FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
Folk Coll 11 is Utah State University's cowboy poetry collection. The collection, originally created
by a generation donation by the L. J. and Mary Skaggs Foundation, includes books gathered
during a fieldwork project in the early 1980s to document cowboy poetry in the U.S. west (see Folk
Coll 11f). From this important fieldwork project came the impetus for the first Cowboy Poetry Gathering held in
January 1985 in Elko, Nevada. Since that time, each January, the Fife Folklore Archives staff take the collection
and Access database (that details each book, poem, author, first line and key words), to the National Cowboy Poetry
Gathering for offsite use. Through University purchases and generation donations from poets and collectors, this collection continues to grow.
Book Title
Composer
Call #
Pages
Author
Poem Title
First Lines
Keywords
The Song of the Hunter
FC 11 L-40
33
Robert L. Laumeyer
Together
Love, long together For your mistakes atone; For man was never Meant to liv elife alone. Live, long together And mistakes forgive, For loving together Is man's best way to live.
Na Paniolo o Hawaii
FC 11 M-31
Lynn Martin
Traveling exhibition celebrating the Hawaiian cowboy: exhibit catalog
Holaday and Hampton Poetry
Hampton Livestock Commission Co.
FC 11 H-39
31
The Holaday & Hampton Poet (Bruce Kiskaddon)
The Trail Drivers
The trail is abandoned, the fences have crossed it, the riders grow scarce with the toll of the years.
Breezy Western Verse
FC 11 A-11
94
James Barton Adams
Father Time's Partiality
I vividly recall the day long, long ago, Pauline.
Poems of a Desert Cowboy
FC 11 B-30
31
Rob Blair
Cow Country
I've rode them broncs on the old Red River, boys, with her muddy banks a mile wide.
Cowboy Poet
FC 11 W-03
7
Stephen R. Wilhelm
Charity Begins At Home
There's a word called hospitality
75 Years! My Time In Rhyme
FC 11 M-65
105
E.W. "Roy" Miller
To My Very Special Friends!
We spent a week in Ocean Shores, West Coast-Washington State and in the Windjammers office, I was hit with a plan I'll relate. I came across these beautiful cards, and I was greatly impressed; I learned "dollars" are washed ashore daily, Now, I'll bet you know the rest! So every day after low tide, look out shoreline, here we come;
Rimrock and Juniper
FC 11 K-31
91
E.J. Kirchoff
Gettin' Old
When a feller's young, he figgers that he'll always stay that way. And tho' others may get ancient, he will never see the day. And while oldsters may get stove up, have rheumatic aches and pain, hearin' mention of their troubles sorta goes against the grain.
Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet
FC 11 B-47
169
Baxter Black
Hardy Trees
Old Stories
FC 11 K-26
62
Jo Lynne Kirkwood
Reece's Peace
Reece was a hard working rancher He toiled long hours the whole work week through But when the weekend come round He would go to town and have the bartender pour him a few.
Horseback in the Hills: A Collection of Cowboy Poetry & Photography
FC 11 P-22
50
Roy Pace
The Fun Ain't Free
Owning your own horse is a great joy
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
216
Charles Wiley
The White Beneath
Don't shoot, don't shoot!
Songs from the Sage Brush
FC 11 P-03
67
Katherine Fall Pettey
The White Sea
I shudder at this songless sea, This sea of sand
Saddle For A Throne
FC 11 O-13
92
Will Ogilvie
His Epitaph
On a little old bush-racecourse at the back of No Man's Land, where the mulgas mark the furlongs and a dead log marks the stand,
blame, danger, win, cheer, struggle
Livestock Man
FOLK COLL 11 A-22
29
Amy Hale Auker
Nameoflove
The sky is orangepinkgold as he walks from the barn; bestbeerintheworld in his hand; Tired horse rolls in the sand.
tired, thoughts, late
Horsesense and Nonsense
FOLK COLL 11 J-26
55
LeRoy Jones
Christmas
It's true most Cowboys ain't real good at puttin' fancy words together, Leastways, not the ones the likes of which I run across.
love, story, christ, god
Cow Country
FC 11 E-04
72
Tom Ellinwood
Sack Artist
Folks who use only tailor-mades.
cigarettes
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
89
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Onward and Upward
Life is not about running naked through meadows of flowers, sunshine, and wood nymphs.
Horses Women Mountains
FC 11 R-17
50
David Roberts
Git Um Up Scout
Everybody knows the lone ranger
Cowboy Poetry: Classic Rhymes & Prose by D.J. O'Malley, The N Bar Kid White
Janice and Mason Coggin
FC 11 O-06
42
D.J. O'Malley
In Memory of My Mother
The direful news came unto me.
Stories and Poems
FC 11 J-03
4
Bob Johnston
The Life of a Cowboy
He is portrayed in movies and T.V.
TV, television, cowboying, work, occupation, job, reality, freedom, city, clean air, mountain
When Hot Springs was a Pup
FC 11 C-11
Charles Badger Clark
The Prairie Schooner and Other Poems
FC 11 D-01
46
Edward Everett Dale
Hide and Seek
We children used to play at hide and seek.
children, games, rhymes, death, grief
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
84
Robert V. Carr
When a Man Has Money
Friends a-smilin' ev-rywhere.
money, insincerity
"Pull Your Hat Down and Come-a-Ridin'!": Photos and Ridin' Rhymes
FC 11 K-14
17
Gayle S. Klein
The Barrel Racer
My horse and I have practiced and now it's time; That the ole boy proved he can win a dime.