FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
45
Glen Enloe
Gimpy O'Kee
I'm Gimpy O'Kee from west Tennessee -- Don't tolerate no politics correct.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
45
Glen Enloe
A Little Bit of Country
Some say there's jest a little bit of cowboy in all of us.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
46
Glen Enloe
Cowboy Clowns
They've got those funny cowboy hats with horns a stickin' out.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
47
Glen Enloe
Watchin' Those Heroes Die
Watchin' thos Saturday mornin' matinee heroes die, We always knew that they really weren't dead at all.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
48
Glen Enloe
Dark Taker
Folks just call me crazy for taking all those chances, Workin' rodeos for low wages just to buy an acre.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
49
Glen Enloe
Aces & Eights
They now call it the dead man's hand: A queen, two aces and two eights.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
50
Glen Enloe
A Cowboy Tradition
It seems back in the 1950s without any premeditation.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
51
Glen Enloe
They'll Never be a Last Cowboy
They'll never be a last cowboy; As long as there's still some ole cows.
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers?and Other Cowboy Poems
FC 11 E-12
52
Glen Enloe
The Last of the Wannabe Cowboys
There's lots of derision about some folk's meek decision.
Frontier Ballads: Heard and Gathered by Charles J. Finger
Charles J. Finger, compiler, woodcuts by Paul Honore
FC 11 F-02
The Real Book About Cowboys
FC 11 F-14
Michael Gorham
Gathering Remnants: A Tribute to the Working Cowboy
FC 11 F-15
Felicitas Fieuki-Reihle and Kendall Nelson
Elmer Kelton: One Collector's Bibliography
FC 11 H-26
Jerry E. Hunt
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
1
Herbert N. Handley
Only a Few
Just how many are left; I cannot say.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
2
Herbert N. Handley
Old Hands and Old Brands
The memory's these words bring back -- I see the old campfires, where the "wagon" is camped in the draw near a clump of willows?
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
7
Herbert N. Handley
Pool Outfits
A word here to explain about "Pool Outfits", a "Pool Outfit" were several cattle & horse owners banded together, to operate a round-up wagon.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
8
Herbert N. Handley
The Lime Kiln Pool
The Lime Kiln Pool was organized at an early date by a group of cowmen on the Cheyenne River and tributary creeks, in the vicinity of the mouth of Deep Creek.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
19
Herbert N. Handley
One Moon Night Light
It was a full moon night, "first guard" had just rode out to the herd to do their two hours.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
20
Herbert N. Handley
Brands
Who first burned a brand on a cow, horse, or donkey?
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
27
Herbert N. Handley
Old Timers
The pioneers who built their homes in the West River land, before the coming of the home-homesteaders soon got the name "Old Timers."
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
31
Herbert N. Handley
Indian Cowboys
In Range Days, in West River Land, there were several Indian Cowboys.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
33
Herbert N. Handley
Snow Down Your Coat Collar
I remember now -- "standing guard" at night.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
34
Herbert N. Handley
Norwegian Cowboys
Looking back over my limited cowboy days, two cowboys stand out -- "Big out."
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
35
Herbert N. Handley
Texas Old Style
Last few years we got Texans up here, good buys all of them, mostly they buy land and pay good prices.
Old Hands and Old Brands
Frances Fitch
FC 11 H-05
37
Herbert N. Handley
Trailing Horses to Iowa
When out "West River Land" was big and wide.