Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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(KUTV) A teenage cowboy is wowing crowds with his master cowboy poetry skills.

Thatch Elmer has been doing cowboy poetry since he was nine years old.

He considers himself a genuine, old-fashioned cowboy.

"Cowboys are good, wholesome people and that's just the way we are," he said.

Elmer started started doing cowboy poetry when he got a chance to perform at a cowboy poetry gathering in Heber.

"I said a little cowboy poetry and people enjoyed it, picked up on it, and it's kind of grown ever since then," he said.

Since then, Elmer has become a nationally recognized and professional cowboy poet, performing in hundreds of shows across the country.