FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Code of the Cattle Land

There's a tension in the air tonight.

tension, town, cow town, gunman, gunfight, lynching, law, code, ethics

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Blest Hands of Pioneer Women

Blest hands of the pioneer women that found no task too long.

women, hands, pioneers, settler, housework, home fires, God, belief

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Diamond in the Rough

I always was tough -- a bit too rough.

appreciation of nature

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Arizona and Mexico

Arizona was a wrangler, his spread, the Diamond Hand.

Arizona Kid, Diamond Hand, wrangler, ranch hand, hombre, horse thief, Mexican, Mexico, belief, God, repentance, thirst, heat, desert

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Old Branding Irons

Old branding irons, chaps and spurs.

gear, bunkhouse, Elkhorn Pass, aging, old-age

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Red Moon Burns

Black are the crags, out-cropping, reaching up to a star.

night, moon

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Old Leather Saddle

There's an old leather saddle that hangs on a peg on the bunk house wall.

saddle, bunkhouse, gear, leather

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Kid was a Killer

The kid was a killer, cold and sure.

killer, singer, gunman, aging, old-age

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Hanging

They're hangin' us in the morning on the cottonwood tree in the glen.

hanging, horse thief, religion, belief, prayer, God, hanging tree, condemned

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Texas Kid

Square, he was, and soft spoken, and friendly, all knew him to be.

temper, White Line, Texas Kid, whiskey, Six-Gun, gunfight, shoot out, death, killing

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

When Cow-Man and Sheep-Man Met

I'm old now, but I well remember the men I met in the draw.

West, Englishman, sheep, range, disagreement, shoot out, monacle, duel, burial, death

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Lost

Out of a nameless desert.

desert, dry, watering hole, thirst, water, mirage, dry river bed

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

To Wash Down the Alkali

We're hitting the breeze for the cow-town.

thirsty, bourbon, hot, dry, Circle Y, drinking, scarves, clothing, dress, soap, satisfaction

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Ringo Killers

They were known as the Ringo Killers.

Ringo Killers, brothers, Wild Horse Glen, Ringo Brothers, water holes, spread, gun, bullets, gunman

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Song of the Bottle

Trailin' the hills with the riders, roundin' up the strays.

stray, camp, trail riding, whiskey, bottle, drinking, night-herding

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Call

I've heard the call that points the lone trail winding.

death

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Idaho Kid

The Idaho Kid they called him, slim as a blade of grass.

Idaho Kid, glove, gunman, notches, gun, killer, music

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Mirage, Mirage, in the Desert

Mirage, mirage in the desert, fooling, fooling you.

mirage, desert

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Old Prospector

He has wandered up the Wapoo Pass and down Comanche Trail.

Wapoo Pass, Comanche Trail, Lone and Last, Wild Horse Vale, Shoofly, Oreana Pass, Bruneau Gulch, Red Horse, Wild Grass, prospector, prospecting, pick, packhorse, gold, gold pan, mine, bonanza, aging, old-age

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Contentment

The old ranch seems content tonight, as I view it from the hill.

contentment, ranch, harvest, grain, night, contentedness

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Top Rider Tex

Tex was a good top rider for the spread of the Diamond A.

Tex, top rider, Diamond A, friends, friendship, drunk, rustler, brand, law, outlaw, hanging, lynching, rustling

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Arid Desert Land

Out through the desert reaches, with bleached and ghostly hands.

desert, canteen, thirst, dry, mirage, bones, birds, vultures, alkali, water, rain, survival

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

Song of Pioneer Women

There's as song of Pioneer Women that the sage and the willows sing.

pioneers, women, settler, past, song, wife, mother, frontier

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

The Draw

And so we stood--the bronze horseman and I.

horseman, Cross Bar T, gunfight, hate, killing, death

Songs of the Saddle and Trails Into Lonesome Land

FC 11 B-19

E.A. Brubacher

My Horses

There they are, their long day's work is done, my horses, standing in the last of sun.

horses, work, Spot, Star face, Bell, Blade, White foot, Silver, Strawberry Roan, Lady Jane, Lilly Bell