About Buckshot Dot



Dee Strickland Johnson Female Cowboy Poet, Author/Artist, Hysterical Relic

Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson) is a native of Arizona. She grew up on the Navajo and Hualapai reservations, and at the Petrified Forest. In the '70s Dot and her husband John raised Hereford and Angus cattle in the Arkansas Ozarks, but the call of the west was just too strong and they returned to Arizona, the land of Dot's childhood.
While living in Arkansas,she appeared regularly with her children at the Ozark Folk Center and wrote heritage articles for a local newspaper. She has taught at small schools in tiny Ozark communities and in the largest inner city high school in Arizona.
Buckshot Dot has been featured at Cowboy Poets Gatherings and concerts in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nebraska and Texas. In addition, she has appeared in concert and sessions in Alabama, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and British Columbia.
She has been named an Academy of Western Artists’ Female Cowboy Poet of the Year and a finalist for video and song of the year. In addition, she has won the Will Rogers Medallion Award for both of her historical poetry books, Arizona Herstory: Tales From Her Storied Past and Arizona Women Weird Wild and Wonderful.
Dot is happily married to John (Ol' Buck) Johnson. They have three grown children, five grandchildren, and four 1/2 great-grandchildren.