Cowboy poet, singer to get Lifetime Achievement Awards Don Edwards, a 50-year player in preserving the West with songs, and Waddie Mitchell, who paints figurative cowboy landscapes of the Southwest with words of poetry, have been chosen to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards by the American Cowboy Culture Association. The artists will be honored during an Awards Banquet at 6 p.m. today at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in the opening act of this year's four-day National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration. Mitchell is from a rural area of northern Nevada, and he remembers he went to a school that had 11 students and one teacher for first through eighth grades. "When it came to high school, I had to board in town because we lived quite remote - 60 miles, and 30 miles of it was dirt roads," he said. "We are in the high desert where we get lots of winter. I absolutely hated boarding in town, so I quit school and went to buckarooing for a living when I was 16."....