FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Yesterday's Trails
FC 11 N-07
36
Howard L. Norskog
Shadow Woman
I was free from Fort Herrick it was simple you see the truth is I just rode away
Yesterday's Trails
FC 11 N-07
40
Howard L. Norskog
Bull Rider
My brother is up in that meathouse I can hear his sad voice once again as he talks to me there by his bedside I try to indulge in his whims
Yesterday's Trails
FC 11 N-07
42
Howard L. Norskog
Flower Women
There's a ridge that looks over a lake down below it's aqua green waters from the glacial snow
Yesterday's Trails
FC 11 N-07
44
Howard L. Norskog
Indian Girl
When I set sometimes and watch the sun go down there's an old nostalgic feeling so I'm told and at times like these I let my memories wander while her heart beat comes a bouncing through my soul
Yesterday's Trails
FC 11 N-07
46
Howard L. Norskog
The Old Cowboys Christmas
The cowboy woke up at the first light of day and anyone there would of heard the man say it's Christmas and tiem that we all should relex and enjoy good tidings, now this is a fact
Yesterday's Trails
FC 11 N-07
48
Howard L. Norskog
Prayer of a Cowboy
If there's a story to tell, then let's tell it of the wind blowing down from the hills and the truth that's inspired by your giving up here in a world ever still
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
10
Harold Otto
The Apple Knocker
No more will I pick apples this year of seventy-nine or wake up to an alarm clock when it rings its fatal chime
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
11
Harold Otto
The Church and Members at Methow
There's a little white church by the highway, where it runs through the town of Methow.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
12
Harold Otto
Lake Surprise
From the beautiful Methow Valley, to the shores of Lake Chelan, lies part of God's creation it's a country simply grand.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
13
Harold Otto
Service Station Trouble
If you stop in Pateros and gas you may need, go to the pumps of my friend, Jerry Reid.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
14
Harold Otto
Harriet Huckins
Harriet Huckins has been our friend since the year ninetten and four.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
16
Harold Otto
Methow Town
In the lower Methow Valley stands a village dear to me. I don't think this side of heaven a nicer place I'll see
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
18
Harold Otto
Seen in a Crystal Ball
Two hobos sat by a jungle fire, dirty and hungry in ragged attire.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
20
Harold Otto
The Stehekin and Bill
If you would like to journey in a valley wondrous fair, just go to the Stehekin for it's almost heaven there.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
21
Harold Otto
Pateros Girls Basketball 1982
You played the game, you played it well. What more could be done?
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
22
Harold Otto
The Truck Loader's Lament
I arrived in Pateros quite early one day. In a big poker game I had just lost my pay.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
23
Harold Otto
The Weldon Darlingtons
I met a man a long time ago near sixty years, I guess.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
25
Harold Otto
Dear Mary
As I sit here alone tonight, darling, the sun has sunk in the west I think of you up there in heaven, safe in that haven of rest.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
26
Harold Otto
To Steve, Barbara and Shelly Hays
Dear Friends, we know that you must go and leave us all behind.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
27
Harold Otto
The Old Stehekin Trail
I have traveled on the level plain, and climbed the hightest hill.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
28
Harold Otto
To a Great Hunter
There are men who hunt deer without rhyme or reason, Bob Dunbar is like that; he went out one season to get a big mule deer on the very first day.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
30
Harold Otto
Jake's Butterfly Net
I have a friend in the Methow who, to my surprise, quit chasing women to hunt butterflies.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
31
Harold Otto
A Vanishing Breed
They sing of a lonely cowboy who, when he is old and gray, turns his bronco homeward and never again will stray.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
32
Harold Otto
The Calf Theif's Lament
I was at a corral on the Old Cimmaron, the boss
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
34
Harold Otto
Progress
Where the mighty Columbia River and the little Methow meet