FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
32
Terry Henderson
Rattlesnakes And Tourists
I have a mountain pasture with a clear and sparking stream. It's as pretty as a picture like many artists dream. I pasture purebred cattle there.
critters, snake town, camper, snooper, summer
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
34
Terry Henderson
Unprotected Species
"Save the wolf! Save the bears! Save the big mountain lion! Remember the ferrets!" the naturalists are cryin'. This all is quite true.
believe, habit, survivor, ejected, murder
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
36
Katie Lee
All My Rivers Are Gone
My place was yours for a time time. You force on time a measure--live within units, segments, compartments, limits--Taking the joy and pain of today,
future, desire, clean, Twentieth Century, scoriform, stones
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
40
Virginia Bennett
My Environmentalist Poem
While travelin' down the road, we stopped at a gas station I bought a local paper, and began to glean its information. Something really burned me up,
wisdom, outlaw, rancher, nameless, homesteaders
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
42
Sally Bates
Public Use Of Grazing Land
Bottles, cups and plastic bags toilet paper, cans, baby diapers, cardboard box strewn by human hands. Stop signs full of bullet holes windmills torn apart cattle shot between the eyes,
recreation, destruction, cowboys, culprits, trash
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
44
Mike Logan
Letter To Town
I'd thought I'd write you folks in town who like to eat my beef, but if the price goes up two cents are plumb prostrate with grief. You don't like poisonin' gophers
wolves, experts, snowballs, backyard, plan, bear
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
40
The Texas Rangers
Come, all you Texas Rangers, wherever you may be;
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
41. 43
Vengeance
'Twas a cold winter night on the lonely plains,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
42-43
Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo! Git along little dogies!
As I was walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a cowpuncher all riding alone.
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
46
Scott Preston
The New Migration
They escape to the central Idaho Rockies 900 miles from the main office in downtown L.A. 140 miles from the nearest major airline 14 miles from the airport three-quarters of a mile up some narrow draw
timbers, FedEx, security systems, trespasser
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
47
Scott Preston
Richfield
In the cities the proles still dream of such wide open spaces a man might ultimately confront his true demons and evolve beyond them. These fantasies help keep the professional classes in line
preservation, homestead, dream, heatless, mortgage, wrappers, support
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
44, 46, 48
In the evening by the moonlight
In de ebening by de moonlight when dis darkies work was over, we would gather round de fire till de hoe-cake it was done
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
45
Kindness
When all seems dark and dreary, and grief, your heart bows down
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
48
Greg Keeler
Breakfast At The New World Cafe
Last night I dreamed I lost my cowboy hat in the ion storms of Neptune which is odd because I gave up my cowboy hat for a baseball cap years ago, and I'm not sure what an ion is.
foothills, reverse, snow, blanket, hell, rightful
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
45
Then and Now
If I were a man, said the budding youth, a wondrous man I'd be
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
47
That big rock candy mountain
On a summer day in the month of May a burly bum came hiking, down a shady lane thru sugar cane.
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
50
Greg Keeler
Excerpts From New Improved Coyote
The doctor put the tongue depressor in the coyote's mouth. "Say ahhh," siad the doctor. "Ahhh," said the coyote. A fly flew into the coyote's mouth "Ahhrrrgggg," said the coyote. "Don't worry," said the doctor.
invitation, cow pie, flies, spring, screw
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
49, 51
Henry Van Dyke
America for me
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down among famous palaces and ciities of renown,
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
50, 52, 54
I'll take you home again Kathleen
I'll take you home again, Kathleen, across the ocean wild and wide,
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
51
Charles Potts
Environmental Impact Statement
Would it do the do-gooders any good to know that people in concentrations of more than a few hundred are an environmental disaster?
revenge, scavenger, sin, billions, care
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
51
M. A. Kidder
What became of a lie
First, somebody told it, then the room wouldn't hold it; so the busy tongue rolled it till they got it outside
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
53, 55
When the leaves begin to turn
When the leaves begin to turn, and the summer days have passed
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
55
John F. Finn, Flushing
My mother
My mother she rocked and rocked me to sleep, while the stars in the heaven through a window did peep
Famous Cowboy and Mountain Ballads
FC 11 F-23
57
George L. McDermott, M.D.
The cowboy's grave
They laid him away beside the trail
Dry Crik Review (Environmental Issue): Fall 1991
John C. Dofflemyer
FC 11 D-20
52
Sunny Hancock
Ode To The Spotted Owl
This old world is in a turmoil in most everybody's view. Seems like we all have different notions of the things we ought to do. From balancing the budget to the price of Foreign Aid
cavegirl, wilderness, extinct, humankind, varmit