FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
The Decade of Cattle Empires
Prose: During the development of the range cattle industry in the 1870's, nearly any man of ambition had relatively free and open opportunity to get started in cattle ranching.
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
The Roundup of 1888
Prose: The Colorado Stockgrowers Association in Denver issued the following detailed instructions for the spring roundup of 1888 for District fNumber 11, including all of Weld County:
The Last Roundup
FC 11 B-61
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Wilbur P. Ball
Early Brands and Branding
Prose: When the first herds of Texas Longhorn cattle were gathered for the drive to Colorado and other destinations farther north, the owners of the cattle marked each critter with a "road brand" consisting of
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
The Roundups of the 1890's
Prose: Andy Ross, a neighbor who owned the Seven Cross Ranch three miles north of Briggsdale, Colorado, from 1917 to 1942, was foreman for one or more of the Colorado Roundups
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
The Prairie Fire
Prose: There was a big spring on Gerry Creek located wouth of the Price homestead in the open, unfenced Section 23, Township 11 North and Range 64 West. It was an excellent watering place for range cattle,
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
Chalk Bluffs Roundup
Prose: A small two-day roundup was held during the early summer of 1905 in the Chalk Bluffs area that ended at the Steve McCoy Ranch.
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
Fall Roundup of 1905
Prose: The fall roundup in Weld County between the "Greeley Colony" irrigated district and the Chalk Bluffs was organized during the latter part of the summoer of 1905.
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
The 1916 Roundup
Prose: The last fall roundup in northern Weld County, Colorado, that Jack Smillie rode in took place in 1916. The roundup crew met at Purcell, a town located eight miles east of Pierce,
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
Jack Elliot Roundup of 1919
Prose: The last Elliott roundup of 1949 was organized and scheduled to begin around the first week of October. Jack Elliott, Sr., Boss of the spring and fall cattle roundups in northern Weld County, Colorado,
The Last Roundup
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Wilbur P. Ball
Cowboy Song; The Last Roundup
I'm headin' for the last roundup. Gonna saddle Old Paint for the last time and ride. So long, old pal. It's time your tears were dried. I'm headin' for the last roundup.
The Last Roundup
Wilbur P. Ball
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Author unknown
Old Faithful
Old Faithful, we roam the range together, Old Faithful, in every kind of weather. When your roundup days are over There'll be pastures white with clover
From Poison Creek to Redwater
FC 11 G-40
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter One
Prose: Now I always figgered my pa was a good man. It seems like whatever he done, he always done it well, whether it was farmin, workin with stock
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Two
Prose: Now Ma always tried to teach us good table manners. Always say please when you wanted something and thank you when you got it, if you did. She was very careful about things like this.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
FC 11 G-40
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Three
Prose: We still had the ranch, so we figgered we could get a long. I tried to keep things goin, bu I just couldn't get it all done. If George had been there, maybe we could have handled it.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
FC 11 G-40
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Four
Prose: I taken the train back to Sidney and bought a horse andpicked up my saddle and headed for Richey.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Five1
Prose: Now there wasn't too many acres broke up on the section I'd bought from the bank, so I hitched a team to a stone boat and got me a pick and a cowbar and proceeded to clear the rocks
From Poison Creek to Redwater
FC 11 G-40
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Six
Prose: Like I said, I liked to do a little horse tradin now and again. I'll tell you abaout one of them deals.l They wasn't always too profitable.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Seven
Prose: Often on Saturday evenings, I'd go into Richey and set in Gardner's bar and pool hall and listen to the gossip. A lot of fellers would collect there for the same reason I did.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Eight
Prose: There was another time in Gardners when things got kinda hairy for a while. The drinkin crowd was all there and they was all pretty well into their night's work. A couple of young fellers come in and joined the festivites.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Ten
Prose: The name T Bone Railroad was given (for obvious reasons) to the railroad being built in to Richey. I'll try and tell you about it from what I remember and what I've been told by some of the old timers
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Eleven
Prose: Big Jones, some years later got into a difficulty with a feller named Moses Wilson over a slick yearling colt that Jones had put his brand on, and this man Wilson claimed it belonged to him. Moses claimed he had a ranch way up on Poplar crick, and maybe he did.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
A Horse and a Rope
Now things they was tough out where I gew up But we seemed to get along fine We lived up there in Montana Not far from the Dakota line.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Twelve
Prose: Julius J. Johnson was a big tall long geared Swede. He lived all by himself in a little log shack about fourteen feet square, on the bank of the crick, not too far from the river.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Thirteen
Prose: George Henry he'd filed on a rough half section about four or five miles from the place I'd bought on the branch of the crick out of Richey aways. He'd been there about ten years when I come.
From Poison Creek to Redwater
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Kenneth Goss
Chapter Fourteen
Prose: Clyde H. Filabau was another neighbor who lived for a very short while up on one of the north forks of East Redwater. He come from somewhere in the south or southeast, jugin from his accent