12K views · 355 reactions | Join us as we look back at what happened on the first day of the 39th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Doug Groves and his assistants guide students in creating a handsome set of leather reins, complete with a 12-strand rawhide romal, during the Rawhide Braiding workshop in the Silver Room at the Elko Convention Center. Filming made possible by the E. L. Wiegand Foundation | Western Folklife Center | Facebook