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
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
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
86
attributed to Toy Hale
The Cowboy's Lament
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo.
white linen, Dead March, graveyard, mother, family, love, fate, roving, coffin, dram-house, card-house, grave
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
83
Frank Desprez
Lasca
I want free life, and I want fresh air.
cattle, love, mustang, Ave Maria, San Saba's shore, Lavaca's tide, fearless, Kansas bluff, San Antonio, jealousy, dagger, Alamo, Rio Grande, Aztec, Old Spain, Texas norther, stampede, Rio Grande, death, sadness, sorrow
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
96
Amy Lowell
Texas
I went a-riding, a-riding.
plain, cotton, wheat, nature, beauty, bridle-rein, tram-cars, town, city life
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
98
Joaquin Miller
The Defense of the Alamo
Santa Ana came storming, as a storm might come.
thunder, military, cavalry, infantry, Mexico, battle, war, Travis, Bowie, death, coward, Persian hordes, Spartan band, nurse, victory
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
99
John Williamson Palmer
Cattle
Other states were carved or born.
Texas, characteristics, horns, hides
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
101
Berta Hart Nance
The Road to Texas
Beside the road to Texas.
pain, struggle, death
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
101
John Williamson Palmer
The Fight at San Jacinto
Now for a brisk and cheerful fight!
Harman, land-thieves, Santa Ana, Castrillon, Almonte, Portilla, Goliad, Sam Houston, Deaf Smith, dulce, cigaritos
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
103
Reuben M. Potter
Hymn of the Alamo
Rise, man the wall, our clarion's blast.
reveille, fight, battle, freedom, Thermopylae
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
105
James Jeffrey Roche
The Men of the Alamo
To Houston at Gonzales town, ride, Ranger, for your life.
Mexicans, Nueces, Santa Ana, Castrillon, Houston, Barrett Travis, Conception, Long Star Flag, Davy Crockett, battle, enemy, war, death, fame
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
107
author unknown
The Hell-Bound Train
A Texas cowboy on a barroom floor.
drunk, alcohol, dream, human blood, horror, devil, beer, atheist, Baptist, Jew, fire, speed, Satan, pride, sins, prayers, vows, regrets