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
313
Arthur W. Monroe
The Toll of the Desert
This is the toll of the desert.
bleached bones, warning, danger
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
314
Madge Morris
In the Yucca Land
The rim of the desert is the Yucca land.
mountains, moonlight, priestess, God, silence
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
315
Madge Morris
Quien Sabe?
Where do the waters go.
Mojave, Indians, wisdom, earth, water
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
316
Madge Morris
To the Colorado Desert
Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery.
mountains, rivers, silence, solitude, loneliness, honey, God, anger, creation
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
317
Gordon W. Norris
Mi Corazon
Spanish is the tongue of lovers, Music light as fountain-spray.
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
319
Gordon W. Norris
Song of the Border
South of the Border and north of the sea.
moon, mango tree, Mexico, music, gringo, seductive woman, Corazon, love, broken heart, outlaw, lovesick
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
320
Lynn Riggs
Spring Morning -- Santa Fe
The first hour was a word the color of dawn.
mockingbird, gold, black, Alameda
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
321
Ned White
Bones in the Desert
We found him there on the Desert.
empty canteen, dead stranger, grave
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
321
author unknown
I Wanted to Die in the Desert
I wanted to die in the desert.
God, spell, fascination, grave, buzzards
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
322
author unknown
The Railroad Cars are Coming
The great Pacific railway.
California, locomotive, New Mexico, prairies,
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
328
Charles Badger Clark, Jr.
The Sheep-herder
All day across the sagebrush flat.
woollies, Spring, poetry, sheperd's songs, smell, Kansas State, Bliss Township, Section Five, rattler's den, Minnie, pastorals, Eden
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
331
Pearl Riggs Crouch
The Snowstorm
Across the plain the wind whines through the sage.
tumbleweeds, snowbirds, snowflakes, cold
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
331
Maynard Dixon
The Plains
Give me the palins -- the barren and sun beaten plains!
grass, endless skies, valley, cottonwood grove, Blackfeet
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
333
Eugene Field
At Cheyenne
Young Lochinvar came in from the West.
cowboy hat, girdle, Mariana, justice, tough guy, clean out the bar
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
333
Eugene Field
The Wanderer
Upon a mountain's height, far from the sea.
ocean, sound, mystery
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
334
John Charles Fremont
On Recrossing the Rocky Mountains After Many Years
Long years ago I wandered here.
landscape, nature, beauty, fragrance, summer, winter
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
336
Hamlin Garland
Color in the Wheat
Like liquid gold the wheat-field lies.
fragrance, hawk, birds, sunflower, nature
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
337
Francis Henry
The Old Settler's Song
I'd wandered all over the country.
gold, prospecting, Puget Sound, timber, climate
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
338
Helen Hunt Jackson
Cheyenne Mountain
By easy slope to the west as if it had.
sun, landscape, Homer
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
339
Maurice Lesemann
Ranchers
They went off on the buckboard in the rain.
sage, westward movement, teams, steer
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
340
Vachel Lindsay
An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
The sun is a huntress young.
Indian girl, fire, rain, flowers, time, wounded deer, eagle
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
341
Joaquin Miller
Dead in the Sierras
His footprints have failed us.
madronas, hunter, grizzly, panther, death
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
342
Arthur W. Monroe
The Forest Fire
Rolling clouds of greasy smoke.
timber, danger, threat
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
342
Margaret Pond
Sheep Country
In spring the sheep are driven over the mountain.
wind, cold, snow, Capulin, chokecherries, mountains, Rio de los Indios, Valles
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
344
Clyde Robertson
The Yellow Witch of Caribou
The hills are high in Caribou.
spell, ravishment, Selina, whore, sawmill crew, jealousy, curse, witch's scent, golden hair, strangled
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