FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Author

Poem Title

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Keywords

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Dirty Shirt Jake

Down out of the hills came Dirty Shirt Jake

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Rain

Desert ranges parched and dry, a molten sun in a brassy sky

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Booze and Views, 1930

Now being just a rounder, a noisy sort of sounder

alcohol, liquor, drinking

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

The Fisherman

The sun sinks down beyond the hill

fishing, trout

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Weep Not for Me

Weep not for me when I am gone. Too many tears are shed

death, die, dying

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

It Matters Not

It matters not just where I like, nor when the time or where to die

death

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Outlaw

I eased up to that pony, easy-like and slow

bronc riding

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

The Desert Shall Bloom as the Rose

Last evening I gazed o'er the Valley as twilight brought day to a close

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Range Cow in Winter

Have you listened still on a desert hill

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Ride the Rocky Ridges

Ride the rocky ridges, sandy wash or swale

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Badger

Homp and I rode in to Rush, late one sunny April day

bronc riding, buck

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Winter Nights on the Range

I cannot write of Hawaii or the waving fronds of the palm

beauty, travel, night

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

The Golden Years?

I have reached those golden years and really should be happy

aging

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Fall

Raucous caw of a crow on high, hung on ebony wings in an azure sky

autumn, seasons

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

There Ain't No Place Like Home

I ain't never been nowheres and I ain't thinkin of goin back

travel

Tumbleweeds and Corral Dust

FC 11 M-25

Vern C. Mortensen

Winter

Let's sing of the joys of winter snows

seasons

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

William May

The Columbine Remembers

Beside a country school house, there's a Columbine in bloom

flower

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Helen and Dorothy May

Just a Couple o' Ranch Girls

We heed the call of the open--out to the mountain land

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Helen May

My Treasure House of You

There is a chamber in my heart where treasured memories lay

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Dorothy M. Jarvis

Not Alone

All alone, through woods we walked, and together filled the quiet hours of day

love

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Anna May

To Dad

Oh me! This day's a tiresome one

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Frances M. Wheeler

Solitaire

There's a peaceful mountain valley on Salt Creek, where Indians used to roam

family

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Anna May

Love

Can love be where there's no sacrifice

god, belief, religion

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Frances M. Wheeler

God Was There

These eyes shone softly and filled with tears, as they saw the fingers and tiny pink ears

baby, family, child

The Columbine Remembers

Anna Bowie May

FC 11 M-26

Anna May

Verses by Mother

Yes, we had faith, but what good did it do, when believed that we had?

belief