Kent Rollins
Simply put, Kent Rollins is one of a kind. He was raised in southwest Oklahoma near the banks of the Red River. He grew up around the cattle business and has never been able to get away from it - not that hed want to. He learned to cook from his mother at an early age and has turned that into a first class business. Kent, his wife Donna and son Jeffery, are the owners and operators of the Red River Chuckwagon. Kent and his wagon were voted Chuckwagon of the Year in 1996 and 1997 by the Academy of Western Artists. Along with slingin hash, Kent has become pretty good at slingin bull. He has been nominated three times for Best Story Teller by the Academy of Western Artists and has also received recognition for his poetry skills as well. Kent has entertained and cooked from Hollywood to Branson and many points in between. He has made three national television appearances. Kent released a new album in October of 1999 and a cooking video in the spring of the same year. Kent still operates a cow/calf operation along the Red River south of Hollis, Oklahoma. For more than a decade, Kent has described life on the range through poetry and storytelling. This working cowboy first began preserving the rich history of the old west with his business Red River Ranch Chuck Wagon, by catering traditional western meals at company picnics, weddings and other gatherings. Cowboy poetry was a way for me to tie cooking and entertaining together. I share the old stories and let people know what went on in the 1880s so they can see life wasnt really like what theyve seen on the silver screen.