FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
56
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Deathbed Gift
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
58
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Widow's Homemade Sachet
Flowers from the girl's dresses, stripes from my son's pajamas.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
60
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Calf Sleep
I close my eyes, opening them on the other side.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
61
Linda M. Hasselstrom
How Women Laugh in the Company of Men
We never shout, never belly a laugh like those gushing dormitory halls.
Bitter Creek Junction
FC 11 H-32
63
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Bitter Creek Junction
As usual, the shortcut proves longer than the map promised.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
1
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Prologue: The Hawk Hits the Window
My connections to the grasslands of western South Dakota may have begun long before my birth.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
11
Linda M. Hasselstrom
The Owl in the Dark
Pain nips at my neck and shoulder muscles, and words on the computer screen blur.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
21
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Sonata for Horses
When my mother married John, my world expanded enormously.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
33
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Blues for Shoveling Horse Manure
One spring day when I was twelve or thirteen years old, I rode Rebel over the Uncle Harold and Aunt Jo's to see his new horse colt.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
45
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Reckoning the Cost of a Dead Steer
The summer I turned 14, I developed into a tangle of hormones and growing muscles.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
57
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Lightning Strike the White Heifer
Last week, I made the five-hour drive to the ranch on Thursday afternoon to keep a Friday morning appointment with my doctor in Rapid City.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
71
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for the Dark Buffalo Winter
Back in Cheyenne I am still angry at my parent's refusal to realize the seriousness of their situation.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
87
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Beekeeper
I barely noticed Margaret when we both rode the community bus to the larger town north of us.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
107
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Badger Business
Perched on limestone outcropping in a neighbor's pasture two miles west of my ranch house.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
119
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for Death: The Deer Harvest
Jerry comes out of the barn with a dead deer over his shoulder and drops it on the tailgate of Rudolph's pickup.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
139
Linda M. Hasselstrom
The Young Cow Going Back to Grass
On a hot day in early July, I make my weekly drive north, from Cheyenne to the ranch.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
153
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for the Light: The Elk in the Aspen
When I wake from the dream, it's nearly dawn.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
167
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Climbing Into the Bullpen
I call mother as soon as we return to Cheyenne and learn that she and my father went to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota while Jerry and I were in Jackson.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
185
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Nighthawks Fly in Thunderstorms
Since I have stopped building each week around my Friday night trip to the ranch, I have begun to enjoy my life in Cheyenne.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
199
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Looking for Life: Fire in the Wildlife Pasture
Here in Cheyenne I look out the window and notice thick frost coating the windshield of my car.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
211
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Badger's Daughter
I'll be glad to see the end of the year.
Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains
FC 11 H-30
221
Linda M. Hasselstrom
Epilogue: Spinning with the Hawks
Sometimes I dream that my grandmother Cora is braiding my hair, as she did when I lived with my mother in the little house in Rapid City.
Cowboy Poetry: Rhymes, Reasons, and Pack Saddle Proverbs by Chris Isaacs
Janice Coggins
FC 11 I-02
14
Chis Isaacs
The Cowboy Creation
Here's to all the "real cowboys."
Cowboy Poetry: Rhymes, Reasons, and Pack Saddle Proverbs by Chris Isaacs
Janice Coggins
FC 11 I-02
16
Chis Isaacs
The Proposition
He rode into our spring camp.
Cowboy Poetry: Rhymes, Reasons, and Pack Saddle Proverbs by Chris Isaacs
Janice Coggins
FC 11 I-02
20
Chis Isaacs
Antiques
It was just an old stirrup that I found in a box.