"Reading Helmboldt's poems is like browsing through a treasured scrapbook of my Michigan hometown. Anybody who grew up in small town Michigan during the 1950s and 60s—especially if you grew up in Marion or the dairy-farming countryside of Michigan—should experience this book."
 

“Bicycle Cowboy gave me the unlikely pleasure of once again walking through the town I used to live in—as well as a deeper understanding and appreciation of the poet’s reflective nature.”

“I always looked forward to seeing Ron Helmboldt’s outdoors essays and poetry in The Marion Millennium a couple decades ago.   I was  impressed with his gift for the finding that just right, everyday detail that makes small town life alive again for me.  How I remember it, and how I want to remember it. Now, in Bicycle Cowboy, Ron’s Hometown, USA descriptions impress me even more.