FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Bob Fletcher

The Missouri

Yes, stranger, I came up that river.

river, Missouri River, past, change, west

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Bob Fletcher

In Yellowstone Park

Sez the she dude to the savage.

geyser, water, cost, heat, Yellowstone, tease

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Bob Fletcher

In Glacier Park

Sez the she dude to the ranger.

glacier, ignorance, boulders

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Bob Fletcher

The Desert Rat

Sure we've been out on the desert.

desert, burro, attraction, travel, wander, sand, mirage, Nevada

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Bob Fletcher

Come and Get It

Yes, I've heard tell of that restauraw.

restaurant, food, grub, cook, game

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Bob Fletcher

The Bed of Roses

She hasn't no Ostermoor mattress.

bunk, bed, sleep

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Bob Fletcher

Poor Dad

There's a whole lot of bunk and emotional junk.

husband, father, gender role

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Bob Fletcher

That Little Baldy Hoss

You see that little Baldy hoss.

cayuse, horse, cow pony, devotion

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Bob Fletcher

The Playing of Yellowstone Bill

There are some folks inclines to a fiddle.

music, mouth harp

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Bob Fletcher

The Octogenarian

There's a heap of idle chatter.

aging, old-age, old timer

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Bob Fletcher

Jim Crosses the Great Divide

I'm feelin' plumb sad and despondent.

death, Great Divide, pardner, cow pony, horse

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Bob Fletcher

Pulling Out

They say that you are leaving.

west, east, change, old timer

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Bob Fletcher

Spring

Air is gettin' mellow.

spring, seasons

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Bob Fletcher

The Belled Coyote

Ain't no one loves a coyote.

coyote, wildlife, bell, shot

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Bob Fletcher

The Big Sissies

It seems like this civilization.

civilization, people, culture, toilet, bathroom, tough, plumbing

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Bob Fletcher

The Riding of Alkali Ike

Of all the rides that I know of.

rodeo, bucking, bronco, storytelling, exaggeration, bronc busting, bunkhouse

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Robert "Bob" Henry Fletcher

The Wagon Train

Since these days of automobiles, flivvers, limousines, and sich.

teamsters, wagon train, freight, team, speed, gasoline, automobile, progress, change, power

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Bob Fletcher

The Saga of Johnny the Cow Hand

Johnny was a rider.

cowhand, spring, town, choices, epic

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Bob Fletcher

The Crazy Quilt

The cow men opine that I'm not quite all there.

sheepherder, sheep, alone

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Bob Fletcher

The Vision of Syr Layrde

Out from the castell de Cap Eli Layrde.

hunting, venison, deer, parody

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Bob Fletcher

That Kid, Bobby

When Bobby forks his Jimmy horse.

youth, imagination, play, make-believe, boy

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Bob Fletcher

Before the Days of Gasoline

Sure, that's the trail to Zortman.

automobile, progress, change, pollution, stagecoach, team, past, memories

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Bob Fletcher

Sunset

The Sun Chief enters his medicine lodge.

sun, sunset, color

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Bob Fletcher

The Ballad of Timmie O'Keefe

Oh, this is a tale of the Yellowstone Trail.

tipi, Yellowstone Park, Old Faithful, geyser, exaggeration, storytelling

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Bob Fletcher

Croix de Guerre

I'm on a high lope for the home range.

war, discharge, World War I, doughboy, infantry, Paris, Omaha, stockyard, peace