic, The Last Campfire, Voices and Visions of the American West, and Here’s to the Vinegarroon! plus an afterword for Mary Austin’s 1903 book, The Flock and with co-editor Chelsea Blackbird, Mary Austin’s Southwest. Her creative nonfiction essays appear in Pride of Place (Ed. David Taylor), Writing on the Wind, Heart Shots: Women Write About Hunting (Stackpole), and Land and Water: Essays on Teaching Outdoors. She has also published numerous essays, photographs, and poetry ranging from two chapters in I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Raccoon (Doubleday), three essays in Cowboys Who Rode Proudly, and an essay on Cowboy Poetry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition. Her cowboy journalism appeared in over 300 horse and cattle magazines, her poetry in several anthologies of cowboy poetry, her photographs on numerous horse and cattle magazine covers of including Equus, Quarter Horse Journal, Texas Monthly, and The Cattleman. She is listed in numerous editions of Who’s Who (Among America’s Teachers, American Education, American Women). She is a retired Sul Ross State U, Alpine, TX English professor, PhD from U of N, Reno.