FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho Quilting Club

So once again we are faced with yet another dilemma in Querecho Flats. The Querecho Quilting Club needed a place to quilt that would not only leave their husbands alone for a couple of hours each week, but would give them a place to gossip where no one but the women present would know who they were talking about.

quilt, club, community center, blackmail

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho's Love Triangle

Well, it finally happened. All of the eligible single women in the grand and glorious village of Querecho Flats found out that they had been chasing (and actually catching) the same man.

catfishing, revenge, date, prank

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho's First Traffic Fatality

Well, the federales have done it again. They just had to stick their overeducated noses into the lives of some people who didn't want the help of the federal government anyway.

traffic, light, accident, death

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho Regularity

Everyone knows that it's election time, and after listening to all the candidates blow and go on national television, I'm just plain sick of 'em. Garlan, Karl, and I had just come from the Querecho Flats Community Center/Weight Loss Boutique and had settled down to a serious conversation concerning the solution to all the world problems.

politics, election, joke, prank

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho's Write-in Candidate for President

here in Querecho Flats we have on occasion been known to produce as a weirdo or two. I feel it is of the utmost importance to inform you that we are keeping with tradition.

vote, radio, president, campaign

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Village Idiots

Querecho Flats has a lot in common with most places that are of the same size. For example, it has its own little groups of people, such as the Church of the Better-Than-Thou and Per-Near-Perfect People, or even the gang over at Garlan's Mostly General Store and Post Office.

welder, joker, pipe, funds

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

New Enterprise For Querecho Flats

There has been a new enterprise introduced into Querecho Flats proper. Two of the area's leading ladies have discovered a new and wide-open livestock market.

livestock, barbecue, goats

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho Corriente

On average, I have at least six roping steers in my pens year 'round. This year I have only averaged five. I own six, but I've only managed five. You see, I have one that is related to that escape artist whodunit, or whatever his name is.

steer, escape, chase, kitchen

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho Flats Bimonthly Scorpion Stomping

In the fair village of Querecho Flats, there is a group of daring, not-so-young men and women who on occasion risk life and limb in order to protect some of the area residents from a terrible burning end. This particular group is known as The Querecho Flats Volunteer Firefighters.

firefighter, scorpion, gear, strip

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho's X-Rated Order

A while back Garlan and I got our little hands on a 27-X-rated catalog from some outfit in California. We ordered Karl one of them rubber blow-up love dolls, and it came in recently.

prank, sex doll, violence

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

Curt Brummett

Querecho's Hunters

Each year during the fall, most everyone around Querecho Flats is busy getting ready for the annual deer hunt. This is a tradition that has taken effect on just about everyone who has ever lived here.

hunting, deer, protester

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

102

Curt Brummett

Querecho's Booze

Well, I finally got it done. Yep, I made every living human being in Querecho Flats mad at me. Even the little woman is slightly miffed. Yep, I really outdid myself this time. The bad thing is, I did it on purpose.

bar, argument, petition

Welcome to Querecho Flats

FOLK COLL 11 B-78

107

Curt Brummett

Boring Days are Here Again

Since the fall cattle shipping is over, most of the ranch hands are busy with their basic ranch work, and the oil field is as dull as it always is, there seems to be an air of peace and tranquility around Querecho Flats.

rumor, truth, romance, secret

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Cowboy Culture

In 1541, Coronado and his conquistadors marched across what is now Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas, soon followed by others in search of cities of gold and souls to save. What they accomplished during their expeditions was dwarfed by the influence of what they left behind, the horse.

history, cowboy, essay, conquistadors, horses

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Youth and The Dream

Historians may disagree, but by and large the "romantic" period of the cowboy culture began about 1868 and was done by 1890. This was the time of the great trails, the Cimarron, the Santa Fe, the Chisholm and others. The railroads were expanding west and southward.

youth, civil war, railroads, enterprise

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

My Generation

Having a cultural discussion with a twelve year old can be an enlightening experience and at times more relevant and to the point than with most Ph.D.'s I know. in discussing the recent passing of a teen rock star, I was trying to make the patronizing point that this star really wasn't a good role model and probably didn't deserve all the media attention, and that there are far better examples to be followed by the youth of America. For a brief frightening moment, I sounded exactly like my own father in 1968.

generation, difference, define, attitude

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Class of '70

Venturing forth into a brave new world, the class of '70 was part of a new generation of Americans that would forever change the way we see ourselves and our culture. Having come of age during one of the most divisive wars in our history, the class of '70 faced a future and a country embarking on a path of irreversible change.

progress, change, history, compare

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

The Pope, The Pulpit and The Prairie

It is hard to believe that an event half a world away in Europe and inside the Vatican would have a profound influence on the American cowboy and in turn, today's culture, centuries before Jesse Chisholm or others ever thought of convincing a cow to move north.

religion, adaptation, cowboy, preacher

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Charity

Imagine if you will, a world without. A world without welfare, medicare, medicaid, social security, or any other government-sponsored safety net program. What happened if bad luck or misfortune enveloped you? In desperation, where would you turn? How would you survive?

charity, share, team, government

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Ugly Trucks

Sitting at a local watering hole one evening, I couldn't help overhearing some "good old boys" having a more-than-casual discussion about trucks and which was the best, worst, junk, expensive and other descriptive adjectives we won't use here.

truck, horse, breed, make

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Cows

As we continue to look at how the cowboy culture of the lat 1800's continues to influence our modern American way of life, it is easy to forget the fundamental driving force behind the entire epic. Cows!

cow, chicken, ranch, history

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

The Herd - "Where's the Beef!"

In a tiny park along U.S. Highway 81, on the north end of Wichita, Kansas, stands one of those historical markers that most people ignore and kids get irritated about if you stop and look at one while on vacation.

statistics, cattle, worth

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Uniformitarianism

Uniformitarianism is not a word you hear very often. In fact, the majority of inhabitants of the earth live their entire lives without once being exposed to it, although it has a great impact on who and what they are as individuals and as a culture.

uniform, history, change

Cul-de-Sac Cowboy

FOLK COLL 11 R-51

Steven Roberts

Spirit in the Wind

Nothing last forever except the wind and sky, so goes the song, and it's probably true. For countless centuries, long before man emerged on the journey of civilization, the wind blew, and the grass grew on what is now the Great Plains of North America.

spirit, america, history, wind, culture

When Pigs Fly

FOLK COLL 11 M-76

Les Morrow

When Pigs Fly

We came from afar at Christmas time, Wouldn't have missed it for the world. The sort of event for a center ring As a circus with its flags unfurled.

humor, pigs, flight, denile