Bottom of the Hill Publishing to Publish Hal Swift
admin April 26th, 2010
Bottom of the Hill Publishing will help bring the cowboy poetry and stories of Hal Swift to print.
Hal has lived and worked in Indiana, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, California and Nevada–he knows the rural life and the West. His life experiences are many and varied.
A Navy Morse Code radio operator, he’s a veteran of the Japan Occupation Forces, and the Korean War. He’s worked as a musician, store clerk, security guard, disc jockey, reporter, and news editor. He’s gained national attention as a writer of Western short stories, and cowboy poetry. His book, “Cowboy Poems and Outright Lies,” published in 2001, is on the shelf of the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, and is in the Dickinsen Research Center National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City. It also is in a section of the Washoe County Nevada Library, known as “The Nevada Shelf.”
Many of his poems are on various websites, available by going to a search engine and typing in Hal Swift, Cowboy Poet.
Although he’s semi-retired now, he still considers himself a writer and reporter of the human condition, past and present. He lives within a half-hour’s drive from Drytown–now Wadsworth, Nevada–where the events depicted in his novel, Ballad of a Small Town take place.
Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West has been released for Kindle and will soon be available in print.
Howdy,
Great to see Hal on the email/net screen……
Looking forward to more.
Best to all,
Dorman Nelson