Billy Greenhorn is the

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of the

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Bob Snyder. Snyder was born on February 3, 1937, in

St. Marys, West Virginia St. Marys is a city and the county seat of Pleasants County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,847 at the 2020 census. St. Marys was established in 1849 by Alexander Creel, who is said to have had a vision of Mary while pas ...

, and died in 1995. Snyder wrote for the Soupbeans Poetry Collective with contributions in the Soupbean series "What's a Nice Hillbilly Like You..." He also wrote ''We'll See Who's a Peasant: Poems of Love and Family'', printed by the Appalachian Press in 1977. He was also director of the Southern Appalachian Circuit, a branch of Antioch College in

Huntington, West Virginia Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and the largest city in the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area. A h ...

. In 1973 the school changed its name to Antioch Appalachia and moved to

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1995 deaths 20th-century American poets People from St. Marys, West Virginia 1937 births {{US-poet-1930s-stub