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Show Lucile Bradley Bush Magna and Ogden, Utah born: 13 January, 1911 Born in McGill and raised on a homestead near Butte Valley, Lucile Bradley spent her childhood and youth in eastern Nevada's White Pine County. Her father's family had migrated to the area from central Utah's Sanpete Valley to found the Mormon community of Preston while her mother's family had similarly left Utah's Dixie to settle nearby Lund. Local get-togethers, holiday celebrations and family reunions always included musical presentations, athletic contests and often the recitation of poetry. While her father, who played both the violin and the mandolin, was often part of the band, her mother was a singer as well as a reciter, one of her favorite poems being "Little Orphan Annie." Both Lucile and her brother Teem, one of her nine siblings, became frequent reciters at these family and community gatherings and they enjoyed performing together on two of their favorites, "Billy Veniro" and "Utah Carl." Books, magazines and newspapers provided the source for most of Lucile's recitation and her repertoire included the work of many well-known poets such as Robert Service and Badger Clark. After her marriage, she continued to collect both songs and poetry, compiling them into an impressive scrapbook collection. She has also written a handful of poems on western themes including one inspired by a near tragedy at her home entitled "Swappin' Yarns at Roundup." This, she explains, is "an epic poem, made on the order of Sam McGee and dangerous Dan McGrew,... and incorporated in that poem are many of the things Cowboy Poetry From Utah 81 |
