FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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136

Mike Dawson

Fifty Dollars

Two young dudes from Boston Town.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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140

J.B. Allen

Alchemists

Renie was different, A spawn of the plains.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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141

J.B. Allen

Greater Love

The night guard's voice resembles.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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143

J.B. Allen

Bunkhouse Lawyer

"Just a mite too bronky, yet."

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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146

J.B. Allen

Wanderlust

I was checkin' the mares; In the dim light of dusk.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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148

Sue Wallis

Steady Market

Not long ago I drifted in and stopped to drink some coffee.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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149

Sue Wallis

War Horse

In my dreams I ride war horses.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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150

Sue Wallis

Hancock Compliments

He could have said you're sweet as pie.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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152

Sue Wallis

Mother Love

Ah, these -- these my precious; Pretty babies.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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154

Sue Wallis

Greenough Girls

Nineteen twenty-eight; Billings, Montana.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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157

Ross Knox

Man's Best Friend

Folks talk about a dog bein' a man's best friend.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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159

Rossand Patty Knox

Gathering the Double O's Bull

We was sittin' 'round a table in a bar on Whiskey Row.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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161

Audrey Hankins

Mixed Feelings

We were rimmin' around one summer mornin'.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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163

Audrey Hankins

Buzzard and Noah

We never meant to buy the colt.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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165

Audrey Hankins

Susie's Dream

When Susie was just a little girl.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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168

Audrey Hankins

Rusty, John, and Brown

We needed some help at the ranch.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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170

Paul Zarzyski

Escorting Grammy to the Potluck Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed at Bowman's Corner

Lean Ray Krone bellers through a fat cumulus.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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172

Paul Zarzyski

Benny Reynold's Bareback Riggin'

A bacon slab a-boiled black in oil every day.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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174

Paul Zarzyski

A Cowboy Reel

"Ain't a hand been hatched since 1950."

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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177

Sally Harper Bates

Why the Chase?

That gauch-eyed cow; Had left the herd.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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180

Sally Harper Bates

That Harlot Sky

At best, you'll be; His wife... but he.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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181

Sally Harper Bates

Fears

There's a big old ring around the moon.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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183

Sally Harper Bates

The Old Man

The sun was breakin' easy.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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185

Larry McWhorter

The Confrontation

A bride and groom of just three days.

Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass

Warren Miller

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187

Larry McWhorter

Ode to the Calf Cradle

Modern day ranches are doohickeyed up.