FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Phantom Horse

There is a place where the big hawks soar over the Utah rims.

Utah, Bitter Creek, mustangs, buckskin, horse, phantom horse, phantom rider

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Reps from Bitter Creek

We camped up on the mountain at the head of old P.R.

camping, pack, string, Purdy boys, Squires, Johnny Mock, Dude Larson, Willow Creek, Bitter Creek, youth, T+X, kid, nine-year-old, gray horse, ugly horse, Dynamite, Jack, glassy eye

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Oh Lucky Boy

Oh, I was the luckiest boy in the world for I had an old time cowboy for my dad.

father, son, youth, childhood, being square, mother, family, home, lucky, aging, grandfather

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

These Things

Some towering rim rocks, sheer and brown.

memories, family, home, mother, father, youth, childhood, aging

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Ode To a Johnnie

Pansies have bright little faces that smile on the whole world the same.

flowers, pansies, rose, violet, johnnies, shade, nature

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Jerry McCarty

Jerry McCarty was a wolf.

wolf, whelp, wolf pack, pup, bounty, pet, death, children, family, home

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

As the Poppies Blossom Red

The old house slumps in the quakie trees.

aspen, house, home, aging, time, poppies, family, seasons

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

The Legion of the Lost

They come from every walk in life, they go, no man knows where.

love, bums, pity, fallen woman, broken heart, hobo, judgment, stranger, suicide, end of the trail, daughter, lost

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

The Little Bay Racer

You can talk about your horses, of your thoroughbreds an' such.

race horse, thoroughbred, bay, wild horse, racer, bucking horse

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Warden Brown

He rode into the ranch at dark, he said his name was Brown.

game warden, game, hunting, cat, mountain lion, prey, out-of-season

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

The Arizona Line

The horses they all want to buck.

horses, bucking, Arizona Line, song

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Nineteen Twenty and Three

We sat on the stoop by the old kitchen door.

memories, reminisce, parent, child, childhood, youth, daughter, 1923,family, home

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Old Timer

While out upon the ridges ridin' 'round the other day.

pinto mare, aging, wild horses, fun, old-age, old-timer

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Roundup Time on the Mountain

Each fall they rode the summer range to gather up the steers.

roundup, John Doey, grub, food, pack, meat, butcher, father, Dad, beef, moocher

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

My Garden

You can't see my garden, mother.

writing, garden, flowers, vegetables, planting, letter, husband, wife

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

The Blue Tiger

Oh, my horse is a bronchi, he runs on the range.

bronco, blue horse, bucking bronco, bronc busting

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

I Know a Place

I know a place with a bubbling spring.

memories, past, seasons, sadness

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Utah

There's a land laying west of the Rockies.

Utah, Rocky Mountains, belief, God, San Juan

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

To a Sunbeam

The days are dark and dreary, I'm lonely and feeling blue.

sunbeam, sunlight, sadness, loneliness, God, belief, light, gratitude

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

When a Cowboy Says I Do

A wolf lost his mate, became a lobo, ran alone the rest of his life.

heartache, mate, wife, loss, death, husband, Grim Reaper

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer

Just Ranchin'

Three riders loped along a trail, their horses wet with sweat.

gray wolf, wolf, prey, ranch, corral, poles, children, child's play, play, youth, childhood

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

Wild Horse Chasin'

Dad spotted a "wild bunch" on McCook.

wild horses, Bitter Creek, children, childhood, youth, boy, girl, father, family, close-call, rescue

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frances Brewer Steiner

The One That Got Away

For years dad lived on Bitter Creek.

Bitter Creek, father, mustangs, wild horses, hoof prints, tracking, close-call, pinned, fallen horse, broken neck, trapped, dig

Ballads of the Book Cliffs

Frank A. Brewer and Frances Brewer Steiner

FC 11 B-18

Frances Brewer Steiner

Dad's Mouse Trap

One early spring when snow still lay in deep drifts on the ground.

mice, rodents, branding mice, T+X, mouse trap, children, childhood, mischief

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Song of the Saddle

A saga of Saddle and Lonesome Land.

last frontier, land, cowboys