Author offers poems from heart of a cowgirl

Author Barbara Knight will celebrate her 85th birthday January 15 with the Big Dog Saloon at Crooked River Ranch. 

Knight just recently received her first order of her eighth published book, “Poems From The Heart Of A Cowgirl.”

Her first book, “The Rescue with Penny the Mustang Pony” was copyrighted and published in 2004, followed by six more “Penny the Mustang Pony” books. “The Cowboys,” “The Storm,” “The Lost Boy,” “The Stampede,” “The Forest Fire,” and then in 2011, “The Day the Indians Came,” completed her seven book series, illustrated by a dear friend and artist, the late Dale “Wink” Burgess.

After 12 years of marketing and selling the Penny the Mustang Pony books she compiled 22 poems written over the previous 20 years, and with illustrations by local artist Cari Papen and through Page Publishing of Conneaut, Pennsylvania, she published “Poems From The Heart Of A Cowgirl.”

Knight’s newest book can be ordered online through Amazon or Barnes and Noble. The “Penny the Mustang Pony” books can be ordered directly at

[email protected]. She will be participating in vendor events in Sisters and surrounding Central Oregon communities throughout the summer.