Born and raised at Cheyenne, Bill has been on a horse and looking at a cow most of his life. At 12 he was hired to ride ranch horses and check cattle along with all the other ranch jobs including haying with horses. The boss told him that he couldn’t be called a horseman if he couldn’t work a team. Since then he has been a rodeo cowboy, worked on ranches big and small, been a feedlot cowboy and worked lots of teams. Today he helps his younger daughter and her husband on their ranch in northern Colorado and his older daughter and her husband along Crazy Woman Creek in Wyoming, and has a small place on Horse Creek in Wyoming where his great grandfather first ran Texas cattle in 1871. In Cheyenne it is a requirement to be involved with Cheyenne Frontier Days. For over 60 years Bill has been involved and for the past 20 years he has conducted the traditional memorial service during the last Saturday’s rodeo in which he remembers those who have passed and recites Charles Badger Clark’s, “A Cowboys Prayer”.  Always a fan of the history of the West, story-telling and poetry, he has collected poems and stories that he likes and hopes you will too. A decorated combat veteran in Vietnam he helped organize Honor Flight Northern Colorado, which has, since 2008, taken nearly 3000 veterans to Washington to see their memorials. The Cowpoke Foundation has contributed generously to this effort.