FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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The Pony Express: An Epic of the Old West

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Horseman's Pride

I gallop away on my mettlesome mare

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Nevada

Over Nevada I thunder, over her limitless hills

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Toyabes

I glimpse the majestic Toyabes, my soul entranced by the scenes

mountains

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Charles Rendell Mabey

An Indian Snare

But only sky pilots have time for discourse

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Sinks

On, on, I press under glittering stars

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Stage Coach

Like the flight of a swallow, in desperate case

stagecoach

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Treasures of Golconda

For ages and ages all races of men

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Carson City and Mark Twain

This city of Carson, encircled by hills

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Charles Rendell Mabey

California Joe's Story

Thar's wonderful sights and powerful strange

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Sierras

But stories of frogs and itinerant scouts

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Nuthin' Else to Do

Twar back this side of Simpson that I met the bloomin' stage

Nothing

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Lake Tahoe

I sing you of Tahoe, the lake in the skies

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Sierras in the Days of Gold

I speak to my bronco and tighten the reins

mountains

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Road Agents

I come to a lonelier spot on the road

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Hangtown, Rendezvous of the Gold Seeker

Down the endlessly turning and tortuous trail

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Kit Carson's Story

One night in the "Grubstake" I stood at the bar

whiskey, saloon

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Placerville

Into the town of Placerville

gold

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The End of the Trail

And now we draw night to the end of the trail

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Charles Rendell Mabey

Sixty Sober Seamen

From the port of Honolulu to the Philippines we scudded

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Charles Rendell Mabey

La Jolla By the Sea

There is a charm about thee ,La Jolla by the Sea

California

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Charles Rendell Mabey

That Old Thrasher

Can't ye hear that thrasher chuggin' in the yard behind the barn

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Charles Rendell Mabey

A Barn on a Rainy Day

Did you ever hear the patter of the rain upon a barn

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Huntsman's Song

I'd rather spend an hour with nature than countless cycles in a town

goose, geese, duck, hunting, birds

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Desert Sage

All hail the ever victorious sage

Nevada, sagebrush

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Charles Rendell Mabey

The Flag of the Soldier

You may ride on the wings of the morning