FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Open Range: Collected Poems (1: Rhymes of the Ranges, 1924)
Bill Siems
FC 11 K-24
Bruce Kiskaddon
Open Range: Collected Poems (1: Rhymes of the Ranges, 1924)
Bill Siems
FC 11 K-24
Bruce Kiskaddon
Open Range: Collected Poems (1: Rhymes of the Ranges, 1924)
Bill Siems
FC 11 K-24
Bruce Kiskaddon
Open Range: Collected Poems (1: Rhymes of the Ranges, 1924)
Bill Siems
FC 11 K-24
Bruce Kiskaddon
Cowboy Poetry: Words of the West
FC 11 C-51
Students at Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design applied their graphic and typographical skills to cowboy poetry. All of the poetry in unattributed. 19 loose broadsides (34 x 44 cm.) issued in a single sheet black paper wrapper with grommet binding. Text and image were created using metal type, wood type, silk screening, laser cut masonite, linoleum blocks, and xerox transfers on recycled chipboard. Project instructors: Seth Drenner and Cody Clark with assistance from Christina Aumann and director Gloria Kondrup.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
6
Baxter Black
The Sixty Foot Rope
I was in Guadalajara, Mexico
prose
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
8
Baxter Black
Blazin' Bloats
My gosh! How'd you set yer hat on fire?
prose with poem included
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
12
Baxter Black
Why America Needs Cowboys
So the press will know how to describe people who don't mind taking the handoff and running over the middle on a 4th down and one.
prose
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
14
Baxter Black
Women wearing chaps
There's something oh, so charming about girls basketball or lawyers wearing pantyhose or sweethearts with a drawl
prose
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
15
Baxter Black
Cowboys advice to the lovelorn
While entertaining the Farm Bureau in Ventura, California, I was introduced to three cowboys who were colluding on a column with the editor of the Ventura County Star
prose
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
19
Baxter Black
Taxidermy Heifer
As the only local cow vet, I had calved a lot of heifers
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
29
Baxter Black
Macho Surgery
There's a practice in a practice of a vet who works on horses
prose with poem
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
41
Baxter Black
The Boat Roping
If God intended cows to swim, He'd given them all flippers
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
56
Baxter Black
Immortal Branding
I got bucked off the other day, alas it was nothing new, I's settin' on a borrowed horse, the rope was old, the bruises blue.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
68
Baxter Black
Hey Cowgirl, Need a Ride
You can talk abut the glamour and the love of rodeo. The challenge and the heartbreak of the dally and the throw
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
71
Baxter Black
Cow Dancingid, danger: Pay attention and get this part right! Use branding irons with much precaution. The fumes
The pour-on instructions said, danger: Pay attention and get this part right! Use branding irons with much precaution. The fumes are inclined to ignite. Whoa back, Jack! My cow's on fire! No kiddin', Jack spoke through the flames.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
78
Baxter Black
Story of the cowman and the cow
Ol' Dave was calvin' heifers when the thought occurred to him, If I'd been born a thousand years ago I'd still be up at midnight with my flashlight blinkin' out because I let my flint supply get low.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
82
Baxter Black
Chicken Training
She felt an affection for chickens, she did, some might say it was overly so. So when her good hens started showin' up dead it dealt her kind heart quite a blow.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
84
Baxter Black
The Turtle and the Rabbit
I climbed in the cab of the tractor and drove where the cattle were fed, as a new bride I guess I was nervous. It's easy as pie, he had said.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
91
Baxter Black
Country Truck-City Truck
The country truck was a second hand Ford three-quarter ton rig with a cow dog on board, Four on the floor with the right fender squashed and proud of the fact tha the'd neer been washed.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
`02
Baxter Black
Pawn Shop Pinup Girl
She stood out from the guns and knives and other pawn shop treats
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
106
Baxter Black
Kelly's Halloween
It was a bad day at Black Rock that fateful Halloween.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
108
Baxter Black
Reunion of those who dared
I know it can't last forever but, we made it one more round busted up , limpin' some, a reunion of the lost and found.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
109
Baxter Black
Behind those eyes
Behind those eyes there shines a light that's guided me from my first step down life's highway through thick and thin so I could tell the wrong from right.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
110
Baxter Black
Grandpa's wisdom of the ages
Grandpas have a special job and have a since days of yore to teach this children's children things their parents might ignore.