FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch
FC 11 D-12
Carolyn Dufurrena & Linda Dufurrena
Paris, Idaho
FC 11 S-52
Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Paris, Idaho
The last time I saw Paris.
Tourists, Pioneers, Tabernacle, Jack's Paris Caf?
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
FC 11 S-50
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
They say old cowboys never die.
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
A Heck of a Deal
He was surely a beautiful animal.
Horses
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Bale of Trouble
His old hat had been wrinkled and tromped.
Hay baling
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Bugling Bull
I'm an artist, not a hunter.
Big game
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Christmas Beneath the Stars
The cattle were bedded down on the hill.
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Country Livin', Cowboy Style
It's not a half-acre ranch on the edge of town.
Ranching life
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Daddy's Bells
My Daddy was a freighter.
Homesteading, Ranching
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Don't Expect a Letter
He was on the other side of eighty.
Bridle braiding
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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For the Birds
I'm concerned about the environment.
Peregrine Falcons, Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Grandpa's Passing
He wanted to die with his boots on.
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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He Brings Her Flowers
Her man was never a Romeo.
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Horse Trainer
I said, "Glen, tell me all about that top ropin' horse you had."
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
It's Hard to Go Back to the Ranch
Sunrise is flooding the valley.
Memories of ranching, selling the ranch
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Life Goes On
There's a groove burned 'round my saddle horn.
Aging rancher, grazing fees, regulations
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Lingering Rose
From my early childhood I remember.
Grandpa's homestead
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Looking Back
When we were young and had to do it.
Riding horses, pleasure riding, movie making, elk hunting, cowboy humor
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Meadowlark's Song
Sometimes I look out at the waving grass.
Memories, sandhill cranes, bluebells, hawk, buttercups
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Mistaken Identity
My Brother-in-law is a heeler.
palomino, team roping,
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Morning on the Mountain
A crushing silence awakened me.
Second Coming, Tetons
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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No Rabbits
The jack rabbits are fast becoming extinct.
government management
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
One More Opinion
Those little burrowing Ground Owls.
spotted owl, environmentalists
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
The Pollution Solution
We take the cattle off the forest.
Hunters, deer, elk, moose, EPA, BLM
Hoofprints And Heartbeats
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Colen H. Sweeten Jr.
Seeing Red
Training cattle on the highway.
riding drag