FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
27
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
What I Like
I like older women.
houses, folks, snow
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
28
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Ranch Land
Ranch land, ranch land; Everywhere I look.
ranch, catalog, book
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
28
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Fat Calved Women
I always wanted to be a cowboy; And play with cowboy toys; Horses and thin air, mountain mornings.
independence, bar, hat, fat, fast cars
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
29
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Campin' 81
Sleeping next to the camp fire with my kids.
camping, 1981
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
36
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
My Quest
Come with me my brother.
Indians
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
36
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Free At Last
When the fields again will be filled with grass.
reclaim, reclamation, future
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
35
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Surely He is Bound to Die
The cowboys were always the heroes; The Indian was always the enemy; The cowboy wore the white hat; The Indian never wore any.
land, Indians,
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
34
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
The Indians Way
You got to understand; To learn from the red man; We've got to understand; That we have to give back to the land.
Indians, Mother Nature, land
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
33
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
When the White Man Came
When the white man came; In his heart he came with lies; He came with greed; It was in his eyes.
Indians, treaties, Red Man, Whiteman
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
32
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
A Good Day to Die
Fighting for what is yours; Freedoms like the eagle that flies in the sky; You're proud to be a man; You would hear, it is a good day to die.
Custer, Little Big Horn, Indians, pride
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
30
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Greenhorn
Excuse me, What is that thing?
back East, big city, dude
A Montana Cowboy's Book
FC 11 A-05
29
Don "Cheese" Akerlow
Winter
A Montana cowboy, is where.
warm air fears to blow
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
1
Elliott S. Barker
Life
Life's like a wild horse; One must tame on his own.
life, philosophy
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
1
Elliott S. Barker
Sunrise
Cocks crow at dawn, When God, each morning, renews his first command.
religion, belief, sunlight, morning, commandments
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
2
Elliott S. Barker
Wilderness Temple
As a place to relax there's no spot that I know; To compare with a seat in a camp fire's red glow.
campfire, renewal, religion, god, faith
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
3
Elliott S. Barker
Perception Lost
His eyes are dim who cannot see; A mountain's purple majesty.
god
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
4
Elliott S. Barker
It Happened on Aspen-cade Day
The aspens were painted from russet to gold, Fresh cleansed by a copious rain, A breeze then sprang up and away the clouds rolled; Late sun began shining again.
aspen, heaven and earth, beauty of earth, rainbow, color
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
4
Elliott S. Barker
A Day to Honor
There's a Christmas day and New Year's too, And February twenty-two, Thanksgiving day and July four, And Arbor day makes just more.
Mother's Day, mother, mothers, holiday
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
5
Elliott S. Barker
In Memory
To him the mountains were sublime; And meant for men like him to climb, Then from their crests survey God's land; From snow-capped peaks to desert land.
Harold Walter, in memory of, epitaph
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
6
Elliott S. Barker
Ode to the Mountains
Behold yon distant, noble, mountain range, Whose rugged peaks reach toward the sky, Defying time it stands with little change; As centuries go marching by.
purple majesty, the creator, belief, landscape
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
7
Elliott S. Barker
Mirages of the Plains
Mirages, phantom dancers of the western plains; Deceivers, in the days of wagon trains.
illusions, lakes, wagon train, pioneers
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
8
Elliott S. Barker
Sunrise from a High Mountain Top
Cocks crow at dawn when God, each morn, renews; His first command.
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
9
Elliott S. Barker
The Silver Rim
Glum were the riders when the camp was pitched; In heart of the wilderness, Riding through rain and fog all day; Had wrought an unhappy stress.
pitch camp, new day, dawn
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
10
Elliott S. Barker
Our Golden Wedding Day
Though trips may be short they are sure to seem long; When travel companions turn out to be wrong.
spouse, marriage, wife
A Medley of Wilderness and Other Poems
FC 11 B-01
11
Elliott S. Barker
Tomorrow We Will Go Again
Just fifty years ago today, as I recall, I took my bride where wildflowers bloom and trees grow tall.
marriage, love, wife, pack