FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Rhymes from the Rangeland
FC 11 B-09
188
Wesley Beggs
The Morning Glory Hills
There's a thousand gems of beauty.
Stillwater, Red Bridge, nature, Montana, Yellowstone
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
5
Baxter Black
The New Hat - narrative
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
8
Baxter Black
Occupation: Cowboy
Somebody said, "You a cowboy?"
dress, hat, feathery hat, saddle, pickup, four wheel drive, modern cowboy, fancy boots, Lone Star Beer, belt buckle, mechanical bull, Waylon, Perrier, ignorance, lack of knowledge, show off, IRS form
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
11
Baxter Black
The Dead Cow Ranch - narrative
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
15
Baxter Black
The Gambler - narrative
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
28
Baxter Black
Fixin' The Outhouse - narrative
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
31
Baxter Black
Life Beyond Fortrun - narrative
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
39
Baxter Black
Sellin' Prewitt's Cow - narrative
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
44
Baxter Black
People are Funny Critters Chapter Two
There's.... Artichoke peelers and ex-Pittsburgh Steelers
occupation, profession, people, poets
A Rider, a Roper and a Heck'uva Windmill Man
FC 11 B-13
53
Baxter Black
That Good Ol' Red Rock Salt - narrative
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
23
E.A. Brininstool
Silent Trails
The trails are silent since you went away.
love, loneliness, lonesome, nature, manzanita berries, herd, solitude, heart ache, gloom, wild flowers, sweet perfume, camp fire, night-riders, longing,
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
25
E.A. Brininstool
The Stampede
A lowering night, with muggy, sultry air.
herd, thunder, lightning, campfire, night-herding, river, restless herd, storm, sky, echoing thunder, wild cattle, panic-stricken herd, night, stars, clouds
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
27
E.A. Brininstool
The Last Drive
Beside his sagging door he sits and smokes.
past, dreams, memories, old-age, gray hair, gray hair, dust, cowboys, fearless, smells, nature, night, bedded herd, night-guards, range pals, night-hawk, stream, lark, morning dew, broncos, Sunset Trail
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
29
E.A. Brininstool
The Nester to the Cowman
I have watched your great herds trailing toward.
plow, cattle, customs, progress, fields of grain, reaper's song, puncher, range, red man, change, prairie, schools, churches, remembrance, branding-fires, factories, mills, conquest, submission, desert, new era, fate, nesters
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
33
E.A. Brininstool
Cactus Charley's Regrets
The West ain't what it wuz, Bill, the good ol' days.
memories, change, fences, punchers, town, changing lifestyle,, motor cars, tame West, poker joints, graveyard, lynch-law, rustler,, women, hats, derbies, dresses, lariats, boots, quirts, silk shirts, cigarettes, Injuns, tame Indians, movies, fights, changing West, motion pictures, regret, rustling
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
31
E.A. Brininstool
The Blizzard-Bound Herd
Down from the winding hills, 'mid whirling snow.
cold, wind, Arctic blasts, helpless cattle, death, terror, blinding snow, despair, leaden sky, weather, Storm King
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
35
E.A. Brininstool
A Prairie Mother's Lullaby
The sunset deepens in the west.
child, love, sing, song, baby, night, evening, daddy, dad, father, mom, family, husband, wife, mother
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
37
E.A. Brininstool
Back to Arizona
Take me back to Arizona as it was in early days.
past, history, change, motion picture cowboy, Apache, law
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
68
E.A. Brininstool
Sence Slim Got Piled
Slim Bates ain't braggin' any more.
Slim Bates, bragging, bronc riding, throwed, thrown, bronc busting
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
66
E.A. Brininstool
Rainy Day in a Cow Camp
Gusty sheets o' rain a-fallin'.
yellow slicker, wet, rain, punching cattle, mud, cow camp
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
64
E.A. Brininstool
The Chisholm Trail
Where prairie breezes softly croon.
frontier, trail drive, cattle drive
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
62
E.A. Brininstool
The Braggart
I've fit the Injuns often, pard.
motion pictures, actor, Hollywood cowboy
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
60
E.A. Brininstool
Sheeped Out
It wasn't very long ago we bossed the ranges wide.
sheep, sheepmen, cattlemen, woolly backs, range
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
58
E.A. Brininstool
The Return of Bud
Bud Sands he's with the boys once more!
Bud Sands, New York, East, West, city, Bar-4, Bar 4
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
56
E.A. Brininstool
The Disappointed Tenderfoot
He reached the West in a Pullman car, where the writers tell us the cowboys are.
tenderfoot, greenhorn, West, East