Curt Brummett was born in Clovis, New Mexico, "a little over" forty years ago, and grew up in Clovis and on an eastern New Mexico farm and ranch.
Much to the relief of several school teachers, five aunts and a mother who claimed to have turned grey-headed prematurely, he graduated from Clovis High School in 1966. His mother always said he would graduate, she just didn't know when.
Curt started trying to write short stories when he was a senior in high school; in fact, the first story he sold back in 1986 was the same story his English teacher gave him an "F" on. It seems as though she was pro-Shakespearean and anti-Curt. But, as soon as it was published, he had a copy of this story sent to her - postage due. Curt says he's not right very often, but when he is , he sure does enjoy it!
He's a Cowboy. Since high school, Curt has worked on ranches in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico & Colorado. He has worked feed yards, in sale barns, and even in the oil field. He has 3 daughters, 8 grandkids, 1 horse, 3 roping steers, a female type cowdog that has 13 to 27 pups every other full moon and 14 of the non-layingest hens you ever saw.
He's even won and award or two. Curt was recipient of the Will Rogers Award (Humorist/Storyteller of the Year) in 1996, given by the Academy of Western Artists. He has been invited to the Cowboy Symposium and Celebration in Lubbock, Texas every year: featured storyteller at Elko, Nevada for 2 years, the Cowboy Gathering at Nara Visa, New Mexico, banquet speaker (and participant) for Ben Johnson's Pro Celebrity Golf Tournament and Rodeo in Sonora, California, the Arizona Cowboy Poets' Gathering at Prescott, Arizona and poetry gatherings in Durango and Arvada, Colorado as well as the Lincoln County Cowboy Sumposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
Author
Seminar & Convention Speaker
Woman Trainer & Cowboy
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Rafter C Productions
14836 County Line Rd
Willis, TX 77378
Nancy J. Peters
Curt has also appeared at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with Red Stegall and Walley McRae, and in Clovis, New Mexico, with Red Stegall and Baxter Black. He has opened shows for Michael Martin Murphy, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson.
A Favorite at Seminars, Conventions and Schools. Curt was banquet speaker for the 75th Annual meeting of the Texas Folklore Society, Farm Bureau in Rhode Island, and the Arts Council in Illinois. He has appeared at the FFA banquets and has presented his stories at many schools with students ranging from first grade to college in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. He also conducts workshops on writing and storytelling at any of his appearances.
Waddie Mitchell
Curt has published 4 books:
A Snake in the Bathtub
My Dog's A Democrat
Ropin' Can Be Hazordous To Your Health
Welcome To Querecho Flats
These books may be obtained through Hasting's, Barnes & Noble, and Waldenbooks. (If they're not on the shelves, just ask for them.)
Many of Curt's stories have been published in six other books:
Cowboy Folk Humor by John O. West
Horsin' Around by Kenneth Davis & Lawrence Clayton
Coolin' Down by Phil Martin
Cowboys in Kansas by Jim Hoy
Cowboyin' II- New Mexico by John Quierre
and a book about ropers and roping by John Erickson.
Most of Curt's stories have been published in The Livestock Weekly
Team Ropers Times
Horse and Rider
Country Magazine
American Cowboy
Super Looper
New Mexico Magazine
He has had a syndicated (or so he said) newspaper column entitled Quercho Flats,
a heart-warming sort of diary of a small town in the absolute middle of nowhere.
Sister Michael Rose Stanzel
His heroes are just common, every day ranch kids or grown ups that are trying to survive.
