FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
The Cheyenne Stage
Jump in the stage to Jackson Flats latch up the door and grab your hats the team knows each step of the way and sure wants to git with no delay.
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
A Cowboy's Love Letter, 1861
Dearest Miss Millie, I arrived OK in Carson City.
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Gary Crum
The Aliens and the Cowboy
Kirby Huff was a regular cowpoke with enough years in the saddle to count.
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Gary Crum
Barbed Wire, 1881
Malcolm Peabody was a grizzled old cowpoke far from where Texas SL steers us'lly ran.
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Gary Crum
City-Bred, 2003
A cowboy's unswayed by package or string, but by what's there when the present's unpacked; and he's also slow to mind-rope the worst--he always plays out a man lots of slack.
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
Deputy Sam Hobart's Eulogy
Well, John, I'm goin' to say a few final words like the kindly town's folk asked today. I've searched my head real hard to find just the right lines: Every nice and true thing I could say.
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Gary Crum
It Was Just a Small Rock
It was just a small rock carved from a steep mountain peak.
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Gary Crum
Twelve Seconds in Saskatoon, 1866
One night outside the Saskatoon Dram House Abe Hanft approached the building's swinging door.
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
The Spring Cowboy Dance
O'er the plains comes a fiddle sound girls in petticoats prancing 'round
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Gary Crum
The Demise of Tates Mining and Manufacturing, Inc. 1891 (with thanks to John Palmer)
Randolph Byan Tates mined 'cross Montana from 1851 to forty more, but his fortune mostly came from the gear he produced for men and firms mining ore.
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Gary Crum
The Insult, 1888
Mary Anne was at twenty the new wife of a Texican mayor named Ben Brown.
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Gary Crum
The Last Will and Testament of Davey St. Claire, 1879
This story comes from a Mormon Ute maid who found Davey St. Claire 'bout ten months dead.
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
The Roy Gartin Gang
Roy Gartin was but a young lad when first he shot a man.
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Gary Crum
The Farm Boy and the Outlaw
Jim Ned Bowles was a wanted man--a quick hired gun who killed for gold; and he hoped to find a safe place by running to Mexico, Old.
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
Christmas Day in Idaho
There was a young cowboy with a herd stuck in the snow.
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Gary Crum
The Cowboy Hymn (based in part on Psalm 113)
Verse one: From the rising of the sun up until its going down, the Lord is to be praised, to be praised.
The Cowboys' Star
FC 11 C-42
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Gary Crum
The Reformation of Bruiser Bill
"Bruiser" Bill Butram rode his horse and his own carcass hard workin' all the day, he at night picked fights at the town bar.
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Gary Crum
Showin' Up
The Henson Rodeo rules were real clear as to what gear a bull rider could use;
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Gary Crum
Death Valley Christmas
Well, this paltry desert shade is as close we'll be to snow, to snow
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Gary Crum
Lost
Cloud covered and flat, each view of the prairie horizon topped by the same torn brim.
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Gary Crum
Iowa Alvin's Homemade Whiskey
Iowa Alvin opened a brand new saloon near lower Des Moines
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
Quechan ["kwuh-tsan"] Cabin Invasion, 1851
Herb Avant had a three-room Arizona homestead near Camp Independence where he raised steers, thirty head.
The Cowboys' Star
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Gary Crum
Night Herdin', 1875
Paul Hund drew the first four hours that eve and ambled to the string's lee side.
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Gary Crum
Home
Down the eastern fork from the corral chain, beyond the back forty and Lehman Caves, Over the Rocky Mountains and the plain, Past the muddy Mississippi's smooth waves . . .
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Gary Crum
Epilogue: The Nature of Cowboy Poetry
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