FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Buck Ramsey

Child of the Plains

I write from trees and mountain rocks; There aren't too many on your plain; I think of you and think of grass that covers place and place again

star, trees, sight, kind

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Luci Tapahonso

Blue Horses Rush In

Before the birth, she moved and pushed inside her mother. Her heart pounded quickly and we recognized the sound of horses running: the thundering of hooves on the desert floor.

baby, moonlight, Idaho, Montana, Chamisa Bah Edmo

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Savanna Scout Cox

Pack Mule

I'm a strong girl I can throw bags of salt over one shoulder I can pick up propane bottles and baby calves I pushed the door open like Atlas

emotion, stumble, scar, stubborn, resilient

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Luci Tapahonso

Sheepherder Blues

"Went to NCC for a year," she said, "was alright. There was some drinking, fights. I just kept low. It was alright"

surprise, Gallup, Oklahoma City, bus

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Larry McWhorter

Waitin' on the Drive

It's four o'clock when the cook's bell calls, Raisin' cowboys up from their dream. I pull on my boots and watch the red dust come puffin' up through the worn seams.

wagon, fog, caprock, drive

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Vess Quinlan

The Crossing

Rolling east in a brand new, black and green, Ford 1951 with Uncle Dell and Helen. I am past ready for real adventure.

Colorado, graduate, antelope, cattle

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Vess Quinlan

Futures

She watches him practice making his loop land flat and open around the salt block. He will soon be heading steers for his daddy at jackpot ropings

burn, action, borken bones, smile, tobacco

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Vess Quinlan

Passing the Mantle

How small he was and how he struggled with the work; He irrigated, fed, doctored, and learned, as I had, the difference between right and close,

approval, strange, simple, passage, son

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Linda Hussa

In 1908

Billy McCluskey half-breed half-horse hired on with Miller and Lux at Soldier Meadows to break horses. He just stayed right there at the corrals.

wild horses, range horses, work, alive

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Omar Khayyam

A Quatrain

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou beside me singing in the Wilderness- oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

wine, bread, wilderness

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Henry Lawson

Past Carin'

Now up and down the sidling brown the great black crows are flyin' , and down below the spur, I know, another milker's dyin' , the crops have withered from the ground,

death, trouble, neighbours, temper

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Katherine Fall Pettey

Morning on the Desert

Morning on the desert, and the wind is blowin' free, and it's our jest for the breathin' , so let's fill up, you an' me.

smoke, broke, smell, sagebrush

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

S. Omar Barker

Longhorn

They asked me "What's a longhorn?" Well, I didn't tell it scarey- just told' em "Whyn't you look it up in some good dictionary?"

Texas, perfume, breed, blood

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Bill Jones

Answered Prayers

Jake, the rancher, went one day to fix a distant fence; The wind was cold and gusty and they clouds rolled gray and dense,

heaven, god, beer, mug

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Wally McRae

We Never Rode the Judiths

We never rode the Judiths when we were gray-wolf wild. Never gathered Powder River, Palo Duro, or John Day.

future, canyon, gold, star

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Badger Clark

The Old Cow Man

I rode across a valley range I hadn't seen for years. The trail was all so spoilt and strange It nearly fetched the tears.

god, horn, real estate, tombstone, copper

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Robert W. Service

My Madonna

I haled me a woman from the street, shameless, but, oh, so fair! I bade her sit inthe model's seat and I painted her sitting there.

breast, laugh, hair, fee, god

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Joel Nelson

Shadow on the Cutbank

History wrote his epitaph when barbed wire cut the range while he was but an embryo adjusting to the change

horseback, traditions, mortal, dragons, deserts

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Johnny Ritch

Shorty's Saloon

By the trails to the Past, on the Plains of No Care, stood Shorty's saloon, but now it's not there, For Shorty moved camp and

bar, bull trains, bold, dance, tragedy

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Paul Zarzyski

Escorting Grammy to the Potluck Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed at Bowman's Corner-A Love Poem

Lean Ray Krone bellers through a fat cumulus cloud of Rum-Soaked Wagonmaster Conestoga Stogie smoke he blows across the room,

bar, greenhorn, saddle, Ethel Grammy Bean

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Paul Zarzyski

One Sweet Evening Just This Year

Sundown rolling up its softest nap of autumn light over the foothills, grass bales stacked two tiers above the '69 Ford cab,

buckhorn, gunpowder, blossom, golden meadows

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Robert Fletcher

Open Range

Western land was made for those who like land wild and free, for cattle, deer, and buffalo, for antelope and me;

god, sky, cactus, creeks, lakes

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

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James Barton Admas

The Cowboy and the Wheel

I kin take the toughest bronco in the wild an' woolly West; An' kin back him an' kin ride him, let him do his level best;

freedom, monkey, skill, rancho, stars

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

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Larry McWhorter

The Retirement of Ashtola

When a day's work is done in the limits of town a man leaves his job at the site, then he meets with his friends

ghost, fall, spring, eased, legend

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

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Larry McWhorter

Peaches and the Twister

Now Peaches had a knack for takin' things that wasn't Peaches'. But then hits thefts weren't for the loot the average outlaw reaches.

law, buck, wolf, tactics