FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
14
Ray Davidson
My Prairie
I've traveled east and I've travelled west And I've traveled a lot between. But the prairie grass of these old Flint Hills Is the best I've seen.
kansas, riding, rural
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
15
Willnette Wallace
Kansas in October
Indian summer days lie golden across the rolling Kansas Flint Hills, decking the valleys in red and bronze and edging the by-ways in yellow.
kansas, autumn
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
15
Jack DeWerff
Livin' in Kansas
You ask why I live in the country, Out here on this Kansas plain. There isn't a mountain or ocean for miles, Just pastures and farms needin' rain.
nature, kansas, prairie
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
18
Author Unknown, 1880's
The Cowboy
A man there lives on the Western plain With a ton of fight and an ounce of brain Who herds the cattle and rides the train And goes by the name of cowboy.
violence, cowboy
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
18
Jack DeWerff
The Cowboy
He'd bucked off The Strawberry Roan. He was there on the Streets of Laredo the night That young cowboy died all alone.
legend, cowboy, history
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
19
Orange Scott Cummins, The Pilgrim Bard
The Cow Boy
Oh ye who know the cowboy not, Can never know his lonely lot; Lightning and cyclone, wind and rain, Will never make the boy complain;
cowboy, lifestyle
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
20
F. H. Maynard
The Reckless Cowboy
I am a reckless cowboy, the prairie is my home, At the early age of sixteen I first began to roam,
change, range, cowboy
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
21
Anne Browning Wilson
Herders
She brushed the spiderweb Off her cheek Reined hard to the left, And ducked beneath a heavy branch.
herd, pasture, free
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
22
Harold Carpenter
Cowboys Through the Ages
When ancient man domesticated the cow, For milk and meat and to pull the plow, Tending the critters was chore of the younger lads, So they were the original "COW" boys for their Dads.
history, change, cowboy
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
23
Mel Raley
No Trophy on Their Belt
There's still a few out there, And the cowboy life's their way of life, Than they ever did their pay.
struggle, lifestyle, cowboy
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
24
Jack Hurlburt
A Tie-Fast Man
Down in the thorny brasada, by the sleepy Rio Grande, Came a special breed of cowboy known as a tie-fast man.
dedication, honesty, honor
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
25
Phyllis Macy-Mills
The Last of the Handshake Cowboys
In a part of our country known as the West, in the land of the great Flint Hills, The bluestem rolls on forever, and in our minds it always will.
honor, honesty, trust
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
25
Mack Goddard
Will Rogers
He'd handled a lot of bad horses Rode a million miles in a coupe, But an aeroplane finally got him In a Johnny-blocker loop.
actor, cowboy, tragedy
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
26
Harry Mills
The Cowboy Poet
Sharp-Shooter Jim, a cowboy, roamed the wild, romantic West, ranked in his rough profession as among the very best; yet through his reckless nature ran a strange, poetic strain, Which turned his thoughts to rhythm as he galloped o'er the plain.
cowboy, stubbornness, author
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
28
Mike Logan
Ranch Girls
"Movin' cows is man's work!" I heard one young buck say. But Evelyn covered twice the ground He covered in a day.
gender, girls, work
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
28
Author Unknown, 1880's
The Brave Little Girl on the Ranch
Some may prefer the gay damsels of Newport Or the society pets of Long Branch But I would fain that my muse sing the praise Of the brave little girl on the ranch.
girls, bravery, lifestyle
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
30
Harold Carpenter
Headin' North
They were rugged men who ventured forth, With a herd of Longhorns headin' North, Facing hardships, wind and rain, Their destination a far off train.
cattle drive, trail
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
30
Author Unknown, 1880's
Ogalley Song
We left the Nueces River in April eighty-one With three thousand long-horned cattle, and all they knnowed was run.
cattle drive, difficulty
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
31
Stephen C. Bryan
Camp Cookie
The old wagon leaned hard then lurched on ahead. Pots and pans banged a tune as they clanked off the bed. The sun was low, time to make camp for the night.
care, cook, experience
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
32
F. H. Maynard
On the Trail
It was down across the Brazos That we rounded up to start, With about five thousand cattle For the busy Kansas mart;
change, trail ride, dodge
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
33
Guy and Pip Gillette
North to Kansas
Oh it was a fine and a pleasant day; We left Texas and the sun was glaring, Just a young cowboy with a string of horses Off to drive the longhorns north to Kansas.
cattle drive, longhorn
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
34
Jack DeWerff
Drover's Lament
The campfires died down to a few glowin' coals. Everyone's sleepin' but me And the nighthawk, he's out singin' to the cows About a gal named Annie Laurie.
cattle drive, travel, tired
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
36
Paul Oberg
The Five Hundred Young Steers
At the start of the drive to Kansas There was a great round-up. Oh, what a long ways! We weren't counting on our lives.
spanish, death, drover
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
38
Raymond Nelson
Kansas Cowtowns
When Joe McCoy chose Abilene To build his livestock pens, He cleared the way for longhorn herds And Texas cattlemen.
history, change, lifestyle
Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas
Jim Hoy
FOLK COLL 11 H-62
40
Michael Johnson
T. C. Henry Tells the Story of Abilene, Kansas
When Joe McCoy arrived from Illinois, spring of '67, the whole shebang consisted of only a few log huts.
abilene, cowtown, lifestyle