FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Goes to Washington

Usually Ole is a perfect gentleman and reliable hand, but lately I have noticed that he sometimes forgets to shut a gate or fails to give my favorite saddle pony, Rex, his gallon of oats.

lobby, politics, washington

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Creates a Hailstorm

I once had a very weedy wheat field. Ole said it was because I was a poor farmer. I blamed it on the weather. This weedy field worried Ole.

hail, insurance, truth

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Primes the Pump

It was in the big depression. Most everyone had a solution for the depression. I had a grand plan, so I thought. And somehow it had gotten to the sensitive ears of the economists in Washington.

positivity, plan, gevernment

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

The Wild Cats

We had neighbors who were so kindhearted that they could not bring themselves to control the cat population on their farm. Consequently, they soon had over a dozen cats of various sizes and ages. The family decided to move and the cats were left to forage for themselves.

cats, milk, noise, injury

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

A Fortune Made and Lost

There is never a dull hour when Ole is around. I like to raises watermelons - good tasting melons. I don't care if they are small just so they taste out of this world, as I tell Ole. Ole disagrees with me.

watermelon, money, fair

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

We Find the Lost Gold Mine

Ole was showing me some souveniers he had collected on his many journeys. "Here is some fool's gold? It looks like real gold," I replied.

gold, yukon, rainbow, mine

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

The Flying Wheatbin

During the dust bowl days in Western Kansas we were short of money and credit so we often had to make do, so to speak. Yes, I remember I had a big cornfield that was suffering from lack of rain, but the grass in the pasture was even worse. I decided I would fence the cornfield with an electric fence and use it for cattle pasture.

rain, wheat, cornfield, kite

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Levels a Field

Ole and me both like the level land in Lane County, Ks. But we had one field that had a gully that was bothersome to farm or cultivate. Ole had spent years as a sailor on ships driven by the wind by sails set to take advantage of the wind, be it strong or weak.

sail, gully, dirt, wind

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Loses Half a Cow

My jovial hired hand Ole Olson was always getting into one predicament after another. Now he says he lost half a cow. But I will let him tell it:

half, cow, cyclone

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole and Paul Bunyan Woo a Princess

Yes, Ole and Paul Bunyan were bosom friends long ago. They were building OXBOWS on the Missouri River. Those graceful curves, you know.

princess, oxbow, missouri, flirt

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Hires the Prairie Dogs

I am sure Ole is not lazy, but on the other hand he does a lot of work to avoid work. Now for instance, he caught several prairie dogs - beg pardon, Ole said they ae not dogs but prairie squirrels and that they are a lot easier to catch than a common cold. Ole said a steel trap might injure them so he uses a stocking cap."

prairie dog, trap, hole, post

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Traps the Killer Cougar

Ole was a versatile fellow. He had trapped wild game for the park department. It so happened a few years ago that a mountain cougar invaded Western Kansas. It would kill a 500 or 600 pound calf, eat only the liver and then depart for places unknown. Or her might stay for a short time.

trap, cougar, friend, tame

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

The Rattler

My hired man, Ole, was a splendid fellow, but he was terribly lazy. Even lazier that I. So I bought an alarm clock. Trouble was, neither of us would wind it. So I bought Ole one that was worn on the wrist and was kept wound by the motion of the wearer's arm. But Ole did not stir enough to keep it wound.

snake, alarm, eggs

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Photographs the Eclipse

After Ole sold one third interest in his Alaskan gold mine he spent money lavishly. He was always interested in photography, so he bought elaborate equipment to take pictures of the sun in eclipse. To get this picture at its best we went to New Guinea on a mountain top - in cannibal-infested country, we were warned.

jungle, cannibal, travel

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole and Paul Bunyan Run for Mayor

Paul Bunyan and Ole Olson were good friends and buddies for many years and often engaged in some pranks that would have been unbelievable if I had not seen them actually happen.

mayor, missouri, priaire dog

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

A Narrow Escape

It was the year of the big wheat crop in Western Kansas. There was so much chaff and straw on the ground that the slightest spark ignited the stubble and soon the entire field was ablaze. We never saw so many wheat fields afire as we did that year.

fire, storm, match

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

A Visit to Australia

Our eventful trip to Alaska to relocate Ole's lost gold mine was nearing a satisfactory ending. Out Piper cub glided to a stop on the prairie in Lane Co., Ks. Ole had sent a telegram to Luleo, Sweden informing his sweetheart, Olga Lindberg, that he was coming to marry her.

austrailia, wedding, storm

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Ole Writes a Story

Ole has a good sense of humor and I do love to hear him laugh as he has such a jovial, merry laugh. It really is contageous and sets everyone a laughing. But one day, he was out in the barn and was laughing uproariously, but it was not his usual laugh. It was vulgar, ribald laughter.

story, writing, humor

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

Goodbye, Ole!

As I said before, Ole is a many-sided fellow, sometimes very humble and childlike. He could believe the cow jumped over the moon or the moon went over the cow with equal childlike pleasure.

resolution, teeth, new year

The Adventures of Ole and Andy

FOLK COLL 11 A-26

Clarence "Andy" Anderson

An Indian Attack (?)

It was springtime on the Kansas prairie, the scent of newly plowed sod was in the air. True, the buffalo and gramma grass was still dormant, but the ducks, geese and the sandhill cranes were northward bound, and were they plentiful. I wish I could have been there, don't you?

indian, jun, chicken, history

Will Rogers: The Man and His Humor

Wendell Mathews

FOLK COLL 11 M-77

will rogers, autobiography, humor, poetry, impact

Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'

FOLK COLL 11 A-23

Darrell Arnold

Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'

I learned about this gatherin' When a neighbor passed the word and it struck me as the dumbest thing That I had ever heard.

chicken, gather, poetry, irony

Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'

FOLK COLL 11 A-23

Darrell Arnold

What A Cowboy Knows

There's somethin' that a cowboy knows That makes him ride the land- His choice, a life that only he And God can understand.

knowledge, lifestyle, cowboy, plain, experience

Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'

FOLK COLL 11 A-23

Darrell Arnold

He Was The Wild West

Day in, day out, He's sitting there. He watches life go by. His horses sold, His saddle gone, His final days are nigh.

west, attributes, lifestyle, rough

Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'

FOLK COLL 11 A-23

Darrell Arnold

Still Hangin' 'Round

The day of the cowboy has vanished. At least that's what some people say. Like buffalo tracks in the deep prairie sod All the cowboys have faded away.

remember, forget, work, cowboy, food, culture