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
401
Louis Mertins
Rain Chant
Come the little clouds out of the Ice-Caves.
Spider Woman, Northland, offering
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
423
Carl Sandburg
Early Moon
The baby moon, a canoe, a silver papoose.
runner, Indians, Red Man's Dreams, Mississippi Valley
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
424
William Haskel Simpson
Homesick Song
Said the very old man at the drum.
desert, love, woman, sunset, longing
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
425
William Haskel Simpson
Navajo
Your desert land is.
squaw, coyote, white horses
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
425
William Haskel Simpson
Saddle
Hast in Dot Klish, just Navajo.
Chilchinbito, Chuska, Chinle, Shiprock
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
426
William Haskel Simpson
Taos Drums
I have crouched in your kivas by night.
white garments, sounds, music, silence, music
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
427
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Three Songs from the Haida: Queen Charlotte's Island, B.C.
Whoever can sing this song is admitted forever to the friendship of the bears.
see other entries same title: The Bear's Song, Love Song, Song for Fine Weather
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
433
Zoe A. Tilghman
Alibi
Six foot two in his moccasins.
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
231
Paul Thompson
The Golden Stallion
Out of all the wild horse bands.
death, grace, silver mane, Injun, Indian, Tomahawk Bill, desert, king of the herd
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
430
John R. Swanton
Bear Songs (Haida)
Chief, chief, that I am.
passage, grandfather, mountains
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
429
Lillian White Spencer
Hopi Woman
The children play with Hopi Katchinas.
squash-blossom hairdress, Tiponi, Corn-Mother, prayer-sticks, runners, snakes, dead
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
428
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Song of Basket-Weaving
O Cedar-tree, Cedar, my Mother.
love, chant, earth, mother, waters of love, harvest
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
427
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Three Poems from the Haida: Queen Charlotte's Island, B.C.
Song for fine weather; O good Sun.
clouds, fishing, request, hope
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
427
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Three Songs from the Haida: Queen Charlotte's Island, B.C.
Love Song; Beautiful is she, this woman.
mountain flower, beauty, cold
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
427
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Three Songs from the Haida: Queen Charlotte's Island, B.C.
The Bear's Song I have taken the woman of beauty.
gratitude, kinsmen, friends, offering
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
422
Carl Sandberg
Buffalo Dusk
The buffalos are gone.
dust, old times, past
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
422
Alexander L. Posey
On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900
Down with him! Chain him! Bind him fast!
traitor, outlaw, respect, condemnation
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
411
John G. Neihardt
Red Cloud
Sullenly a gale.
Bozeman Trail, Fort Laramie, Great White Father, Sioux, Missouri, Inyan Kara, Arapaho, Dakota, Cheyenne, rattlesnake, Long Knife, Ogallala, Brules, Spotted Tail, teepees, Tongue, Rosebud,, Madison, Man Afraid, Platte, Colonel Maynadier, half-breed, Utes, terror, despair, Swift Bear, Black Horse, Julesberg, Pumpkin Creek, Chimney Rock, Mitchell Post, Carrington
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
401
John G. Neihardt
The Death of Crazy Horse
And now 'twas done.
Little Powder, frontier, Sioux, Dog Creek, Inyan Kara, North Cheyenne, starvation, Dull Knife, battle, Nes Perce Joseph, Bitter Root, Big Hole Basin, Mighty Spirit, Yellowstone, freedom, bison, Custer, Little Horn, Ogalala, Spotted Tail, Indian Police, Rosebud, suffering
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
433
Eda Lou Walton
How Our Forefather Got His Wife
Our forefather once wished a wife.
tribe, yellow dog, disguise
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
434
Eda Lou Walton
Indian Death
Land of the Horizontal Yellow.
old age, Dawn-Boy, sky-road, Horizontal Yellow
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
434
Eda Lou Walton
Love Medicine (Blackfoot Indian Song)
A yellow dot on her forehead.
charm, tipi, mocking eyes
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
435
Eda Lou Walton
The Marriage Dance (Blackfoot Indian Song)
I weave my blanket red.
patience, industriousness, couple, commitment
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
435
Ned White
Apache Kid
Ye traced me on the desert wide.
trail, blood, hunted down, forest, Indian, death, man-hunters
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
439
Mary Austin
Elf Owl
Elf owl, elf owl, what do you see.
badger, animals, rattlesnake, coyote, nighthawk, horned toad, rabbit, nature, land