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.