FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Composer
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Pages
Author
Poem Title
First Lines
Keywords
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
76
Edwin Ford Piper
The Neighborhood
Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave note
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
80
Edwin Ford Piper
The Banded
Who are the banded? Gather from the four broadwinds one hundred strangers varying
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
82
Edwin Ford Piper
Nathan Briggs
Through two small windows sunshine slanted in, To die upon the splintery schoolroom floor
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
85
Edwin Ford Piper
Mister Wiggins
Bill Dwiggins had been Billy thirty years
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
90
Edwin Ford Piper
The Claim-Jumper
Because it's cut in the canyon bank, you look
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
100
Edwin Ford Piper
Joe Taylor
September afternoon. The farmers' teams
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
104
Edwin Ford Piper
The Party
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
111
Edwin Ford Piper
The Key
Barbed Wire and Other Poems
FC 11 P-04
113
Edwin Ford Piper
The Driver
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
11
M.H. Porter
Hey Elko!
Hey Elko!, Nestled there, Beside the Humboldt, Sitting where the river flows to me
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
12
M.H. Porter
A Life of Sharing
Home from his day's ride, Smelling of sage brush and outside as always
husband, spouse,
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
14
M.H. Porter
Bristle Cone Pine
High on the Mountain adding rings of age, From your place above the lowly sage
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
15
M.H. Porter
Maggie
Maggie, we've never met--a century separates our time, Yours a different Nevada from mine
history
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
16
M.H. Porter
Rivers and Railroads
Rivers and railroads, lines that cross space and time
transportation, dreams
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
17
M.H. Porter
Chinese Laborers of the Central Pacific
First the road bed then the rail, step by step each mile a tale
railroad, train
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
18
M.H. Porter
Herman was a Hell of a Hand
When the bunkhouse talk went to dogs good with stock
dog
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
20
M.H. Porter
Capriola's Helpful Clerk
The customer approached the clerk, He said
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
21
M.H. Porter
Tall Tale on a Hot Day
I remember a day in August heat, road dust made puffs when you moved your feet
tall tale
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
22
M.H. Porter
The Short Straw
The time had come to start the colts, Each of us could make a pick
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
23
M.H. Porter
Leaning on this Old Pole Gate
Leaning on this old pole gate, thinking it sure would be great
corral
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
24
M.H. Porter
Sudden Storm
Behind an ominous curtain of black, the storm advanced across the valley
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
25
M.H. Porter
Eatin' Treats
When folks gather and talk about eats, All the good things they think are treats
biscuits
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
26
M.H. Porter
When Love Became a Corpse
I woke to find my hands clenched upon a corpse
death
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
26
M.H. Porter
Our Deserts
There are deserts in our lives, the arid times that scorch our souls and try our minds
Hey! Elko
FC 11 P-05
28
M.H. Porter
Train Talk
The talk of the train as it walks through the town
sound