FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

FC 11 B-26

180

Baxter Black

Camp Cookie

He's the tumbleweed chef and rides with the wagon.

chuckwagon ,grub, cook, unclean, bad cook, gunpowder biscuit, meadowlark souffl?, rank coffee, dangerous cowboy life, last roundup club, Indians, gunfights, whiskey

West River Waltz: Western Poetry

FC 11 G-31

119

D. W. Groethe

Only Cowgirls Give Cowboys the Blues

She was long, sweet and lean, finest thing I'd ever seen

West River Waltz: Western Poetry

FC 11 G-31

121

D. W. Groethe

Hell to Pay

A rancher works the land with his horses, with his hands

FC 11 T-06

no book, free number

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

13

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Great Western: Sarah Bowman

Great Western was the largest steam ship that sailed the Atlantic Ocean, And Sarah was a sizable girl, who served the troops with devotion.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

21

Dee Strickland Johnson

Sarah was a Darlin': The Great Western (Song)

She's big and tall and nicely formed, completely indiscreet, Her height described diversely as 'twixt six and seven feet,

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

25

Dee Strickland Johnson

Victorio's Right Hand: Lozen

I stand on the edge of the caprock, I stand on the rim of the world

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

33

Dee Strickland Johnson

Emma Lee of Lonely Dell

When we started out from England, we felt our souls released

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

51

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Miner's Angel: Nellie Cashman

From the famined fields of Ireland to America's teeming shore, Came Fanny Cashman with her daugthers, Fran and Nell.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

61

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Sodom of Goose Creek Flat: Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Marcus Earp

Have you heard how I came to Tombstone? It really was sort of a lark. Running away from home, was I, with Dora, my chum, to embark on a bit of risky venture with a Gilbert and Sullivan troupe,

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

79

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Saga of Big Nose Kate: Woman of Many Names

Mary Katherine Haroney--few people knew the name. Those who did declared she'd never been a lady. She was born to aristocracy, but would earn her share of fame.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

92

Dee Strickland Johnson

Mad Mollie Monroe

My pet, have you yet met sweet Mollie Monroe? Most fashionable lady, I've known in my life! She's charming and culture; a beauty, you know, with manners befitting a good army wife.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

99

Dee Strickland Johnson

Kissin' Jenny

My name is Kissin' Jenny and I've earned it, don't you know. I'm the foremost Prescott girl of my profession. The Maricopa County gents all treated me to drinks on the eve of that big shindig of a session.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

103

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Last Stage Robbery: Pearl Hart

I thought I was rugged, I thought I was rough, I thought I was tougher, much tougher than tough.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

109

Dee Strickland Johnson

They're Gonna Remember My Name! Pearl Hart (song)

I came west when the west was wild Daughter of the dust--ol' Chindee's child. Gonna get rich! Gonna gain fame! Folks, by durn, are gonna know my name: Pearl Hart!

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

111

Dee Strickland Johnson

Jennie is Back in Town: Belgian Jennie Banters

I am the wealthiest madam in Arizona Territory.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

115

Dee Strickland Johnson

Champion of Statehood: Sharlot Hall

My, how she opposed that new bill proposed, couched in words so grandiose!

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

119

Dee Strickland Johnson

Teresita, La Santa del Cabora

My mother was a Tehueco Indian, My father--well, that was quite plain.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

124

Dee Strickland Johnson

Belle of the Bar: Violet Hicks

'Twas a cold dark night in Prescott, January 'ninety-eight, The saloon quite populated for a snowy night so late

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

128

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Other Mother

And what of the other cowboy? The one tha they called "unknown"

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

129

Dee Strickland Johnson

The Question of the Cow

You killed my cow! said the Navajo, as he glared at the young Piute.

Arizona Women: Weird, Wild and Wonderful

FC 11 J-16

131

Dee Strickland Johnson

Wild Flowers of the West

We proceeded out West in '51 on the trail of the rough "forty niners,"

Rambler's Notebook: 50 Years of Scribblin': Songs & Poems from the Road

FC 11 A-16

14

Singin' Sam Agins

Trail Herd Incident

Musta' been eighteen days after we started the herd Somewhere up close to the Kansas line.

Rambler's Notebook: 50 Years of Scribblin': Songs & Poems from the Road

FC 11 A-16

20

Singin' Sam Agins

Rawhide

We were herdin' for the bunkhouse at a long easy lope, When I questioned my companion why he used a rawhide rope

Rambler's Notebook: 50 Years of Scribblin': Songs & Poems from the Road

FC 11 A-16

22

Singin' Sam Agins

The Fatal Bottle of Booze

Sourdought Sam and Panhandle Slim were playin' stud and tyin' one on