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
459
Arthur Guiterman
The Prairie Dog
The Gopher remarked to the Prairie Dog.
rattlesnake, hypocrisy, democracy, talks, animals
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
454
Hamlin Garland
The Vulture of the Plains
He wings a slow and watchful flight.
alkali, storm-clouds
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
460
R.W. Hall
The Last Longhorn
An ancient long-horned bovine.
death, cow, noble race, progress, nester, fencing, barbed wire, change
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
462
Sharlot M. Hall
Road Runner
Out of the western chaparral.
bird, roadrunner
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
462
Bret Harte
Chiquita
Beautiful! Sir, you may say so.
horse, beauty, Morgan, hoss, river, drown, nephew, judge, crossing, flood, boys will be boys, hosses is hosses
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
464
Bret Harte
Coyote
Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew.
lazy, vagabond, Carlo, gray, outcast
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
465
Bret Harte
Grizzly
Coward, of heroic size.
strength, acorn husks, baby toes, epicurean retreats, Friar Tuck, fear
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
466
Vachel Lindsay
The Broncho That Would Not be Broken
A little colt -- broncho, loaned to the farm.
breaking horses, pride, Greek-footed figures, mules, harness, sledge-hammer
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
467
Vachel Lindsay
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring.
past, perfumed grass, wheat, Blackfeet, Pawnees, Indians
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
468
Charles F. Lummis
The Sidewinder
A lazy loop of lozenged gray.
greasewood, heat, sleep, mortal joys
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
469
Ernest McGaffey
A California Idyll
A road-runner dodged through the chaparral.
desert, animals, sun, heat
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
470
Edwin Markham
The Lizard
I sit among the hoary trees.
Aristotle, hermit, gray friar, eternal youth, animal
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
471
Dorothy Scarborough
The Organ Cactus
Up from the desert desolate and bleak.
nature, sky, storm, hurricane, symphony, music
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
471
William Haskel Simpson
Yucca is Yellowing
Yucca is yellowing.
cactus, crimson, beauty, sunset
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
472
John P. Sjolander
The Last Longhorn's Farewell
I hear a sound, like music through the gale.
dust, summer, heat, meteors, centaur, sensations, nature, earth, hunger, thirst, flood, disaster, food, death
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
473 l
John P. Sjolander
The Pine of Whiting Wood
Not to the fury of the storm, though loud.
sun, fierce, death-song, nature, White Cove, peace, victory
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
474
George Sterling
The Black Vulture
Aloof upon the day's immeasured dome.
silence, eagle, falcon, sierras, dream, sunset, thunder
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
475
George Sterling
Father Coyote
At twilight time, when the lamps are lit.
chaparral, milking-time, rum, coyotedom, turkey, cat, mice, animals, rabbits
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
477
George Sterling
Pumas
Hushed, cruel, amber-eyed.
dusk, danger, great cats, grace
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
477
James van Rensselear
A Note on Lizards' Feet
Out on the desert.
hot sand, wings
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
477
Owen Wister
The Pinto
At Guayamas I born in this various world.
children's hoss, Ingless ,trade, travel, Gringo, Injuns, cowboys
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
478
Charles Erskin Scott Wood
Sagebrush
Oh, I am sick for the sagebrush.
longing, smell, fragrance, familiar, home
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
479
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To Midnight an Epitaph
Under this sod lies a great bucking hoss.
hoss-heaven, soul
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
488
Arthur Guiterman
Coyote and the Star
This is a legend from Siskiyou Bar.
dance, flame of the Sun, Frost Wizard, Salmon, Sisson, satellites, Star-fairy, Shasta, flight, Indians, limitless space, meteor, moral
Best Loved Poems of the American West
John J. and Barbara T. Gregg
FC 11 G-09
491
John P. Jones
Silver Jack's Religion
I was on the drive in sixty, working under silver Jack.
Robert Wait, Bible, gab, sniggered, miracles, stories, Savior, religion, fistfight, Christ, hell, skeptic
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