This is the latest installment of El Mirador, an ongoing series curated by Francisco Cantú. Spanish for “the lookout point,” El Mirador collects original nonfiction, translation, and visual art on ...
E. T. Collinsworth
E. T. Collinsworth immigrated from Tennessee, then the Midwest, to Arizona for the 1972 fall roundup of a cattle ranch, its south fence contiguous with the international border with Mexico. For 30 years he worked cattle in Brazil and Mexico (illegally) and saddle-tramped much of the American West, after which he packed mules for the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness. Now semi-retired, he still helps with wildfires, hurricanes, floods and snowed-in livestock on the Navajo Nation. He has been a returning participant at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko Nevada and the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, Texas.