FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Yellow Kiva

There is a sprawling yellow kiva in our little town,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

Arturo

He wears a smeared red sweater.

Pardner of the Wind: Story of the Southwestern Cowboy

N. Howard (Jack) Thorp in collaboration with Neil M. Clark

FC 11 T-14

309

Howard (Jack) Thorp

Pardner of the Wind

Introduction and 10 chapters with Appendices and Index

Banjo in the Cow Camps Spanish Thunderbolts, Barefoot Horses, Five-Hundred-Mile Horse Race, On the Dodge, Billy ("The Kid") Bonney, Cowboy Humor, Death at Cornudas Tanks, Calendar of the Herd, Chuck and Gear

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

Palace Undertaking Parlors

Late at night, next to the post office

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Corner Drug Store

The children love to come here,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

Rosario's

At the end of the street, on the roof of the shop, backed by blue sky,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

San Miguel

The old Catholic college has a gray stone front of many windows.

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Oldest Church

There was a cross in the open here where the Padres planted Christ's standard,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Hat Shop

There is a telephone pole near the First National Bank that the horses have chewed.

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Tea Room

There used to be a red parrot swinging over the doorway.

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Bank

They have gutted the Bank Saloon and sold the stock.

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Garage

The gray stucco lies just back of the Plaza.

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Swimming Pool

There is a swimming pool in an orchard on a side hill,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Studio

There is a great gray north window and a big redbrick open fire place.

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

Casa Pintada

Around the long table with two stained wood benches,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Old Bells

Two old bells hanging in a garden back of the Sisters' Sanitarium,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Blind Wood Chopper

Where the Acequia Madre glides like a snake below the road,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

Flivvers

They come and stand in the Plaza and drink deep there,

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Plaza

Motors weave their mazes around it

Trail's End

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John Curtis Underwood

The Old Palace

It lies, a long, low procession of life epitomized, rough case in adobe,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Frijoles Room

They made an echo of antiquity

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

The Alcove

The light streams down from above through a gray wire glass sky light,

Trail's End

FC 11 U-01

John Curtis Underwood

Burros

We met four burros in the streets of Santa Fe one steel blue morning,

Cowboy Poetry: Contemporary Verse

FC 11 M-43

Larry McWhorter

Black Draught

"Good Lord, what a dink" I thought as the boss said "Put that black colt in your string."

Cowboy Poetry: Contemporary Verse

FC 11 M-43

Larry McWhorter

A Bad Start

The clock don't ring as early