FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
29769 results found for "No Search Criteria Set"Book Title
Composer
Call #
Pages
Author
Poem Title
First Lines
Keywords
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
75
Sharlot M. Hall
Sheep Herding
A gray, slow-moving, dust-bepowered wave.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
76
Allison Ross
The Tent Rocks
What army pitched their tents upon this site?
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
77
Farona Konopak
Truchas
Amigo, did you ever see Truchas?
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
77
Lynn Riggs
Morning Walk -- Santa Fe
In Burro Alley I saw no one.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
78
Phillips Kloss
The Shawled Model
Pose demurely, Mexican maid.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
79
William "Spud" Johnson
Yellow
We drove out miles this afternoon.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
81
D.H. Lawrence
The American Eagle
The Dove of Liberty sat on an egg.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
John A. Lomax
FC 11 M-02
87
A Home on the Range
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
N. Howard "Jack" Thorp
FC 11 M-02
88
Old Paint
My foot in the stirrup, my pony won't stand.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
N. Howard "Jack" Thorp
FC 11 M-02
89
The Dying Cowboy
"Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie."
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
N. Howard "Jack" Thorp
FC 11 M-02
90
Get Along, Little Dogies
As I walked out one morning for pleasure.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
91
N. Howard "Jack" Thorp
Little Joe, the Wrangler
Little Joe, the wrangler, will never wrangle more.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
93
W.L. "Larry" Chittenden
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball
'Way out in Western Texas, where the Clear Fork's waters flow.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
96
Frank Desprez
Lasca
I want free life, and I want fresh air.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
99
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The Hired Man on Horseback
The typical cowboy is?simply a riding farmhand.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
103
Badger Clark
The Glory Trail (High Chin Bob)
'Way high up the Mogollans.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
105
Henry Herbert Knibbs
Old Bill
Young Sam went broke and hoofed it out of town.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
107
Arthur Chapman
The Last Drift
I've sold the old ranch, stock and all.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
108
S. Omar Barker
Jack Potter's Courtin'
Now young Jack Potter was a man who knowed the ways of steers.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
109
N. Howard "Jack" Thorp
What's Become of the Punchers
What's become of the punchers?
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
111
Violet McDougal
The Phantom Round-Up
Where the city sleeps in silence.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
112
Berta Hart Nance
Cattle
Other states were carved or born.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
113
Berta Hart Nance
Texan
To be a Texan is to ride.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
114
Zoe A. Tilghman
Cowboy, Cowboy!
"Cowboy, cowboy, comin' up the Trail.
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Mabel Major and T.M. Pearce
FC 11 M-02
114
Kenneth C. Kaufman
The Passing Herd
The wind was in the south that day.