FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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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
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
176
Charles Badger Clark
The Buffalo Trail
Deeply the buffalo trod it.
buffalo, bison
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
177
Charles Badger Clark
The Camp Fire's Song
I reared your fathers long ago.
heritage, past, history, knowledge
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
183
Charles Badger Clark
Plains Born
Westward from the greener places.
freedom, solitude, nature, land
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
185
Charles Badger Clark
The Old Camp Coffee Pot
Old camp-mate, black and rough to see.
coffee pot
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
187
Charles Badger Clark
My Enemy
All mornin' in the mesa's glare.
friendship, enemy
Sun and Saddle Leather
FC 11 C-12
189
Charles Badger Clark
The Fighting Swing
Once again the regiments marching down the street.
war, regiment, marching, soldiers