FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Riders of the Leafy Spurge

FC 11 L-16

Bill Lowman

Plight of the Coyote

A room of fancy ladies and gents with drinks in hand. Were lenghty in discussion preserving the coyote of our land.This beautiful creature of Nature, his howl penetrates the night. They vowed to defend in honor this ol' scavenger's plight.

Riders of the Leafy Spurge

FC 11 L-16

Bill Lowman

Winter Feeding

This cold winter day on their feeding routine. Things were goin' smooth not to expect such a scene. Had the cow cake loaded in some old grease pails. Over the top they put on the bales.

Riders of the Leafy Spurge

Bill Lowman

FC 11 L-16

Harold J. Lowman

Jack

He was just a pup when I picked him up, over by the neighbor's door. I took him home, where he was to roam seventeen years and more. He was black and white and real smart. The next you knew he's hit your heart.

Riders of the Leafy Spurge

Bill Lowman

FC 11 L-16

Harold J. Lowman

Is Old Age Creeping Up on You?

Corns on my feet, a lump in my nose. What's wrong in between God only knows. One leg is a little short my elbow won't bend, my neck is some stiff there seems no end.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

My First Memory

The first thing that I can remember was when I was only a small boy of three. They were building the courthouse in Stanford and I was inspecting the job for them, free. It was jut about then that I saw the big house

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

A Walk In The Dark

I still remember well one night some fifty years ago, when Johnny Hardenbrook and I were boys of twelve or so. The night was black as pitch with heavy clouds, but fairly still, and warm enough to walk to Sun Creek Ranch across the hill.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Spring Water

On the Hardenbrook ranch, where we worked our own pace, was a pretty good spring on the way to Duane's place. We had made a small pool so the water could flow through a smalll one-inch pipe to the trough down below.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Old Socks

A little black mare, kinda spooky but tame, had socks on all fours, and so Socks was her name. She and I had been out on the trail all day, doing what, I've forgotten, but earning our pay.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

The Bull Story

In the summer the cattle could range quite a ways up the dry fork of Belt Creek to lazily graze. There were cow-and-calf pairs and two bulls that would roam until fall when the first winter storm brought them home.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

The Steering Wheel

I was often in trouble and nver got bored in the days I was driving my Model T Ford, It was simple to operate, easy to fix, if you knew how it worked and a couple of tricks. It has brakes and reverse and a low and high gear

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Basil Skelton

A few of us were hunting from a cabin, I recall, the one on old Doc Williams' place, one year in early fall. One night it snowed about a foot of wet and heavy snow, so we decided then the Model A would have to go.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

The Flat Tire

It was during the thirties when I was in school, and my Model T Ford worked okay as a rule, but one day Fatty Aamold was going with me to haul ashes away to the dump with the T.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

The Wash Tub

When I was five, or maybe four, and the youngest of us all, and we were lving on the ranch, the first thing I recall was on a summer Saturday and mom had filled the tub.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Growing up in Montana

When I was a kid and we lived where we did on a ranch about two miles from twon, then I guess you could say we were poor, in a way, with our revenue being way down. But we lived liked our peers for at least seven years- like forever it seemed to me then.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Drought

In the spring we had hopefully planted our seeds, and had tended them lovingly, keeping out weeds, as we waited, we waited, for rain. Tere was plenty of sunshine and long growing days, and the shimmer of summer distorted the haze, but we needed, we needed some rain.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Johnny's 1952 Rocket 88

"I bought a brand new Oldsmobile," said Johnny Branch to Mitch, "And now to pull a boat and such, I need a trailer hitch." Now Johnny was a welder, and a pretty good one, too.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

The Wild Ride

We were hunting as usual, Johnny and I, on a typical clear autumn day. With binoculars high on the top of a ridge we could scan a fair distance away. Well we spotted some deer in the Blacktails below, and some bucks in among them, to boot.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

The Flood of '64

The Missouri was racing and raging, its floodwaters tossed with debris. It was cloud the night of high water, so dark that a man couldn't see. We were working two shifts at the shop, and at midnight we quit for the night.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Saga of Lindbergh Lake Capers

It was late in September, I clearly remember, the first time we all got together. And every year after, with drinks and with laughter, we've gathered in all kinds of weather,

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Tale of the Kittiwake

There are many tales of seas and sails that seamen will relate. And the more they're told, they become more bold as seamen exaggerate. But I have a tale of the sea and of sail that is true as the gospel, I swear.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Midnight

I was thirty years old when I got my first horse, and what happened was none of my doing, of course. I was greener than grass in a pasture in spring, and, I'm sorry to say, didn't know anything.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Lady Got Lost

It was during the summer that Lady got lost. But it wasn't her fault; she had been double-crossed. She was still pretty young, just a year or two old, and she tried very hard to do all she was told.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Escape

It was one of those days when your wandering gaze is bedazzled by skies that are fair. And it still was midwinder, and sharp were the splinters of ice that still hung in the air. Now a couple of dogs had been sleeping like logs every day in their pen and were bored.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Wind and the Night Monsters

Late at night I hear the wind, as sleep is so elusive, howling so relentlessly, it's pounding so abusive. Gusting anger, making all the bushes bow before it. Never even tempo, making sure I can't ignore it.

Wind and the Night Monsters

FC 11 H-24

Carol Hample

Secrets

I have noticed that most of the people will boast, when they speak of the source of their pride. I suspect that a few of the people who do also have a few secrets to hide. To that simple perception I find no exception upon introspection of me.