FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
122
Baxter Black
Big one that got away blues
Their pictures are painted on ancient of caves Orion has held them on high. Revered through the ages with instinct so deep it appears in a young child's eyes.
Blazin' Bloats and Cows on Fire
FC 11 B-56
124
Baxter Black
So lucky to be American
I am writing this column on my veranda.
prose
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
9
Jack Walther
The Good Old Days?
How oft' have I sat and reminisced remembering the days you youngsters missed.
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
10
Georgie Sicking
To be a top hand
When I was a kid and doing my best to learn the ways of our land, I thought mistakes were never made by a real top hand.
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
11
Georgie Sicking
The Greatest Sport
An old Nevada Mustang as wild as she could be; I'll tell you all for sure Made a gambler out of me.
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
16
Paul Zarzyski
Tender
What I would gladly give in silver certificate minutes, or gold hour tokens, to truly believe, falsely or not, that the animal brethren in our families
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
34
Mary Jean Risheim
Bill Seville
You could always see it through the fog of tobacco. A bit off-center and cocked assuredly and drunkenly at the bar-room mirror.
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
40
Mary Jean Risheim
Blue Spruce
In search of the Rocky Mountains he never forgot. He planted a Blue Spruce wherever he lived
Cowboy Poetry Gathering: Then & Now
Elko Free Press
FC 11 C-50
40
Mary Jean Risheim
Heat Wave
The broad cool of the barn gives way at the door to frame a perfect prairie scene of yellow grass, blue sky, white cloud
The Cowboy Christmas Story
FC 11 D-13
Sam Davis
Cowboy Christmas Story
For two years I'd been cowboying up along the great divide, and I'd headed home for Christmas which was about a two week ride.
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
1
M.B. Bill Dunn
Cowboy Cal: Is anyone all bad?
This is a tale of of Old Cowboy Cal, a railroad bridge builder and a number one pal.
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
7
M.B. Bill Dunn
Dee THomas: Does race separate people?
Dee Thomas, where in the heck had you been? I've been lookin' for you, my ol' black friend. Let's go get your old rusty twenty-two gun, get off this porch and give them rabbits a run!
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
11
M.B. Bill Dunn
Jackie and Joppy: What makes trouble?
Sit down, my friend, and let me tell you the tale of Jackie and Joppy--one to die one to wail. We were all just fourteen on that fateful day.
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
15
M.B. Bill Dunn
Jefferson Jones: Knowledge or Wisdom
This is a tale of Jefferson Jones, a black man with a face made mostly of bones. His hair was gray and his teeth bright white, and he worked on the freight docks to pass the night.
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
21
M.B. Bill Dunn
Kid Brown: Is anyone all good?
This is the tale of old Sheriff Kid Brown, the biggest, toughest, slyest man in town. Three hundred pounds and six-food-six he stood, and he did anything he thought he could.
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
25
M.B. Bill Dunn
Merrill Martin: A story of success?
This is the tale of old Merrill Martin, who boxed his matches in a square while carton. He bought matchbooks for a penny apiece and put names on then with a machine he'd leased. Hospital confined though just thirty-one, he did the best work of anyone.
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
33
M.B. Bill Dunn
The Townhouse Lady: What price self-pity
The Townhouse lady hated her life. She didn't like her roles of mother and wife. But she looked forward to her drink of gin. Of course, thought, she just had one now and then.
includes cassette tape
A Body of Work: Unforgettable Characters, Part I
FC 11 D-14
37
M.B. Bill Dunn
My Friend Dad: What use old Folks?
Let me tell you about my friend Dad, when I was a kid the best friend I had. He was my step-grandfather, you see, but that didn't keep him from loving me.
includes cassette tape
King of the Western Saddle: the Sheridan Saddle and the art of Don King
FC 11 E-18
Timothy H. Evans
My Father's Horses
FC 11 G-33
1
DW Groethe
I'm
like an old "H" brace on a far out corner leanin in an some askew.
My Father's Horses
FC 11 G-33
2
DW Groethe
My Father's Horses
It must've been a day for peace an reverie when my father took his pencil in his hand
My Father's Horses
FC 11 G-33
4
DW Groethe
Ol' Growler
McGrinty bought a yearlin' bull, a hereford, red an' white
My Father's Horses
FC 11 G-33
7
DW Groethe
Lost and Found
If every tool ever lost on this place decided to germinate, start breeding or cloning or doing whatever it takes to proliferate,
My Father's Horses
FC 11 G-33
8
DW Groethe
This Old Post
This old post was cut an' cleaned an carted up the river road
My Father's Horses
FC 11 G-33
10
DW Groethe
Roughstock
Thunder, wrapped in hoof, hide and hair, a-waitin' the storm rider.