FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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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
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
54
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
53
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
51
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
49
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
48
E.A. Brininstool
Juanita
Drear are the prairies, the ranges are silent.
female, girlfriend, lover, longing, memories
Trail Dust of a Maverick
FC 11 B-15
46
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
44
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
42
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
39
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
FC 11 B-15
70
E.A. Brininstool
The Dead Pardner
He's left us for that sunny range so fair.
death, afterlife, heaven, friendship, pardners
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
159
Robert V. Carr
The Bad Lands
Bluffs of ochre and brown and red, in varied glory flare.
land, lonely, Bad Lands, isolation, silence
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
160
Robert V. Carr
The Rattlesnake
O'er sun-baked plains he winds his way.
snake, rattlesnake
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
161
Robert V. Carr
The Buttes
Half-hid in shadow, vague and drear.
buttes, landscape
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
162
Robert V. Carr
Prairie Wolves
Up where the white bluffs fringe the plain.
wolves, animals
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
163
Robert V. Carr
The Winds of the West
Oh, the west winds, the wild winds, glad vagrants and free.
wind, longing, call, nature
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
169
Robert V. Carr
Onjinjintka
Camped in the foot hills, their fires bright.
Indians, chief, smoke, Sioux, flowers, rose, lover, Indian-White relations, heartbreak, unrequited love, unfaithfulness
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
172
Robert V. Carr
The Gun Fight
Stern his eye and ever watchful.
knight, honor, loyalty, chivalry, gunfight
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
174
Robert V. Carr
Love and Death
I'm camping here alone tonight.
memories, lost love, death, longing, wondering, stars, God
Cowboy Lyrics
FC 11 C-03
175
Robert V. Carr
The Western Trail
In the beginning the Great Spirit gave the prairie rare gifts.
Indians, Sioux, conservation, White man, nature