FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
36
Harold Otto
The Pateros School 1981
You have heard the song which had the name they cut down the old pine tree
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
38
Harold Otto
Cows and Logs
For many years, I herded cows upon a dusty trail
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
41
Harold Otto
Jerry Rice
There's a man in the Methow who's respected by all of the people who know him, be they short, thin, or tall.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
42
Harold Otto
In Honor of Jack Wood
There are strange things done in this apple land where the Reds and Goldens grow;
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
44
Harold Otto
Arch Fuller
I had a friend some years ago, Arch Fuller was his name.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
46
Harold Otto
The Pecos Girl
She used to live in Texas on the Pecos so they say.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
47
Harold Otto
The Farmer
A farmer is the man who feeds the world.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
49
Harold Otto
Rodney and Barbara Nickell
The time has come in both your lives which means so much to you.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
50
Harold Otto
The Bull Fight
Two bulls stood by a water hole. Some cows were lying down.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
51
Harold Otto
To Bill the Bull Cook
At the cook house near Pateros where the food is the best, there's a bull cook named Bill who gets darn little rest.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
53
Harold Otto
Mark and Esther
On the thirty-first of August, the year was Seventy-Three, Mark and Esther were married as God said it should be.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
54
Harold Otto
God Triumphs Over All
It was on a cold and snowy eve as darkness settled down, and cast its lacy mantle o'er the slums of Boston town.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
56
Harold Otto
Trail to School
Once again we walk the trail, that we used so long ago.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
57
Harold Otto
Johnny Gebbers
Johnny, old pal, our master called. He needs good men up there, too.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
58
Harold Otto
Pateros School 1983
As we gather here this evening we have seen a dream come true.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
59
Harold Otto
Mae Lynch
You have been our friend for many years, a friendship we hold dear.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
60
Harold Otto
Graduates of Pateros High 1981
As we prepare for this graduation our thoughts just seem to stray back through the years to kindergarten and the mysteries of those days.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
61
Harold Otto
Bob Quick
The time has come, there's sadness here, when now good friends must part.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
62
Harold Otto
Milking a Hereford Cow
I was helping milk a string of cows a good many years ago.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
63
Harold Otto
A Soldier in Viet Nam
A soldier boy lay dying in the mud of Viet Nam.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
65
Harold Otto
Butch McFee
There's an apple tree pruner on Jack Nickell's place, that for speed and neat work sets a real torrid pace.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
66
Harold Otto
The Winter of 1978 and 79
It was the day before Christmas in Seventy-eight; the weather got bad I am sad to relate.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
67
Harold Otto
Life in the Methow
You have heard me brag of the Methow.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
69
Harold Otto
Pateros High School 1980
As we gather here this evening an event we all hold dear; I am sure we all remember how we struggled through those years.
Poems, Facts and Fiction
FC 11 O-03
70
Harold Otto
Picnic Memories
We came here on a picnic; the day was sunny and fair, and the blue of the sky in God's heaven was a beauty beyond all compare.