FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
135
Baxter Black
The Patented Heifer Paralyzing Device - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
136
Baxter Black
Dry Cows and Dead Pickups - not a poem
On the Edge of Common Sense
FC 11 B-12
138
Baxter Black
Sleeping Sickness - not a poem
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
19
Wesley Beggs
Go To It, Old Bronk, I've Called You
Go to it, old Bronk, I have called you!
bronc, bucking, buttons, West, wild, occupation, profession, horse, ride, riding, past, future, pitch, pitching, time passing, bronc busting
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
21
Wesley Beggs
The Merry Old Round-Up Gives the Best Exhibition of All
Great exhibitions on the rangeland.
roundup, show, broncos, wrangler, East, stock, livestock, Wild West Show, gall, stock
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
38
Wesley Beggs
A Talk With An Old Friend
One day when I was roving on the foothills of the West.
Henry Grammar, Texas, longhorn cattle, longhorns, Montana, Colorado, Osage County, Oklahoma, region, area, travel, birthplace, birth place, home
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
37
Wesley Beggs
The Cowgirl
When Western winds would move the air.
hair, tresses, bosom, female, girl, woman, beauty
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
35
Wesley Beggs
The Cowboy's Last Ride
A young Cowboy rose early one morning.
weather, occupation, storm, stray, store cabin, cards, gambling, drink, whiskey, Billy, shooting, death, gunshot, murder, kill, killing, drunk, fight, fighting, burial
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
33
Wesley Beggs
The Bucking Broncho, Dickinson, North Dakota
There was a bronk in Dickinson.
bronc, pitch, pitching, bucking bronco, bronc riding, bronc busting
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
27
Wesley Beggs
Oh! Those Days in North Dakota
Away up in North Dakota, in the year of eighty-three.
1883, game, big game, Dickinson, Bad Lands, nature, city, cities, Charley Tear, cowboy artist, Charlie Russell, Montana, Great Falls, Harry Snow, Morgan Frank, friends, Coming King, Christ, belief, religion
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
23
Wesley Beggs
Twenty Years Ago
I took a ride today, old Pard.
fence, change, game, deer, elk, antelope, grass, sheep, longhorn steer, range, sheepmen, cattlemen, Redman, red man, Indian, Native American, white man, environment, Indians, nature, pollution, destruction, buffalo, Sitting Bull, Sioux chief, Wounded Knee, teepee, fences
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
40
Wesley Beggs
Leaving Deer Lodge Prison - narrative
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
44
Wesley Beggs
A Stampede in Texas
We started from Mobeetie up to the northern range.
cattle, Jim Ma Lange, cowboys, cattle trail, loyalty, kindness, nature, plains, flowers, mocking birds, dark cloud, thunder storm, rain, frisky cattle, steer, bronk, sunrise, death, trackless plains, sadness, broncho, longhorn cattle, pride, frontier men
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
46
Wesley Beggs
The Work of a Bad Cowboy
Put on the blanket and saddle.
whoop, yell, work, persuasion, human hell, interrupt sleep, midnight, sparkling goblet, red wine
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
46
Wesley Beggs
The Work of a Good Cowboy
Go tell them the death cruel serpent.
glow of the morning, chaps, Stetson, stray cattle, herd, coolies, washouts, windbreak, trail, bog-hole, young calves, drunken tribe of creation
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
51
Wesley Beggs
When Your Hull Begins to Roll.
I said that I could ride him.
steer riding, circus, wild steers, frantic recreation, longhorn steer, cinch, bronc busting, pitched, thrown, badger hole, Texas, hard rides, jackpot, tough animal
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
67
Wesley Beggs
To the Warden, Deer Lodge
Would it be against the prison rules.
request, verses, letter, wife, favor
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
50
Wesley Beggs
To My Indian Friends
God made you my brother, in His own perfect way.
reservation, past, old times, freedom, plains of the West, free Indian, confined, restriction, lack of freedom, suffering, greed, profit, injustice, buffaloes, slaughter, slay, wigwams, braves, elk, bear, Red Man, vanishing Indians, true, loyal, good Indians, bouquet, tender thoughts, Montana
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
66
Wesley Beggs
A Lonely Grave Out West
A lonely grave, a sacred spot.
Jim Bridger trail, death, grave, youth, boy, Indians, kill, slay, Red Man, arrows, blood thirsty Indians, father, lonely grave, grief
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
65
Wesley Beggs
Lines to a Prisoner
Look up, my brother do not fear.
endurance, hope, iron bars, grated doors, convict, shame, prison doors, clanking chains, lasting sting, pain, God, trust in God
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
62
Wesley Beggs
Hurrah for Old Montana Twenty Years Ago
I want to tell you, Pardner.
rangeland, Golden Treasure State, longhorn steer, shaky horse, Texas, cypress, pine, doggies, summer, winter, Dodge City Trail, fences, free delivery mail, farmer, chickens, turkeys, weavily wheat, Colorado, summer, winter, vast country, open country, jewel of the West, Nebraska, sandhill, harvest, grass, nature, open range, puncher, gem of the West, Bingen on the Rhine, warrior, Great Divide, buried in Montana, pines
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
60
Wesley Beggs
He Was Going Some for a Preacher
I put my hat upon my head and walked out for a stroll.
night, moon, cold, church, gifted preacher, perfect language, Lord, praise the Lord, hell, burning hell, wicked men, eternal seething flames, torture, torment, weak soul, devil, God, Bible, fearful punishment, love of God, eternity, heathen, harlot, revenge, hate, salvation, truth
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
59
Wesley Beggs
In the Bad Lands
I used to love to ramble in the dreary old Bad Lands.
lasso, saddle horn, Western hunter, rifle, antelope, buffalo pony, rein, ride, hunting, scamp
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
57
Wesley Beggs
A Hunk of That Old Pumpkin Pie
I have wondered so far in my rovings.
childhood, memories, joy, homestead, mother, happiness, gloom, sadness, boyhood, log cabin, apple orchard, summer, nature, cows, school, father, family, home, warmth, contentment, hope, duty, sad feeling, contentedness
Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
52
Wesley Beggs
They Sent Me Right Over the Road
My home now is here in prison.
sorrow, barbed arrow, no pay, hard work, serving sentence, wife, love, grief, transgression, father, mother, childhood, memories, wild seed, marriage, sadness, heavy burden, banished, sinful, selfish, blindness, stripes, despair, loneliness, cellmates, pain, lost friends, prison cell, shame, children, mountains, troubles, distress, convict, prison wall, sore spirit, Lord, prayers, bitterness, punishment, criminal, rejection, sad tale, mercy, Savior, hope, Jesus, peace, poor health