FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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FC 11 N-15
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A.G. Nelson
Wild Cow Milking
There are a gaggle of great sports, That exist throughout the old west; But none sticks out quite like rodeo, And that seems to be the one I like best.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
2
Richard Fendry
Entrepreneur at Sundown
Prose: The filthy rags and torn boots that strained to clothe the young man provided a strange contrast to his gaudy studded holster and matching belt.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
15
Luke Warm
Sam Spade
Sam Spade had a slow business, Gunslingers weren't sprayin' much lead. Sam's parlor was frequently empty, the undertakin' business was dead.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
16
Buck Allen
Arapaho Facing Buffalo Soldier
See young blond captain ride before The hoard of troopers, faces black! The Buffalo Soldiers come once more Our women, children, they attack!
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
17
Glenn Sheldon
Journey South of Mexican Hat, Utah
Old woman sits on one diamond- shaped rug busy working hooked fingers through skeletal strings of another rug: blue expanding sky
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
18
Joan Schernitz
Dakota Rising
Rising out of the belly of the Black Hills, the raging ball of sun breaks through shoals of morning mist. Kitchen windows glow a mute gold, like the eyes of some great wolf.
Riding the Range With Floyd
FC 11 O-09
6
Floyd Oyhus
The Cowboy and the Model T
He was riding home at sunset The days work nearly done When he saw this thing a comin' It was comin' on the run.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
19
Skinny Rowland
Days of Wood and Rawhide
Now a long time ago, away way back in years, Montana state was settled, by determined pioneers.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 3 no. 4
21
Donna Jean Tennis
One Life to Give
Prose: "I can remember it," she began, "as though it were yesterday - that blistering August day. Everyone we saw along the trail mentioned that it was the hottest August in memory.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
2
Dusty Richards
A Sioux Widow's Lament
The wind would erase the tears and wails of the Sioux warrior's widow who had lost her man in battle. The young brave had ridden with Chief Gall from the camp of the Siouux and Cheyenne to meet the long knives.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
4
L.E. Payne
Contested Harvest
Prose: Widow Duncan and her eldest were tired, but happy, It had been a long day of berrying, moving from clearing to clearing to harvest the precious bounty for the coming winter.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
5
Birney Dibble
A Glass of Ice Tea
Prose: "Been dead a long time," Art said, peering down from his cow pony at the coyote. "Lookit how he'd just dried up and shriveled
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
10
Buck Allen
Shawnee Soliloquy
Once we did rule the Dark and Bloody Ground, That land below the river flowing west, And we were warriors, hunters of renown,, Who hunted well, put nature to the test,
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
11
Joan Auer Kelly
The Sheriff of Clay County
I'm the Sheriff of Clay County, and my shootin' hand is sound, as fifteen men could tell ya -- if they wasn't underground! I growed up in Clay County,
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
12
David Alan Nankin
If I Could Go Through Life Again
If I could go through life again I'd live out in the woods And strip myself stark naked Of all my worldly goods.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
12
Mel Waldman
Like a Candle in My Head
My mind is blowin' in the sand, Achin' in the cold of your eyes, A distant land, of good-byes, and Baby, it hurts to see you leave,
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
13
Skinny Rowland
Days of Wood and Rawhide
Now a long time ago, away back in years, Montana state was settled, by determined pioneers.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
14
Jean Calvonne
At Bent's Old Fort
Beside the River Arkansas the Cheyenne tipis rise, Tall and painted tipis reaching toward the skies, Just beyond, a fortress stands, and from above Old Glory flies
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
15
Dr. Richard H. Peterson
Before the Rush
Before the gold discover of '48 unleashed a force ands fury whose sirens call invited the world to rush in, California enjoyed colorful, carefree days of fiestas and fandagos
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
16
Joan Schernitz
Hombre
Shadings, he was all shadings burnt siena . . .polished oak gun-metal grey of thunder-ridden skies. Shadings. . .
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
17
Rane Arroyo
March
The black tree has never heard the sea. It is busy shivering. Until spring. Then it pumps life to limbs as numb as islands.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
17
Rand Arroyo
Try Angles
The blue vein in her pale left arm branches out like a Brazilian river. Ready to be mapped, it dives back into her shoulder.
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
18
Aaron Schneider
The Last Wagon West
As you left on the last wagon west, Squatting happily onh the china, I humped my feather bed bundle to the pierhead
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
19
Steven C. Levi
Slick - fFingered Willy and the Blue Ticket Hanging
Prose: "I think we oughta string him up -- sort of," muttered Marshall Cullihan as he reshuffled the battered deck of painted lady game cards from Paris
Tales of the Old West
Bane K. Wilker
FC 11 W-33 v. 4 no. 2
23
Joan Schernitz
Tenet
Down corridors carved through the Santa Ana's the seasonal windsift sweeps. Heightening senses. . .engulfing flesh in its' coral billows. .