FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

The Round-up Stray

When the shadows lengthen.

roundup, night, evening, trail, night herding

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

The Rattlesnake Mountains

Do you know the Rattlesnake Mountains.

nature, land, mountain, home, courage, wife, mother

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

To Natrona County Pioneers -- 1935

It's grand that we can gather.

settlers, Wyoming, past, change, history, Casper, reminiscence, memories

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Have You Had Your Dinner Yet?

Now I'm not the sort of fellow.

food, hunger, eating, cowboy, wife, cooking

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

The Calling of the Wild

The king lives in a palace.

bunkhouse, bunk house, contentment, companionship, friends

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

That Weasel Mule of Mine

Talk not to me of Kentucky whips.

horses, breed, sagebrush, mule

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

To the Women Who Were Not Dismayed--1938

Today as I came down the highway.

covered wagons, plains, west, cars, automobiles, past, memories, change, progress, women, history

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Marine

He was sired by a Justin Moran.

breed, bred, bloodlines, horse, cow pony

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Wyoming Sage

No artist ever paints it.

sagebrush, livestock, feed, herb

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

An Eternal Cinch

I was toiling along in fancy.

Saint Peter, St. Peter, future, heaven, grub, food, cook

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Early Days at the Quarter Circle Six

"Backward, turn backward, Oh time, in your flight."

bachelor, cabin, memories, care, freedom, responsibility

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Just Tom's Way

Listen, friends, while a story I tell.

bronc buster, bronco, wolf, pelt, wildlife, trappers, Tom Darnell

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

That Snap Called "Pulling Camp"

I've rode the range for many years.

work, job, occupation, camp, sheep, lambs, sheepherding, Nathan Hale

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Wyoming's Race with Hell

The jest has been recorded.

water, class, people, Jews, wells, dams, dam, PWA, Uncle Sam, federal government

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Golden Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Speas--June 20, 1939

Pioneer friends are gathered.

golden wedding day, fifty years, determination, marriage, husband, wife, home, west

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Visions of Rangeland

Bring back the days of range land.

memories, pasture, west, plains, range

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

A Tribute to Percy H. Shallenberger

Just at the dawn of autumn.

Wyoming, eulogy

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

A Farmer's Wife

A farmer's wife in the days of old.

woman, female, WPA, work, housewife, housework, New Deal, change, progress, electricity

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Wyoming's Golden Jubilee

This year Wyoming celebrates.

celebration, state, federal government, statehood, Taylor Act, Uncle Sam

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Martha Earnest, a Pioneer

Do you know Martha Earnest?

woman, female, past, history, early days, west, settling

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Our Boys

They're off for a year of training.

west, westerners, crowds, freedom, space, army, war, swastika, training, boot camp

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Tribute to Ora P. Roberts

Today we are not gathered.

death, eulogy, loss

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Just Hay Wire

Have you started from the cow corral.

repair, fix, farm, ranch, bailing wire

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

Depression Days -- 1931

Now I don't expect to leave you.

people, folks, friends, reunion, hard times, pioneers, heritage

Cow Country Ballads

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Laurance Lincoln Jameson

The Gate of Perfect Balance

We've heard about the pioneers.

west, pioneers, settling