FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Coming Out Of The Cowboy Closet (Cowboy Poetry, Pictures, and Other Stuff)
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D.L. Chance
Old Windy
Old Windy was a dude ranch stockhorse. Spend most of his time hauling city folks around.
Coming Out Of The Cowboy Closet (Cowboy Poetry, Pictures, and Other Stuff)
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D.L. Chance
A Cowboy Likes Gambling
I haven't met a cowboy yet who didn't love to gamble. I guess it must be something they're born with like a love of horses, or the urge to ramble.
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D.L. Chance
Dressed For The Dance
These three cowboys took out walking to a dance on Saturday night. There was a big full moon shining out overhead so they had plenty of moonlight.
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D.L. Chance
Wylie And The Movies
It must have been back in the early Twenties that movies really caught on, and took hold.
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D.L. Chance
Dusting The Cows
The sun was hot, and the dust was thick. It was some hard work at the pens that day.
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D.L. Chance
Waltz With Me, Maggie
1. At a barn dance up in Idaho, he watched her move round' cross the floor.
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D.L. Chance
A Gunfight For The History Books
"Yeah, it was a gunfight for the history books!", all the townsfolk looked at each other and said.
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D.L. Chance
Sister Mininie
I think Sister Minnie, the Sunday School teacher took a certain pleasure in being ill.
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D.L. Chance
The Lord Likes Cowboys
On a wooded mountain ridge, one sunny spring day taking a break, sat two hardened old cowboys. "I don't think the Lord likes us cowboys too much."
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D.L. Chance
Riding The Highway Horses
Now, I'm sure you've all seen 'em before, you know, those riding operations just off the highway.
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D.L. Chance
Mink Ranching
I bought the wife a new coat last fall and I made a pretty good purchase, I think.
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D.L. Chance
The Cowboy Fiddler
Cowboys have always like music. I'd guess that most of them have tried to sing a little.
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D.L. Chance
Old Man Zeke
Old Man Zeke Phillips was a tightwad. He owned the only bank in town, and he also ran a little pawnshop, too where you might pick up some change if you were down.
Coming Out Of The Cowboy Closet (Cowboy Poetry, Pictures, and Other Stuff)
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D.L. Chance
Coming Out Of The Cowboy Closet
"You'll never make it," my friends all told me, "and you'll be right back here soon enough." "Maybe you're right, so what can I lose?" I answered, "besides, I really like this cowboy stuff."
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Arliss And Deacon Caine
At the end of a big cattle drive in, oh, it must have been the late 1880's a bunch of the trailhands cleaned up and went into town
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D.L. Chance
The Skunk
I was told of an incident that happened on a roundup by the old cook who saw the whole thing.
Coming Out Of The Cowboy Closet (Cowboy Poetry, Pictures, and Other Stuff)
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D.L. Chance
They Came Before Us
As we approach the end of the century, there are those of us who look on with a certain hunger at the very last living links with the Old West.
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D.L. Chance
Real Cowboy Food
The item on the menu was just called "Cowboy Beans." Now this got me to wondering some. Just what did those old cowboys eat, and how did it taste?
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D.L. Chance
A Cow Is A Cow
The ad in the paper said, "Wanted, somebody to work cows." "Now that's right up my alley." the cowboy thought, "Since I'm out of work anyhow."
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D.L. Chance
The Shotgun Wedding
Of all the customs that mankind has invented for starting out in family life, the shotgun wedding has to be the most unique of the ways a man can take a wife.
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D.L. Chance
Hollywood Bound
A few of the boys were sittin' round' talking one year at the end of the season "What you gonna do now" was the man topic of discussion
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D.L. Chance
Mr. Lincoln's Atmostphere
I've heard that Abraham Lincoln learned to read by the light of a wood fire and oil lamp.
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D.L. Chance
The West Calls Me Home
I was born a southerner with my ancestry firmly bound to the birthplace of The Confederacy for generations on down.
"Cowboy'en Is Our Specialty"
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Wade Collins and Seven Mazzone
Camp Cook
Cooken out in the open over an open campfire pit. Makes the food taste a little different any how for the first little bit.
"Cowboy'en Is Our Specialty"
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Wade Collins and Seven Mazzone
Let's Call The Vet
Like most ranchers. I think I know how an animal is feel'en So instead of getten the vet, I try to do my own cowboy healen.