FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Saddle Talk

FC 11 B-22

Owen J. Barton

Everybody's Friend

To some who look at this old hat.

Diamond A, trade-mark, Eric, friendliness, outdoors, college rodeo, ambitious, youth, fate, memories, thankfulness, kid, sudden death, God, heartache, mourning, grief,

Saddle Talk

FC 11 B-22

Owen J. Barton

Fishing Trip

I once went on a fishing trip.

fishing, exaggeration,

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

Fenced Trails

The trails are fenced that we used to use in the days when I was young.

past, time, trails, fences, extinction, memories, progress

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

The Trail to Extinction

The days of the buffalo are gone and passed.

buffalo, extinction, past, hides, longhorn cow, transition, cowboys, farm

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

My Country

Nothing' but pines and cedars, canyons and coulees and knobs.

nature, belief, God, progress

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

The Corral Dog

The corral dog's life is a dog's life, you bet.

corral dog, cowboy, occupation

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

If you never suffered hunger from early morn till late at night.

occupational lore, occupation

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

Cowboy Sentiment

When the herd's uh grazin' good and your pardner's gone to sleep.

night-herding, women, settle down, day-dream, occupational lore, occupation

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

The Line Rider

When you've been in a line camp alone for months.

loneliness, alone, line camp, winter, snow, cold, companionship, BW

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

Ole Coyote Speaks

Me tepee, he's got old and wore.

aging, Injun, Coyote

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

Harry Atchison

Another man's gone from the bunch on the range.

death, Great Divide, Harry Atchison, accidental death, operation, pain, anesthetic, hospital

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

The Cowboy's Hope

When the last bit of range is fenced up and gone.

progress, honyok, fences

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

Old Friends

I watched two wore out ponies.

horses, past, useless, put at rest,, work, toil, yesteryears, useful, strong, feeling, care, old-age, friendship, strength

Fenced Trails

FC 11 B-24

Bruce Brockett

The Ring-Tailed Tooter

"I'm a ring-tailed tooter," yelled Dusty Ben.

gun, shooting, show off, braggart, straight shooter, action, fight, asking for trouble, mean, fearless, Brazos Bill, death, killing, forty-five -P-?-?-p-?-?-?-?-?-?

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Spur

I came to a low water crossing.

trail, shank, dirt, past, sinner, saint, leather, muscle, bandit, settler, drifter, imaginations, cowpoke, lovers, honky tonk, renegade bronc, trapper, scout, buckaroo, professions, panner, story, unexplained story, mystery, one-legged man

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

Coyote Cowboy Proverbs - not a poem

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

Vanishing Breed?

They call 'em a vanishing breed.

preserve, books, pictures, dinosaur, Tex, Juniper Mountain, toughness, strength, Mike, bachelor, sagebrush aristocrats, Bryan, Albert, Floyd cowman, legend, extinct, endangered species, footnotes, Bull Feces, profession

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Cowboy's Goin' Hollywood

I was settin' in a caf? eatin' chili dogs and fries.

friend, change, cowpuncher, Stetson, clothing, fashion, juju beans, designer jeans, Cadillac, Nashville, record, music, band, famous, success, singing lessons, clothing, friendship

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Cowboy Gathering

I went to the first annual ever.

convention, cowboy poet, buckaroos, pokes, vaqueros, poppers, drovers, jakes, riding packers, colt sackers, Elko, Nevada, rubber check, poets, refrains, various subjects, topics, story , lack of time

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Paradox

The Saddle on the rack was priced at thirteen hundred bucks.

craftsmanship, rawhide, good quality, leather, made-to-order boots, rattlesnake, silk scarves, Wranglers, designer shirts, Copenhagen cans, gourmet's snuff, inlaid spurs, slobber chains, fashion, style, expensive clothing, reality, hard work, authentic, meager pay

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Cowboy And His Tapeworm

The world is on a diet.

cowboy's indifference, Mother Nature, self-sufficient, food, Montana, Rio Grande, ultimate consumer, grub, appetite, whiskey, diet pops, eat non-stop, overweight, lean, slim, chubby, healthy

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Rooster with Spurs - narrative

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

It Ain't Easy Bein' a Cowboy

It ain't easy bein' a cowboy.

Marlboro man, stereotype, Texas, Hollywood, imagination, Laredo, picture, unreal, exaggeration, image, Nashville, illegal alien, soap opera, dance card, Casey Tibbs, Louie L'Amour, John Wayne, Jessie James, twentieth century cowboy

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

Talk About Tough!

I've listened to varmints braggin'.

Kansas, stubborn ,Peewilliker Mike, cold, sturdiness, fights, struggles, she-bear, unusual skills, teeth, rattlesnake, thrown, bucked, bob wire fence, stirrups, story, liar. barbed wire, fences

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

Baxter Black

The Old Stove-Up Cowboys of America - not a poem