FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
The Range Rider's Soliloquy
Sometimes when on night-herd I'm ridin', and the stars are a-gleam in the sky.
night-herding, stars, night, belief, afterlife
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
The Desert
Sun, silence, sand and dreary solitude!
sun, parched earth, death desolation, stillness
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
The Cowman's Loss
It's lonely on the ol' ranch now.
Little Feller, baby, death, dead, child's death, child, children, heaven, afterlife
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
A Cattle Range at Night
The prairie zephyrs have dropped to rest.
wind, sunset, night, range, breeze
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
Juanita
Drear are the prairies, the ranges are silent.
female, girlfriend, lover, longing, memories
Trail Dust of a Maverick
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E.A. Brininstool
Old Six-Gun
You've been a good old pal to me.
six gun, gun, revolver
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
The Ol' Cow Hawss
When it comes to saddle hawsses, there's a difference in steeds.
horses, cow pony, heaven, belief, afterlife
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
A Voice from the Open
The light shines soft through yon tinted panes.
God, belief, religion, churches, preacher
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
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E.A. Brininstool
The Old Trail Songs
We used to have a heap o' fun down on the ol' Bar-4.
Bar 4,banjo, sing, song, Shorty, Greaser Mex, songs, whoopee ti-yi, Kansas, trail drive, night-herding
Trail Dust of a Maverick
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E.A. Brininstool
The Dead Pardner
He's left us for that sunny range so fair.
death, afterlife, heaven, friendship, pardners