Charles Badger Clark

Charles Badger Clark (January 1, 1883 – September 26, 1957) was an American cowboy poet, and the first poet laureate of South Dakota. His family moved to Dakota Territory, where his father served as a Methodist preacher in Huron, Mitchell, Deadwood and Hot Springs,

Clark was named the Poet Laureate of South Dakota by Governor Leslie Jensen in 1937. His work was published in Sunset Magazine, The Pacific Monthly, Arizona Highways, Colliers, Century Magazine, the Rotarian, and Scribner's. In 1969, Bob Dylan recorded "Spanish is the Loving Tongue". In 1989, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.