Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born 1950 in Elko County, Nevada) is an American cowboy poet.
[citation needed] Mitchell has made eight CDs including That No Quit Attitude, Lone Drifting Rider and his most recent, Sweat Equity.
He and cowboy singer and friend Don Edwards released The Bard and the Balladeer Live From Cowtown.
Mitchell has written four books, Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas, Lone Driftin' Rider and a 2015 compilation One Hundred Poems.
[3] Biography and bibliography at the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame