FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
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Frank French
The Pioneer
Fill up your glass, O comrade true.
toast, experience, stories, remembrances, Platte, rheumatism, martyr lives
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
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Frank French
Idaho
They say there is a land.
idyllic land, fortune, gold
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
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20
Hamlin Garland
The Gift of Water
Is water nigh?
plainsmen, desert, Navajo
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
21
Hamlin Garland
Lost in a Norther
There are voices of pain.
prairie, Ladrone, winds, bullets, cold, sleet, snow, faithful horse, silence, hunger, helplessness, spring
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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Arthur Guiterman
The Oregon Trail
Two hundred wagons, rolling out to Oregon.
mountain pass, East, South, North, prairie ships, Missouri, bullwhip, pioneers, Kansas, Nebraska, Indians, Platte, Snake, Great Divide, caravan, Walla Walla, Columbia, trappers, British trader, Stars and Stripes
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
27
Sharlot M. Hall
Away Out West
Away, away from city and street.
crowdedness, land, clamor, silence, solitude, peace, West, space, West, wilderness, space, pain, regret, hope, vastness
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
29
Joseph Mills Hanson
Laramie Trail
Across the crests of the naked hills.
Platte, fear, ghost trail, carbines, sabres, bison, trooper, Snelling Fort
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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Henry Herbert Knibbs
The Long Road West
Once I heard a hobo, singing by the tie-trail.
future, hope, sailor, travel, night herd, cowboy, landscape
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
32
Eunice W. Luckey
Babies of the Pioneers
Tired cattle stumbled on the dusty trail.
laughter, innocence, age, adulthood
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
32
James Marshall
Oregon Trail: 1851
Out they came from Liberty, out across the plains.
emigrating westward, Indians, heathens, Independence Rock, birth, death, danger, faith, Milt, Ezra, Ben, mountains, ocean, dripping fir, homestead, conquerors, freedom, new beginning
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
34
Joaquin Miller
Crossing the Plains
Crossing the Plains
What great yoked brutes with briskets low.
buffalo, bullocks, captivity, majestic, kings
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
35
Joaquin Miller
Exodus for Oregon
A tale half told and hardly understood.
Missouri, Ohio, bearded men, travelers, hope, fear, exodus, doubts, brave women, trail, track, birth, death, prophecies, danger, desert, strength
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
38
Joaquin Miller
William Brown
Poor William did what could be done.
ox-whip, Mary Jane, mountains, nature
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
40
Sam L. Simpson
The Wagon Trail
Forward! The crackling lashes send.
oxen teams, rest, night, campfire, danger, exhaustion, dust, heat, desert, plains
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
42
Walt Whitman
Western Lines
The Missourian crosses the plains, toting his wares and his cattle.
oxen, expression, feeling, deserts, Western America, smell, odor, Kansas, buffalo, prairie, emigrants, stars
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
43
author unknown
The Oregon Trail
Away down yonder in the Wahee Mountains.
Zeke, galoot, city feller, shooting, Hezekiah, wedding, mountain home, baby, child, stork
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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author unknown
Star of the Western Skies
Lonely caravan a-rollin' through the night.
trail, guiding star, Great Divide, restlessness
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
45
author unknown
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Oh do you remember sweet Betsy from Pike.
lover, Ike, Shanghai rooster, spotted hog, whiskey, wagon train, Indians, Injuns, musket, desert, starvation, cholera, California, dance, Pike County, alkali, angel, divorce, marriage, lummox
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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attributed to Alanzo Delano
The Miner's Progress
A Pilgrim from the Eastern shore.
Nevada, pickaxe, tears, patches, Costar, flea, gold, hopes, dust, wretchedness, Irish roots, dreams, childhood, youth, New England, family
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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Anna M. Fitch
The Song of the Flume
Awake, awake! For my track is red.
wealth, Sierra, gold, ore, blue vein
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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Lucia Harwood Foote
Sutter's Fort, Sacramento
I stood by the old fort's crumbling wall.
magic spell, past, present
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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John C. Frohlicher
Miners
Alone In A Stope: It's worse than death, that hush.
silence, darkness, ghosts, Elm Orlu, Leadville, Granite, Coeur d'Arlenes, Comstock lodes, gas explosion
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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Bret Harte
Dickens in Camp
Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting.
Sierras, card games, Little Nell, English meadows, Kentish spire, story telling, hop-vine, laurel wreaths, Western pine
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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Bret Harte
The Society Upon the Stanislaus
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James.
Brown, Calaveras, Jones, fossils, Abner Dean, skull, mammoth, Thompson
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
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G.W. Patton
The Emigrant's Dying Child
Father! I'm hungered! Give me bread.
cold, pain, suffering, California skies, grieve, death, sister, gold