FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Author
Poem Title
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Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
112
Charles Badger Clark
The Medicine Man
The trail is long to the bison herd.
rain, medicine man, gods, thunder hawk
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
114
Charles Badger Clark
The Piano at Red's
`Twas a hole called Red's Saloon.
piano, music, saloon, thoughts
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
116
Charles Badger Clark
A Ranger
He never made parade of tooth or claw.
murderer, ranger, law and order, tracking, gunfight
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
121
Charles Badger Clark
On the Drive
Oh, days whoop by with swingin' lope.
cattle drive, cattle trail
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
123
Charles Badger Clark
Saturday Night
Out from the ranch on a Saturday night.
dance, Saturday night, girlfriend, courtship
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
125
Charles Badger Clark
Southwestern June
Lazy little hawse, it's noon.
June, spring, relaxation, wasting time, laziness
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
127
Charles Badger Clark
The Night Herder
I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin'.
night-herding, night, love apart, thoughts
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
129
Charles Badger Clark
Hawse Work
Stop! There's the wild bunch to right of the trail.
wild horses
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
132
Charles Badger Clark
Half-Breed
Fathers with eyes of ancient ire.
half-breed, Indians, White
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
134
Charles Badger Clark
To Her
Cut loose a hundred rivers.
love, devotion, woman
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
136
Charles Badger Clark
The Locoed Horse
As I was ridin' all alone.
horse, loco weed, death
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
138
Charles Badger Clark
The Long Way
Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble.
courtship, memories, youth
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
141
Charles Badger Clark
Freightin'
Forty miles from Taggart's store.
chuck, luck, freighting, wagon
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
144
Charles Badger Clark
The Rains
You've watched the ground-hog's shadow and the shiftin' weather signs.
spring, rain, water, seasons, rejuvenation
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
148
Charles Badger Clark
The Border
When the dreamers of old Coronado.
border, Spaniards, padres, religion, Indians, colonization, progress, invasion
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
151
Charles Badger Clark
The Bad Lands
No fresh green things in the Bad Lands bide.
Bad Lands, evolution, past, ancient history, prehistoric
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
154
Charles Badger Clark
The Springtime Plains
Heart of me, are you hearing.
spring, seasons, rain, valley
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
156
Charles Badger Clark
On the Oregon Trail
We're the prairie pilgrim crew.
west, pioneers, luck, wagon train
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
159
Charles Badger Clark
The Forest Rangers
Red is the arch of the nightmare sky.
forest, forest fire, fire, forest rangers
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
161
Charles Badger Clark
The Yellow Stuff
By the rim rocks on the hill.
prospector, gold, mining, cave in, trapped
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
163
Charles Badger Clark
The Sheepherder
All day across the sage brush flat.
sheep, wolf, poetry, imagination, thoughts, loneliness
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
167
Charles Badger Clark
The Old Prospector
There's a song in the canyon below me.
prospector, choices, options, seekers
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
169
Charles Badger Clark
God of the Open
God of the open, though I am so simple.
God, belief, city, country
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
171
Charles Badger Clark
The Passing of the Trail
There was a sunny, savage land.
rovers, history, past, progress, change
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
174
Charles Badger Clark
Latigo Town
You and I settled this section together.
settlement, youth
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