FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
128
Dale Hartley
Uncle Knew How to Hawk Anything
My uncle, Albert Eddy Malotte, was born in 1880 near Craig, Mo.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
129
Dale Hartley
Brown-Bagging it on Christmas Outing
Back in the 1950s, a trip to St. Joe to Christmas shop was a real treat to us kids who were raised out in the sticks.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
129
Dale Hartley
Hat Cover-Up at Church on Sunday Recounted
My neighbor, Charlie Mayes, told me several stories about Bonanza, Mo., when he was a young man.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
129
Dale Hartley
An Apple a Day Keeps the Border Patrol Away
Back in the 1930s, my uncle and his family lived in Washington state.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
130
Dale Hartley
Northerner Called Their Bluff
My great-grandfather, Thomas Clark Fort, came from Knightstown, Ind., and settled northwest of Kingston in 1865.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
130
Dale Hartley
RFD
Old Ebineezer Lee, Carried mail for RFD.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
133
Rex Henderson
Their Boots Are Tough
I've seen cowboy boots all polished
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
133
Rex Henderson
Cowboy Jed
"Lord, I believe all things are right in Heaven
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
134
Rex Henderson
The Great Roundup
Flinching from the darts of sleet
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
135
Rex Henderson
A Kindred Spirit
I've never owned a horse
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
137
Rex Henderson
Memory of Love
Lord, we've given up little Cody
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
139
Cliff "Cody" Holmes
Sale Day
She spun around and snorted
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
140
Cliff "Cody" Holmes
Always Been a Cowboy
I've always been a cowboy
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
143
Judy Howser
Cow in the Hoop
Ever now an' then, one of our cows goes Olympic on us, springin' like a gazelle over the pasture fence.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
144
Judy Howser
Life on the Howser Farm
Most cows are pretty good mothers.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
147
Judith Johnston
Your Strength
Lord, here I stand with hat in hand
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
148
Judith Johnston
The Look
His face is etched and weathered
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
149
Judith Johnston
Mid-Summer Night's Memory
The Whippoorwill are calling
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
149
Judith Johnston
DNA
I love this life.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
150
Judith Johnston
Rancher's Wife
I'll never be a rancher's wife; it's a life I'll never know.
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
152
Judith Johnston
39 Years of Tradition
39 years of tradition sealed in a handshake and a smile
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
153
Judith Johnston
Missing You
There is a lover's moon a shinning
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
153
Judith Johnston
Shoeing Sweetie
It was a Kodak moment
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
155
Judith Johnston
Reality
Sometime the nights get mighty lonely and I wonder why I try
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Leroy Watts
FC 11 M-46
157
Judith Johnston
Am I A Cowboy Yet?
I've dug postholes, built fence and started colts
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