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 Adventures of Ole and Andy
FOLK COLL 11 A-24
12
Clarence "Andy" Anderson
Ole Finds the Pot of Gold
I never yet have been bored when I am with Ole. Something new and unexpected happens every minute. He really loves life and enjoys every minute of it.
rainbow, gold, trick, mirror
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
John A. Lomax
FC 11 L-13
40
The Clown's Baby
It was on the western frontier.
Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land
FC 11 P-31
204
Diane Josephy Peavy
Hauling of the Bulls to California
One Man of a Kind
FC 11 B-17
27
Everett Brisendine
The Subdivisions
I rode back into some Country.
memories, progress, mobile homes, development, modern times, landscaping, dam, subdivisions
Dry Crik Review: Summer 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
20
J.B. Allen
Sandin The Ruff Spots
While thumbin thru this magazine of ropers and their ilk the pictures spread before me made it seem as smooth as silk. Them ropers all stepped lightly
queen, trouble, blame, famous
Tumble Weed: A Collection of Verse
FC 11 J-02
68
Jim Jennings
Lion Huntin'
We had packed in from the Flathead.
hunting, cat, mountain lion, flashlight, howl, growl
Dry Crik Rview: Spring 1992
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
54
Peggy Godfrey
Hey, Cowboy
I may not have your anatomy nor weigh the pounds you do but, fella, let me tell ya I'm not in awe of you. Winters are cold to both of us
age, heifers, sex, labor, polite, irrigation water
Cheyenne Line and other poems
FC 11 B-57
83
J. V. Brummels
The night after the Grammy's
I'm sitting at the end of the bar. I came in to get a six-pack to go but the Prairie States Finals are on the TV
Cowgirl Poetry: One Hundred Years of Ridin' and Rhymin'
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-69
125
Peggy Godfrey
Hank Warner's Lucky Burro
Happened back east in the Mohawk Valley Hank stopped for a bottle of pop Heard a fellow complaining about winning a burro His grousin' dragged on nonstop.
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
10
Daisy Bell
There is a flower within my heart, Daisy, Daisy!
Sleepin' in the Bunkhouse
FC 11 G-32
80
Kenneth D. Gardner
Puddle
After every hard and good rain and with every irrigation, There comes a wet spot in the road--a place of inundation That holds images and fantasy.
Cowboy Poetry of David J. Bell and photographs of Dean T. Kunz
FC 11 B-48
1
David J. Ball
Gray Ghost Mist
Somewhere in the far reaches of the mind, Feelings come of all sorts and kinds.
Rhymes Along the Way
FC 11 L-39
18
Robert L. Laumeyer
Winter
The more I feel the cold, greater my need of sun. The farther I look back, the nearer my race is run.
The Columbine Remembers
Anna Bowie May
FC 11 M-26
30
Jack May
A Pauper's View
A new year's quickly drawing near
The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870-1885
Slason Thompson
FC 11 T-04
265
author unknown
Patient
I was not patient in that olden time
Horsefeathers
FC 11 R-06
20
Johnny Ritch
Out Bull Mountain Way
A place on the plain.
The Mystique Of Grouse Creek
FC 11 S-64
10
Elden K. Shaw
Cotton Thomas Basin
Located far out in the Mountain West, In an isolated valley by Nature blessed, The "Basin" was surely by God arranged, A pristine place as yet by man unchanged.
Confessions of a cowboy poet: The complete works of Bob Christensen, to date (in
FC 11 C-52
21
Buying bender's calves
We left the ranch at three a.m., we had a lengthy drive we hoped to have them on the truck when daylight broke at five
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
FC 11 S-63
31
Robert Service
Sunshine XV
The Sun! at last the Sun! I write these lines, Here on my knees, with feeble, fumbling hand. Look! in yon mountain cleft a radiance shines, Gleam of a primrose--see it thrill, expand, Grow glorious. Dear God be praised!
Jesse Rogers' Song Collection and Souvenir from Old Mexico
Jesse Rogers
FC 11 R-32
7
The Gay Caballero
I am a gay caballero, traveling from Rio Janeiro
The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870-1885
Slason Thompson
FC 11 T-04
290
Andrew B. Saxton
Who Gather Gold
They soon grow old who grope for gold
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
84
Baxter Black
The Turtle and the Rabbit
I climbed in the cab of the tractor and drove where the cattle were fed, as a new bride I guess I was nervous. It's easy as pie, he had said.
The Collected Verse of A.B. Paterson: containing The Man from Snowy River
FC 11 P-08
185
A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
Driver Smith
Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight
Back at the Ranch
FC 11 S-29
72
Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Shoeing Horses
Some people call them farrieres,
Ride The Silence
FC 11 H-58
56
Linda Hussa
For Forty Years
she ranted like a sow when he threw his saddle in the pickup the latigo and cinches lapping over the side followed him down back streets to see who he might visit
money, resentment, freedom, tears