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
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
44
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
49
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
53
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
54
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
55
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
57
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
58
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
59
G.W. Patton
The Emigrant's Dying Child
Father! I'm hungered! Give me bread.
cold, pain, suffering, California skies, grieve, death, sister, gold
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
60
John Swett
In the Mines
Leave the sluice and "tom" untended.
pick-axe, sorcerer, spade, tools, expectations, dreams, love, home
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
62
Mark Twain
He Done His Level Best
Was he a mining on the flat.
choir, ambitious, prayer, sinner, Hades, lie, steal, dance, drink
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
63
attributed to Mark Twain
The Miner's Lament
High on a rough and dismal crag.
Kean, midnight hag, Beelzebub, fate, love, struggle, pork and beans, tears, grief, turkeys, clams, hardship
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
64
author unknown
The Ballad of Tonopah Bill
Tonopah Bill was a desert rat who had traveled the gold camps through.
rumor, Rio Grande, luck, optimism, Milky Way, St. Peter, lawless mining crew, Saint, bluff, heaven, story, humor
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
66
author unknown
Californy Stage
Thar's no respect fer youth er age.
Chinese, days of Forty-Nine, gold, Sacramento shore, exhaustion
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
68
Joaquin Miller
The Days of "Forty-Nine"
You are looking now on old Tom Moore.
bummer, relic, memories, camaraderie, friendship, Monte Pete, gambling, New York Jake, Bob Cline, Hackensack Bill, Poor Lame Chess,
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
70
author unknown
The Dying Californian
Lay up nearer, brother, nearer.
death, prayers, faith, family, children, wife, homeland, ocean, farewell
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
71
author unknown
Humbug Steamship Companies (A Forty-niner Song)
When you start for San Francisco.
grub, bad food, promises, Golden Gate, Yankee Blade, captain, ship, Panama, Independent Line
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
73
Joaquin Miller
My Sweetie's a Mule in the Mine
My sweetie's a mule in the mine.
Tobacco
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
78
Margie B. Boswell
The Texas Ranger
In the old, old days when the West was young.
trail, Holy Grail, Indian corn, law, strength, tough, fearless, prairie
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
82
Mary Evelyn Moore Davis
The Battle-Flag
It gleamed above our Old Brigade.
Texan yell, riflemen, pride, blood, courage
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
95
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
The Daughter of Mendoza
O lend to me, sweet nightingale.
music, beauty, rainbow, gazelle, youth
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
93
Henry Herbert Knibbs
Riders of the Stars
Twenty a breast down the Golden Street ten thousand riders marched.
Angel Host, Throne Sublime, Texas, Cherubim, open range, petition, complaint, vote, Milky Way, Maverick comets, Taurus, Mars, Saturn, Lord, freedom
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
89
O. Henry
Tamales
This is the Mexican.
Don Jose Calderon, cacti, murderers, pulque, fleas, revolution, garlic, San Jacinto, Minie balls, gringos, Austin, Bradstreet, vengeance, dog meat, Santos Esperitos, Vicente Camillo, Quitana de Rios, De Rosa, Ribera
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
88
O. Henry
Last Fall of the Alamo
I am - excuse me, I was - the Alamo.
tears, solitary survivors, protest, indignity, Tamale Ville, chrysanthemum