FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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told by Two Shields, Teton Sioux singer

Prancing They Come

See them prancing, they come neighing, they come a Horse nation. See them prancing, they come.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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told by Bear Eagle, Sioux warrior

In A Sacred Manner I Live

In a sacred manner I live. To the heavens I gazed. In a sacred manner I live. My horses are many.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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told by Used-as-a-Shiled, Sioux Singer

The Earth Only Endures

The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Matthew C. Field

Death of Francois

No Words to be read are over his head, and no sculptured praise to save. The name of poor Francois, pale nd dead in his lonely mountain grave.

Francois Clement killed by an accidental gunshot wound during Scottish nobleman William Drummond Stewart's 1843 exploratory expedition to the Rockeis.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Matthew C. Field

To a Grizzly Bear

Ar-ow-haheark! O, madame, are you there? Well, I must own I've longed to see a bear; And must confess I've sought occasion, too.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux

Sitting Bull's Medicine Song

Wakan'tanka to him I am related Wakan'tanka is good to him I am related from above a tribe is my friend from above an elk is my friend from above a man is my friend.

Wakan'tanka means great spirit

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Oglala Sioux

Chant by the Oglala Sioux regarding the Black Hills, 1868

The Black Hills is my land and I love it, and whoever interferes will hear this gun.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

25

Old Buffalo

Song of Self Reliance

Well I depend upon no one's heart buy my own. So thinking this I look for horses.

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

26

Captain Jack Crawford

California Joe and the Girl Trapper a Campfire Reminiscence

Well, mates, I do't like stories, nor am II going to act a part around this camp-fire that ain't a truthful fact. So fill you pipes and listen

Jim Bridger, scouting, Fort Reno, Pap Reynolds, California Joe, Maggie

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Washakie, Shoshone Chief

I cannot speak. My heart is so full my tonuge will not work. When a favor is shown a Frenchman, he feels it in his head and his tongue speaks. When a kindness is shown to an Indian, he feels it in his heart, and the heart has not tongue.

Ulysses S. Grant gift to Chielf Washakie

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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William Francis Hooker

The Taming of Pipestone

Pipestone sat on his horse, holding a twisted hair halter in his left hand

pinto, buffalo

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Captain Jack Crawford

He Died for Me

I tell ye, pard, in this Western wild as a gineral thing the dirt's jist piled in a rather permiscuous sort o'way

Nell, Mead

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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John C. Fremont

Long years ago I wandered here, in the midsummer of the year

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

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Red Bird, Teton Sioux warrior

Song for Securing

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53

Sagebrush Classics: Pure Wyoming 'Stuph'

Betsy Bernfeld

FC 11 B-53