In 2004 I started performing live on stage. Since then I have entertained at many parties, churches, gatherings, etc. In addition I was honored to make an appearance on RFD-TV, filmed at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Theatre in Rapid City, South Dakota during Susie Luchsinger’s Cowboy Church at the Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo in February of 2008.

Also honored to perform at the Friday Night Opry and on the Saturday Stage at the Western Music Association Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in November of 2008.

In addition, I was selected for an “8 Second” Award for Lariat Laureate November 2006, a global competition from The Bar-D Ranch’s CowboyPoetry.com with the poem “COLD WEATHER FEEDIN”, and again for an “8 Second” Award for Lariat Laureate in February 2008, with the poem “WHERE THE HARD GRASS MEETS THE SKY”.

I feel it appropriate here to mention

who almost single-handedly maintains the Bar-D Ranch's CowboyPoetry.com site. Margo has made it possible for cowboy poets from across the world to gather their works in one place where we can all enjoy. It is because of her outstanding efforts that poets like myself have the opportunity to be honored with awards such as the Lariat Laureate competition's "8 Second" runner up.

I am currently CBSI Radio’s Cowboy Poet Laureate, appointed to that position by Jim Thompson, station owner, after Rod Nichols passed away. Rod had held that honor for several years, and I was very humbled to receive that distinction.

For more information, or to schedule a performance, please contact me or log on at:

Slim McNaught
P.O. Box 274
New Underwood, SD 57761
Phone: 605-754-6103
Fax: 605-754-6251
E-mail: slimscl@yahoo.com
Web store: www.slimscustomleather.com
Bar-D Ranch: www.cowboypoetry.com/slimmcnaught.htm

BIOGRAPHY:

In 1935, when Slim was one year old, his folks moved to a ranch in the Badlands country on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota. They lived in a log house on Bear In The Lodge Creek for a few years and later moved east of there into the Buzzard Basin area south of Eagle Nest Butte. They raised cows and horses and put up a lot of hay. In 1954 Slim married Darlene Brodkorb and they purchased the Buzzard Basin ranch. They were blest with a daughter and three sons. After several years, they sold the ranch and started “Slim’s Custom Leather”, a saddle and boot repair shop and hand tooled leather business, which they have operated for nearly 40 years, starting in Kadoka, South Dakota and later moving to New Underwood, South Dakota. They are now trying to downsize to the hand tooled and handmade leather items and Cowboy Poetry gatherings. Sometime during high school Slim started writing poetry. Over the years he has had poems, stories and articles published in various anthologies plus many Cowboy, Horse, and Agriculture magazines and newspapers. Currently, his page on cowboypoetry.com shows several poems published, plus some gathering reports at other locations on that site. In 2005 Slim started his own publishing company, adding it to their leather business, to publish his books. The company is now called Slim’s Leather & Publishing. Since 1981 he has published five books. Four are cowboy poetry and short western humor stories, and one book contains some of Slim’s original works and some of his mother’s original poetry. He also has published four books for his mother, Troy McNaught Westby. In March of 2006 Slim published his first CD, “A Life of Rhyme”, and a second CD, "Reminiscin' ", in 2008. Slim feels he has been blest in living and working in ranch country and dealing with horse and cow people all of his life and this carries over into his cowboy poetry. Slim and Darlene have four children, seven grand children, and (at last count) ten great grand children.