FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Three Toes

He lusts for blood that's warm and drips from throats of fresh killed prey. Obsession drives his craving for the victims that he'll slay. Mere hunger's not the force that strikes with terror,

pursuits, executes, amateur, survive

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

A Woman's Wiles

The canyon walls once echoed with the violence and greed of cattle barons' crude malignant appetites. Their breed would prey upon the small man

craft, dream, angry soul, spawn, Amazon, jail

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Mustache Maude

Winona nearly has outlived frontier noteworthiness, discounted like a fallen woman, damned and dispossessed. The railroad never will pass through,

dreams, alcohol, rancher, graveyards,Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Stagecoach Mary

The .38 is smokin'. She has fired every shell. Her adversary's emptied-out his six-shooter as well. The mission employs both these hot-heads doing heavy work.

smirk, damages, dream, redeems, failure, interview

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

The Petticoat Revolt

Pale petticoats flap in the breeze that bears their righteous rage. The sisterhood is mounted, riding full out, set to wage a war against the demon that dispatched domestic bliss

social style, warriors, pretest, mobile bar

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Scrapin' By

The west was hard as bedrock as it kicked and bucked untamed. It trampled countless women, left them mangled, mauled and maimed. Some girls who bloomed grew

beauty, faithful, God, gambling, trade, gambling

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

War Paint

I am moving Robe Woman and have seen twenty-three summers. I am the daughter of Crawler and sister of One Hawk. The Hunkpapa Sioux are my people.

hunted, ancestors, reservation, peace, danger, promise

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

Bird Woman

Lewis and Clark did not name a single landmark to honor their teenage interpreter during the two years of their expedition.

camp, instruments, records, journals, language, buffalo track shield

Is She Country?

FC 11 B-76

Marleen Bussma

A Bad Reputation

The flat dry land lifts up its skirt and runs into the hills. A searing sun sits high above the desert where it spills its heat onto a loping coyote,

western tale, Sonoran Desert, outcast, reputation, replace, regret

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Vess Quinlan

By Any Other Name

Just short of 65 eating nitro like peppermints cranky and cynical he knew firsthand what poverty can do to a man cowboying for rich folks taught him what money does.

wisdom, impress, payphone, shy, spooky

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

Good Clean Land Still Wild

You'll never understand cow country's love for our ranching land still wild and free and clean until you've drunk your water from a tumbling creek drawn your breath on a pure,

sagebrush flowers, squall, ranchers, earth

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wallace McRae

Our Communion

He said, "This bread's my body." He said, "My blood's the wine." "Remember when you take it, the blood and body's mine." Our bodies are this fertile land.

organic mud, greedy, cremation, unsanctified, forgive

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

Keeping Her Free

Cowfolks ride the Earth proud and tall knowing their business don't hurt her at all raising beef on good grass that'll grow back again just trimming her hair,

excrement, pure, naked, special, smile

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wallace McRae

Eminent Domain

From the Highland sod, with faith in God, to this land, young and profane, grandad was drawn, long ere the dawn of Eminent Domain.

regrets, free enterprise, obligations, threat, train

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Sue Wallis

A Hundred Thousand Hungry Wolves

Sixty thousand hungry wolves eating cows in Canada another several grand in Minnesota nobody knows how many in Montana which seems to us a fairly decent quota

Yellowstone, taxes, extinction, needy, money, homeless

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Wallace McRae

Crisis

Get the coal out, with a tumult and shout. Yes, tear it out of the ground. There's a crisis to smite and cities to light. There's billions of tons to be found.

taxes, swimming pool, guilt, duty, faceless, slave, monster

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Rod McQueary

For Steve And Ted

Slim comes back, reporting after jeeping through the wood hills. He brings home no surprises, "Times are hard, there, for a drink." It's hot and drouthy, by October,

danger, windmill, trail, respect, wildlife problems

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J. B. Allen

A Good Lettin Alone Is Worth Two Workins

That ol "lonesome" comes a creepin - like a cougar in the night moving silent on them big ol padded feet. Strikin swiftly in the stillness of the high-up

moon, honor, reason, dream, challenge, implement

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

J. B. Allen

Silent Witness

The wind had blown for countless years 'cross oceans, lakes and land, as climates changed and creatures lived and died, barely conscious of the puny shapes

whirlwinds, pursue, desert, blame, scar, waste

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Buck Ramsey

Conservation

We've never owned a blade of grass (and, really, nor have you), nor held the title to a cow, but we've herded quite a few.

money, mystery, rules, ambiguity

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Alibates Ranch

Belonging

I'll ride these westward ridges slow and rein this hasty horse back so he'll wait for home, though unimpressed the sun is setting in the west.

darkness, past, judged, tumbleweed, harmless

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Audrey Hankins

Consequences

Jake made the change quite easily when the ranchers were forced from the land. In spite of a "cowboy mentality", he's a busy construction man.

windmill, fools, slaughter, eagle, silent

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Audrey Hankins

Friends Of The Wild Cow

If cattle are banned from public land, watch some do-gooder switch cows in mid-stream. She'll solicit donations for her new vocation,

congress, law, inhumane, steak, species

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Audrey Hankins

The Granny Cow

We found her on Silver Mountain, in the oakbrush way up high. A freckled-faced old granny cow with murder in her eye. She shook her bony, toothless head,

comfort, care, wisdom, trailer

Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991

John C. Dofflemyer

FC 11 D-20

Kell Robertson

The Old Man Goes Home

Under the discount store the fast food place the furniture outlet under all that asphalt is one of the best chunks of black bottom farm land

kiss, womanhood, garden, diapers, parking lot