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South ��ֱ����’s first Poet Laureate, Charles Badger Clark, was born in Albia, Iowa in 1883. Traveling to South ��ֱ���� to attend ��ֱ���� Wesleyan University in Mitchell, Clark quickly fell in love with moving westward. Throughout his travels, he worked as a cowboy on Arizona and South ��ֱ���� ranches, where he began to write poetry about his life and experiences as a working cowboy in the last days of the open range. While living near Custer, Gov. Leslie Jensen named Charles Badger Clark as South ��ֱ����’s first Poet Laureate in 1937. He died at the age of 74 in 1957 and is remembered for such poems as, “A Cowboy’s Prayer,” “Spanish is the Loving Tongue” and “Ridin’.”

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