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Show Frances B. Steiner Sandy, Oregon (formerly from Dragon, Utah) born: 21 November, 1913 Frances Brewer Steiner, daughter of Edith and Frank A. Brewer, grew up at the family homestead on Bitter Creek in eastern Utah. Along with her sisters and brothers, she learned to rope, ride and chase wild horses before she was old enough to go to school. Frances fondly remembers her father's interest in verse, his love for the work of Robert Service and the many times he shared his recitations and cowboy songs with his children. She recalls beginning to write her own poetry, as a young girl, when writing was "something to kill time with in the winter." Putting stories and feelings into rhymed verse eventually became an enjoyable, lifelong hobby for her and over the years she has written a number of poems, none more dear to her than those in which she recalls the ranching lifestyle of her youth. After marrying, Frances moved first to Idaho and then to Oregon where she has lived for the past forty years. Although she hasn't lived on a ranch since her youth in eastern Utah, her memories of early adventures and experiences continue to provide material for her poetry. In the early 70s, just after her father's death, she gathered a handful of his poems, as well as remembrances from her brother Allan of their growing up years on the ranch. From Allan's stories and her own experiences, she composed a number of narrative poems which she published, along with her father's work, in a booklet entitled Ballads of the Book Cliffs. Cowboy Poetry From Utah 57 |
