READ AND ROPE: The Elko, Nev., cowboy...

By John Needham, John Weyler and Lisa Mascaro

Jan. 31, 1992 12 AM PT

READ AND ROPE: The Elko, Nev., cowboy poetry convention featuring Newport Beach businessman Frank Carpenter (E1) has seen a change in the kind of verse presented. Convention organizer Hal Cannon says there’s less about life on the range and more on the themes of a dying lifestyle and tough economic times. . . . “Some people are still writing about bucking the horse,” says Cannon, but other verses “hit the issues right now.”

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.

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