Luther Corky Williams grew up in the West Texas town of Van Horn along the Mexican border. After getting a degree in theatre arts at Texas Tech University, he and his wife, Jeanine, and son, John, moved to Los Angeles where he pursued a career in acting. Eventually the family bought a ranch in a remote corner of British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau. Fifteen years later Corky resumed his acting career as a cowboy poet at Expo 86 in Vancouver, and various film, television and stage productions in Canada and the US.