Jane Morton's poems and stories are connected to her family and the ranch they've owned near Fort Morgan, Colorado since l9l5.  During that time it grew from a 320-acre beet farm to a l4,000 acre cow/calf operation.  After she married she taught school and published ten children¹s books.  All those years she and her husband were involved in the ranch and ranch activities--branding, roundups, and cattle sales.  Her dad had one man on the payroll.  Otherwise the family did it all.

   She is the author of ten published children's books and in recent years has been writing about the ranch as she knew it and performing at cowboy poetry gatherings throughout the West.   For the third year in a row she has been nominated by the Academy of Western Artists as the female poet of the year.  The first two times she placed in the top ten, and last year in the top five.

         Her new book, "COWBOY POETRY, Turning To Face The Wind", was published by Cowboy Minor Publications. It won the 2004 Will Rogers Medallion Award from the Academy of  Western Artists, the Glyph award from the Arizona Booksellers, a WILLA finalist award for poetry from Women Writing The West , and the Fred Olds award from Westerners International. She was one of fifty performers invited to perform as a Featured Poet at Elko, Nevada in January 2005.

  In July of 2002, she was named Poet Lariat Laureate on Cowboy Poetry at the BarD Ranch- http://www.cowboypoetry.com  This was in recognition of her poem, "The Cottonwoods," the story of a disastrous fire at the ranch. You  can read more of her poetry on this web site...and "Seein' Santa" appears on the Christmas poetry page. Her poem, "Branding", is included in The Big Roundup , an anthology.  Jane Morton's  poems have appeared in, "The Fence Post", "Wyoming Companion", "Colorado Country Life", and "Cowboy Magazine".

   Jane and her husband, Dick, live in Black Forest, Colorado in the summer and in Mesa, Arizona in the winter. 
                                                                   
                 Pictured left to right: Linda Kirkpatrick, Jane Morton, Chris Isaacs, Janice Coggin and Mike Whitaker.  ( Mike Whitaker is also featured on this web site.)
                                                                    
                                                   You can contact Jane by email.

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