FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Horse-Thief Gulch

FC 11 H-07

Samuel Harkness

Albert Tupper

It was a long distance from London gutters to Horse-Thief Gulch.

character, ancestry, bloodlines

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Homer Spink

When Shorty hauls my month's supplies from the county seat.

character, Sousa, band music, fame, trumpet

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Wardrobe

Lake Boulder is a wanton without a wedding ring.

lake, water, nature, Colorado, change

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Rob McDowell

Rob McDowell lived at the head of Horse-Thief Gulch.

character, molybdenum, metal, mineral, steel, friendship

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Rim Rock

Protruding bones.

rimrock, nature

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Hetty Dill

Hetty Dill made analogy and golden doughnuts.

cup, kerosene, aging, old age, memories, loneliness

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Campfire

Red wound in the black skin of night.

campfire

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Reverend Ernest Teagarden

Brother Teagarden was a mild little man.

character, church, missionary, preacher, people, congregation, alcohol, drink, smallpox

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Gabriel Fenstermacher

When Gabriel Fenstermacher painted.

character, minister, second coming, Jesus, belief, Christ, dream, paint

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Snow Patch

Rag from Winter's cloak.

snow, winter, spring, violets, flowers, water

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

James Bagby

Jim spent fifty years in the hills prospecting.

prospector, mining, poverty, welfare, coffin, mine, gold

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Stewart Martin

The first intimation that "Curly" was crooked came from Tip Benton.

thief, mine, mining, salting a mine, ore, gold, rustler, arm, blood poisoning, amputation, amputee, death, kill, shoot, shot

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Taps

The dishcloth I hung up is already dry.

wind, winter, cabin, stove, flatiron, warmth, snow

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Rebecca Chubb

Aunt Beck had dyspepsia for twenty-seven years.

alcohol, medicine, husband, wife, illness, stepdaughter, stepmother, actress, Hollywood, hag,

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Henry Clay Clark

Henry Clark had a face like a coyote.

beard, whiskers, fire, stove, spit

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Shadows

Dark fat clouds travel the sky.

mountains, nakedness, shadow, writing, poetry, nature, mist

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Isaac Watts Ford

Well, Sir, I guess I'm the only man in Colorado.

mine, mining stock, poet, poetry, writing, game warden, hunting, venison, deer, food, welfare

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

John Wesley Miller

Greasy Miller was tunnel foreman at the Sphinx.

thrift, saving, bachelor, pension, gingersnaps, death, funeral, wreath, flowers

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

To a Star

You are the brightest star in the sky.

Bethlehem, Christmas, Christ, Jesus, Judea, snow, life, birth, death, goodness

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Simeon Butts

Simeon Butts was a drummer and called on Ike Ford monthly.

salesman, selling, envy, service, orders, garage

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Andrew Butts

Let every man follow his own hunch.

civilization, people, character, hunch, luck, mine, mining, prospecting, Carrie Nation, drink, alcohol, gold

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Wood Box

Halfway station to the stove.

wood, fire, firewood, work

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Jacob Spicer

There is complaint about this little world.

teamster, wagon, mules, truck, progress, livery stable, team, hauling

Horse-Thief Gulch

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Samuel Harkness

Timothy Cullens

Tim Cullens was the gravedigger of Horse-Thief Gulch.

grave digger, death, freeze, winter, soil, earth, dynamite

Horse-Thief Gulch

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101

Samuel Harkness

To a Mountain Spring

Do you like to kiss the fawn.

nature, water