This came about in 2005, but I just ran into the story via Teresa Jordan's website. She is an author and artist and married to folklorist Hal Cannon, who was a founding director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada.

Nearly two years after Mongolian horsemen and musicians traveled to Elko in to perform at the 20th Anniversary of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Folklife Center staff and a group of musicians traveled to visit them in Mongolia.

Here are Hal and Teresa's "Postcards from Mongolia" on the Western Folklife Center web site. There is a link on that page to a "Deep West Radio" report that aired on NPR's Weekend Edition.

Here is Teresa's writeup on her web site, with a link to a page of her sketches.

(I got to this via Tony Norris's Facebook posting of a link to Teresa Jordan's "Year of Living Virtuously (With Weekends Off)" blog -- highly recommended. Tony is a wonderful Western storyteller and musician in Flagstaff, Arizona.)

~ Becky in Tucson