Collection of poems written by cowboys in western
states, collected in 1984 by various folklorists in an effort to collect and document
cowboy poetry and to present a cowboy poetry event.
Repository:
Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library.
Special Collections and Archives Fife Folklore Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Historical Note
The Western States Cowboy Poetry Collection, housed at Utah State University, grew out
of a concerted effort by western state folklorists in the early 1980s to collect,
document, and present cowboy poetry. The idea for this work grew out of meetings of
state folklorists in Washington D.C. at the National Endowment of the Arts Folk Arts
Program and at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, a meeting with
the Nevada Humanities Committee with various western state folklorists, and meetings of
state folklorists at Utah State University in conjunction with the university's Fife
Folklore Conference in 1983.
Out of discussions at these meetings, the group decided to take Arizona folklorist Jim
Griffiths's suggestion to present cowboy poetry within the western states. Hal Cannon,
then Director of the Utah Arts Council's Folk Arts Program, and Steve Siporin, then Folk
Arts Coordinator for the Idaho Commission on the Arts, wrote a grant from the Institute
of the American West (in Sun Valley, Idaho) to the NEA Folk Arts Program to collect and
document cowboy poetry and to present a cowboy poetry event. The grant was awarded and
Hal Cannon was hired as program coordinator by the Institute of the American West to
manage the grant and fieldwork. State folklorists conducted fieldwork with cowboys and
ranchers in their state. For western states that did not have a state folklorist, Hal
Cannon hired folklore fieldworkers to conduct the fieldwork; Gary Stanton was the
primary researcher. As well, some of the collection came from a wide reaching "letter to
the editor" campaign to rural newspapers in the West conducted by Hal Cannon.
The poetry gathered during this project makes up the Western States Cowboy Poetry
Collection housed in the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University. (Along with
cowboy poetry, many cowboy poetry books were gathered during this project with support
from the Skaggs Foundation; these books are also housed in the Fife Folklore Archives.)
From this important fieldwork project came the impetus for the first Cowboy Poetry
Gathering held in January of 1985 in Elko, Nevada, the heart of Buckaroo Country, with
support from the Northeastern Nevada Museum and the Northern Nevada Community College.
Folklorists involved in the fieldwork project, and the states in which they conducted
fieldwork, include:
David Brose, Colorado
Hal Cannon, New Mexico and Southern Colorado
Dennis Coehlo, Wyoming
Carol Edison, Utah
Meg Glaser, Nevada
Jim Griffith, Arizona
Suzi Jones, Oregon
Sharron Kahin, Wyoming
Mike Korn, Montana
Cyd McMullen, California
Steve Siporin, Idaho
Gary Stanton, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah
Content Description
The Western States Cowboy Poetry Collection consists of six boxes of cowboy poetry
submitted by poets and collector from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and Canada. The collection is arranged by state
(country) and collector/poet.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following
information: collection number, box number, folder number and item number. The materials
do not circulate and are available in USU's Special Collections and Archives. Patrons
must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and
Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or
informant(s).
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the
Western states cowboy poetry collection must be
obtained from the Curator of the Fife
Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation :
Western states cowboy poetry collection, 1984. (FOLK COLL 11f: box, folder). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Chronological by year.
Acquisition Information :
Funded by a grant from the NEA Folk Arts Program, awarded to the Institute of the
American West.
Processing Note :
Originally processed by Barbara [Walker] Lloyd. Finding aid created by Susan Gross and Randy
Williams, May 2004; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Arizona State Collection
Container(s)
Description
box
folder
1
1
Abbott, Neil: "Broke
Hosses", "Morro"
Bartschi, D.P.:
"Sunday Afternoon with the B/O Ranch Boys"
Biddy, Dr. John:
"Bring Back the cowboys"
Caulton, Gayle:
(Submission from other poet: Buck Grayhand - "The
Inbetween Times Cowboy")
Cline, Susie: "Ode to
an Old Cowhand", "Old Blackie", "Wild Ones on the 'T' Range", "The Wild
Buck-A-Roo From the West"
Costa, TC: "Cowboy",
"San Felipe Rd.", "Warner's Ranch", "The Drifter"
Submissions by other poets:
Louis Akin - "Tantalus in Town"
Lena Whittaker Blakeney - "The Covered
Wagon"
Bruce Kiskaddon - Untitled
Crawford, Laura:
"Spring on the Ranch", "Alone on the Prairie", "Soliloquy of a Rancher's Wife",
"Whist Party at the Ranch", "1984"
Curtis, Linda Lee:
"Let My Soul Roam", "Take Me to Elko", "No Fish Story", "Pork Chops", "The
Horse Tank Kids - 1962", "Haystacks vs. Smokestacks", "House Calls
Only"
Frazier, Alexander:
"Roping and Running Free", "Bucking Horse of the Year", "Bunkhouse Blues", "On
Behalf of Brave Beasts", "Rodeo Cowboy", "After the Roundup"
Hadley, Drummond:
"Just Another Clearing, Arena Cutting Competition"
Hallford, Mary V.:
"Shorty"
Harper, Shirley R.:
"El Toro"
Haynes, Stanley G.:
"A Wrangler's World"
Heckthorn, Ada A.:
Autobiography
Submissions by other poets:
P.E. Fancher - "Adios", "Humpy"
Benjamin F. Fancher - "Reminiscence",
"Cowboy", "Nester"
Herndon, L.E. "Mick":
Untitled, "Pals of the Trail", "Our Hero", "A Summer Storm", "The Gunfighter",
"The Elk Hunt", "The Duel"
Johnson, Ralph: "The
Drifter", "Charlie Brown"
Johnstone, Andrew A.:
"The Owyhee Breaks", "Old Delamar", "Pretty Silver City", "Toll of
Advancement"
Larson, Karen: "A
Poem of Thanks", "A Recollection in Time"
Lerma, Manuel N.:
"Cowboys Are Forever", "Superstition Gold", "The Tenderfoot", "The Marfa
Lights", "Miss Liberty"
O'Brien, Bill: "A
Free Spirit", "Stone Eagle in the Sky", "Eagletail Mountain"
Patten, Ben Headly:
"Ode to a Cowhorse", "The Cowboy", "Ode to a Wild Cow"
Progressive Arizona & the Great Southwest:
Submissions by other poets:
D. Maitland Bushby - "Range
Philosophy"
Reeves Antell - "Autobiographical Ballad
of a Bold Buckaroo"
Jack Thorpe - "Never Loan a Plum Stranger
Yer Gun"
Peter T. Robertson - "Burro Bill Talks of
Hunkydory Holmes"
Quinlan, Ves:
"Selling Out", "little Joe", "The Blizzard of '93", "The Replacements", "The
Wonder Bar", "Culture Clash", "Spring", "Reaching the Colt", "Herding", "Sold
Out", "Pigs, An Awareness", "On Dreams", "Calving", "An Old Post", "A Matter of
Scale", "Saturday", "Sammy's Wonder Bar", "Just an Old Yella Cow", "Old Sam",
"The Trouble with Dreams", "The Manipulators", "Wild Horse", "Blondie",
"Futures", "Coyotes and Watermelons", "The Pebble"
Reed, Lois M.:
"Hearts and Hoofs", "On Smells", "The Horse", Untitled
Rigoni, Herb: "The
Cow Poke", "McDowel", "Old Paint and I"
Sheehan, Chuck: "Feed
Lot Steer"
Squire, Ron:
"Windmill's Song", "I Need a Catch Dog"
Taylor, Rick: "The
Occupational Hazard", "Ropin' in the Brush"
Vaughn, Jean: "Herd
Dog", "Pioneer Woman", "Gun Control", "Ride 'Em Cowboy", "Silbago (Return to
the Mountain)", "Fantasy in Phoenix, Arizona", "Undying Friendship", You Wanna
Be a Cowboy?", "The Pleasant Valley Feud"
Wagner, Alberta:
"Clarence"
Windes, William H.:
"The Cinch", "The Ballad of Cherry-Cow Pete"
Rolf M. Flake
Collection: "Northern Arizona Spring", "Northern Arizona Summer",
"Northern Arizona Fall", "Northern Arizona Winter", "Manuel", "Ol' River",
"Apache", "Loan Arranger", "Guess Who?", "Estate Planning", "Horse Sense",
"Social Event of the Season", "Frog Stranger and Gully Washer", "Just a Trace",
"Demise of the 'T.I.Z.'", "Silver Creek", "Cloud Watchers", "Tell the Banker,
'No!'", "Ranch Neighbors", "Ranch labor Problem Solved", "A Chip Off the Old
Block", "Commodore", "Yup!", "The 'Eyes' Have It", "Just 'Good Business'",
"Lion Hunters", "Double Trouble", "The 'Acid Test'", "Namin' the 'Ponies",
"Jumps or Lumps", "Navajo Lunch", "Only 500 to Water", "Video Auctions", "Too
Thick to Drink", "Thanksgiving Prayer", "All in the Point of View", "More' or
'Less", "Weather of No?", "Mexican Strawberries", "Time on His Hands or 'Alarm
Clock'", "Bull Only", "Shades", "No Argument", "Hold Tight to the Willows",
"Happy New Year", "Reason Enough", "No Le Hace Por Mi", "The 'Go Ahead'
People", "'Ground Hog' Day", "No Buck, No Luck", "When the Works All Done This
Fall", "Too Many Irons in the Fire", "Upward Bound", "No Disguise", "There's
Always a Reason", "Addenda", "Red-Headed Step-Child", "Angel Food", "The
'Austin Haught Method' of Choosing Cow Dogs", "The Cure", "Come and Get It",
"Catchin' On", "What's She Worth", "What're Ya Gonna Give For 'Em?", "I Dang
Near Died!", "Chasin' Rainbows", "Wild Goose Chase", "The Millionaire",
"Dog-Gone", "Tall Order", "Rangeland Delicacy", "Not a Tree in Sight...", "Time
Flies", "A Bummer of a Summer", "How do you Spell 'Relief'", "Mormon Buckskin",
"Will it 'Pencil'?", "Better Than a Snowbank", "Employment Interview", "Free?
-- Don't You Believe It!!", "Concerned", "Here, Kitty, Kitty", "High Finance",
"Good Weather", "The 'Forces' of Nature", "Seller's Remorse", "Boys Will Be
Boys", "Wild West in Georgia (Just Me and Earl)", "Golden Handcuffs", "Our
House is Your House", "Black is Beautiful", "Dog Food", "Snow Bird", "Well
Matched", "Addendum to 'Thanksgiving Prayer'", "Uptown-Cowtown", "Wolf, Wolf",
"Economics", "Endurance Contest", "Poor People Have Poor Ways", "Get the
Message?", "What's Fair for One...", "The Ballad of 40 Dollars", "The Deer
Dogger", "She Sure Is...", "Did Ya Hear About the One That Got Away?", "Prime
Mover", "The Snowflake Tragedy", "Politics", "Cow Buyers", "We Sure Need to Fix
That Fence", "Let Your Ears Hang Low", "Family Cow-(s)", "The Best Things in
Life--COST MONEY", "El Tejano", "Highest and Best Use", "Too Much, Too Fast",
"Ride 'Em Cowboy", "Squeeze Play", "Corriente", "Truth in Advertising", "I'll
Die with My 'Bird-shins On", "1986 Cowboy Poetry Gathering", "Reach Out and
Touch Someone", "Temporary Reincarnation", "Bi-Lingual", "A 'Two-Event' Man",
"Ranch Egg-o-nomics", "Ranch Labor Problems Solved", "Mean Mama", "Movin'
Camp"
Durmmond Hadley
Collection: "Out Drinkin' With the Boys", "Mexico Steer Buyer Billy
Brown in Love...", "Going to Jail", "By the Old Cantina Oak-Wood Bar Billy
Brown Considers...", "Telling Time", "Visiting With Two Old Cowboys by the Tres
Piedras Bar", "Reminiscences of a Cowboy", "A Covered Set for a Lion", "Staking
Out the Horses", "The Devil's Hole", "Juan's Last Trail", "Alma's Song", "Calf
Ropin', Dismount to the Left", "Just Another Clearing, Arena Cutting
Competition"
Chuck Lakin
Collection: "A Bright Vision", "False Tribute", "The Cowboy Past and
Present", "Reason", "The Early Bird", "Death of the Soul", "An Excuse", "The
Guideboard", "The Value of a Kiss", "To My Friend Ben Sikes", "Religion", "To
Alex Hyde", "A Letter to W.H. Maple", "How the World Was Rescued From
Chaos"
Katherine F. Lewis
Collection: "I'm Living", ""The Barrel Racer", "A Modern Chant",
Untitled, "Chute #1", "Thirst", "Branding Day", "Morning Once", "Playgrounds",
"Rodeo Joe", "Man Hands", "The Old Mailbox", "Fences"
W. Irvin Lively
Collection: "Colorado, A Legend of the Southwest", "Apache Trail, An
Indian Legend of the Old Trail" (Introduction, Setting, The Legend,
Conclusion), "The Champion Rattler", "Poor Old Judy","Cold Winters", "The Speed
Limit", "Transportation a la Mirage", "It Rained That Day", "Where Mosquitoes
are Mosquitoes", "Horse Sense", "Hot Lead", "On to the Ropes", "Dust to Dust",
"Tag! You're It", "Appendix, Appended", "Gas on Rye", "Gold is Where You Find
It"
Everett Wild
Collection: "The Lost Dutchman", "Desert Rain", "To Heaven on a
Cloud", "The Desert is Still", "A Midnight Visit", "A Desert Walk", "Blanket,
Gun, and Saddle", "Love Song to Arizona", "The Apache War", "Cowboy", "The Lost
Cowboy", "The Alabama Cowboy", "The Desert's in Bloom", "It's Morning", "The
Web", "Paradise", "Gratitude", "Moving a Mountain", "Almost There"
Astenius, Robert A.:
Biography, "A Lone Cowboy", "A Cowboy's Song 'On the Run'", "Someone Knew", "A
Lonesome Wolf", "My Wife"
Bailey, Colleen
M.B.H.: "A Bull Ride"
Bender, Bill:
"Remembering", "The Stuff That Just Ain't", "The Day I Climb Down From the
Horse"
Bowman, Cliff:
Untitled, "Cowboy's Resolutions", "The Roll of Quarters", "Just a Cow Horse",
Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled,
Untitled
Brown, Ed: Untitled,
"To Whom It May Concern", "Perfect", "Record Book or Men's Lib", "Buzzy",
"Saloons", "Cowdogs", "Cuyama", "The Right Outfit", "Eulogy"
Dorrance, Tom:
"Nevada", "Ridin' Schools", "Charlie Van Norman", "Halt Broke Hoss", "A Woman",
"Home", "A Bachelor Cow Poke", "Bronco", "Shed His Pack", "Slicker Break A
Bronco", "Gate"
Dylik, Joe: "A
Cowboy's Life on the Range", "Cowboy Rodeo Rider"
Ferguson, Gene:
"Split Rein Man", "Old Cowboys"
Fouts, Billy:
"Cowboys and Sailors", "Trackin'", "The Old Radio Show", Untitled, "The Fiddler
Just be Paid", "The Riders", Untitled, Untitled, "The Old, the Old Cowboy",
"The Wind", "Rest", Untitled, Untitled, "Mountain Morning", "The Sale",
Untitled, "Stand I", "A Packer's Yosemite", "The Packer's Art"
Gibson, Carol M.:
"Crimes Canyon Aftermath", "The Hawk"
Green, Roy: "Phantom
Black", "Cowboy Palace Show", "Cowboy Poet Roy", "Good Old Days", "Memories",
"A Would Be Instead of a Has Been", "Bruce Kiskaddon", "Notice", "Hi", "Front
and Back", "A Place for Old Cowboys", "Messing Around", "The Rodeo Bar Show",
"Top Hand", "Life's Trail", "The Thrill", "Murph Chaney", Untitled, "The Old
Cowboy Hand", "The Feeling"
Submissions by other poets:
Author Unknown - Untitled, "South Texas
Poem"
Bruce Kiskaddon - [See Box 8, Folder 3]
"The First Shoes", "To A Finish"
Gordon Martin - "Life's Highways"
Grace Douglas - "Sixteen"
Jessie Eldridge - "Martha"
Grenville Kleish - "I Will
Succeed"
Hamm, W. Howard: "The
Real American"
Hill, Jim: "The Rodeo
Woman"
Ilardi, Tony: "Winter
in September", "Old Truckee", "A Cowboy's Accident"
Kelley, Gary:
"Salinas Bound", "Larns Yarn", "Conversation", "The Weather Prediction",
"Daybreak", "A Gathering", "A Bit of Prose", "Last in Line"
Kemper, Troxey:
"Squeaking Saddles", "Grass"
Kraft, Ray: "A Pretty
Good Cowboy", "Ain't No Last Cowboys", "All the Way From Winnemucca", "Distant
Thunder Laughing in the Dusk", "Down in the Willows", "Eight Second Eternity",
"Legends of the West", "Nothin'", "One More Crazy Cowboy Dream", "Ruby Mountain
Morning", "Silver Spurs" "Sinner's Ride", "Song for Bob Nolan", "(The) Starry
Wind", "What the Mountain Said to a White Man", "(The) Wind is Her Whisper to
Me" [aka "The Eyes of the Eagle"], "(The) Wind Burnt Men"
Leach, John F.:
"Rodeo Cowboy", "Range Rider", "Stud", "Memories", "That's What Cowboys Are All
About", "Buck and Me", "Goin' Home"
Lott, Jim: "Cowboy
Heaven", "Chicken Eater Jones", "A Cowboy Made His Best Catch", Untitled,
"Waitin' at the Last Water Hole", "Our Cities 1983 - Where Do We Go From
Here?", "God Looks Out for Cowboys Too", Untitled, "Chute Flour", "Big
Yeller"
Mahaney, Michael:
"Goodbye California", "When Your Cowgirl Gets the Blues", "Movin'", "My Malibu
Mountain Home"
McCutcheon, Bob:
Submissions by other poets:
Doug McCutcheon - "The Old Summit
School", "The Way it Was", "The Old Fashioned Way", "God's Patchwork of
Color"
S. Omar Barker - "Buckaroo's Brew"
McCutcheon, Doug:
"The Cowboy and the Bear", "What Do You Know", "Our Valley", "Cowboys Are Funny
That Way", "That Damned IRS", "When a Cowboy Talks to God"
McGahan, Edward A.:
"Mr. Ed", "The Roadrunner"
Mote, Russ:
Biography, "River Roundup", "Smokey Joe", "Jack", "The Brand"
Nelson, Paula:
"Woodgrowers Blues"
Submissions by other poets:
Curley W. Fletcher - "The Flying Outlaw",
"The Sheep-Herders Lament"
Nippert, Clark:
"Headin' West", "Harness Shop", "I'll Take the Old Things", "An Old Watch",
"Your Pipe"
Submissions by other poets:
Harry Robb - "Old Pals"
Unknown Author - Untitled
Pauls, Clara M.:
"Cowboy Poetry Gathering", "Cowboy", "Final Ride", "Greener
Pastures"
Parkinson, Sharie:
"Uncle Leonard's Gunny Sack"
Pinney, Frank: "Lloyd
Leslie", "Booger Red", "Hook 'Em Ira", "Selling the News", "The Compleat
Catalog", "Tomaters"
Ranney, Helen:
Submissions by other poets:
Bev Poncey - "Eureka! A Paradise", "The
Chosen Ones on Branding Day"
Rooney, Joe: "The
Bravest Thing I Ever Done", "The Gunfighter", "Buzzard Luck", "Real Live Rodeo
Man", "The Indian", "The Cowboy", "Mother Mountain", "Mother Desert", "Whiskey
Man", "Where We Gonna Find Another Hero?", "I'm In Love With a Woman I Can't
Stand", "Ladies Love Poets"
Ross, Jim: "A Lot of
Bull", "My Father Taught Me!", "Go Get 'Em, Elroy", "It's Branding Time Once
More"
Rossi, Duane: "Sierra
Sunset", "Ecology"
Smith, Jesse:
Untitled
Turnipseed, Margaret
S.: "Poem I Never Wrote 'Til Now"
Vasquez, L.J.:
"Buckaroo to Banker", "The 1980 Spring Wagon Crew", "It's a Life", "Cowboy Up",
"We May Never Die", "Mules; The Facts, Not the Rules", "Dreaming", "It's a
Life", "The 1980 Spring Wagon Crew", "Cowboy Up", "Buckaroo to
Banker"
Mawson, Harvey:
"Bright Lights Beckon", "Prevailin' Conditions", "Real Wealth", "Uneasy
Partnership", "Cowboy Country", "Far Out", "The Modern Cattleman", "It Doesn't
Get Much Better", "The Science of a Difficult Art", "Saskatchewan
Trails"
Alberthsen, Holger:
"Freight-Train", "The Ballad of Johnnie McCalain", "Kilpatrick's Cook",
"Sagebrush in the Rain", "Howell"
Arnold, Darrell:
"It's Hard to be a Cowboy", "Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'", "There's Somethin' That
a Cowboy Knows"
Submission by another poet:
Rick Taylor - "The Bell Ranch Cowboy's
Lament"
Barker, S. Omar: "The
Murder Brand"
Becksted, Jo: "The
Cattleman's Prayer"
Black, Baxter: "The
Cowboy Poetry Gathering"
Clapper, Ivan "Spec":
"Reincarnation", "Saddest Story Ever Told", "Artificial
Insemination"
Croley, Lloyd M.:
"Outlaws", "Rattlesnake Croley", "Johnson County Invasion", "Killer Cat
Remembered", "The Last Ride of John Eldridge", "A Story of Christmas", "Self
Defense"
Dicke, Brian: "How
the West Was Won"
Henderson, Nyle A.:
"The Lord's a Good Cowboy", "A Point to Ponder", "I Can See By Your Outfit,
You're a Cowboy", "Nobody Home", "Bueno, Which in Spanish Means Good", "Thanks
to the Bulls", "Blue Horizon", "Life's a Shadow", "Morning Spirit", "Heavenly
Sent", "Loneliness", "Your Miseries", "Won", "Gone", "I am Loved", "My Tara",
"Rain", "To Nick", "A Day For Something", "A Daydream", "Ol' Horse", "Wind",
"God of Storm", "Triad", "The Wanderer", "A Dreamer's Wishes", "Where He's
Riding", "Your Love", "Smile", "Voice of Spring", "Ode to My 1040", "My Taxes",
"Myself", "Progress", "Life's Dreams?", "My Mother's Love", "I Cannot Forget",
"A New Beginning", "Everlasting", "Listen, Listen, Talk to Me", "Two Lovers",
"My Love", "Song in My Heart", "One Harsh Word", "A Child Again", "Daddy", "A
Soul's Secrets", "A Man", "The Dream", "My Life's Treasure", "Another's Pain",
"Grown", "A Mother's Love", "A Country Person Knows", "Pioneers", "These Things
Be True", "A Lazy Hoss", "A Cowboy Today", "The Mountain Lion", "The Drag Man",
"Yesterday's Woes", "Neglected Joys", "Jesus", "My Right Inside", "The New
Wisdom"
Hurley, Hazel C.:
"Did You Ever Ride A Trail Horse?", "Did You Ever Think?"
May, Bill: "Dusty
Saddle", "Two Horsepower", "Reply to Louis L'Amour", "Across the Great Divide",
"Quatro (A song)", "Cutters and Coors", "The Valley of Life -- Where a Cowboy's
King", "The Chariot Race", "Side by Side"
Randels, Gene K.:
[From Working the Rough String] "The Clown in
Santa Fe", "Tinhorn Charly", "To A Cowboy's Grandson", "Hooter and Stumpy",
"The Idol Maker", "A Dying Heritage", "Vanished Dreams", "Just Because" and
"Deep Elum", "Swamp Ghost", "Men's Gadgets", "Rich, Smart, and Good Lookin'",
"Getting Down on Brown Street"
Sankey, Ed: [From the
book Diary of My Heart] "Sunrise at Sea",
"Drunkards Paradise", "O Speak to Me", "The Makens of a Rodeo Cowboy", "Mighty
Sea", "Little Orphan Boy", "Dedicated to a Doctor", "New Man", "The Last Brag",
"The Kansas Kid", "The Champ", "At the End of Journey's Span", "Little Boy's
Prayer of Distress", "Diary of My Heart", "To the Dearest Mother of All",
"Cowboy's Lady of Fame", "Dutches", "The Spirit of Coal Creek Basin", "The One
Who Stayed Behind", "Name My Game, I and II", "Golden Anniversary", "A Cowboy's
Friend"
Sankey, Ed: "That
Galdarn Bucking Machine", "Nobility", "Eulogy", "Course", "Champion Rodeo
Cowboy", "Cowboy Mike", "Little Lady Dog", "A Cowboy's Friend", "O Palomino
Son", "Cane", "When Granny Tells the Tale", "The Last Poem", "Rodeo Cowboy's
Creed", "The Champ", "The Little Brown Crock", "Distance", "Rematch", "Cowboy's
Lady of Fame", "The Last Brag", "Cane", "Why Sankey Wasn't Shot", "A Courageous
Cowboy", "That Galdarn Bucking Machine", "The Kansas Kid", "The Makens of a
Rodeo Cowboy", "Sankey Versus 777", "Retrospect", "The Street of Life", "The
Old Shelter House", "Heaven to Sail", "Mother Earth", "Fare Thee Well", "Old
Patch"
Thornburg, Ed:
"Thoroughbred", "Don't Come Out West"
Watt, Jeremiah: "The
Proven Day", "The Silk Scarf", "The Line Up", Untitled
Unknown Author:
"Through a Gate", "Low Sweet", "Insane and Suicidal", "Mechanical Music", "Days
Yet Assigned", "Imagine, If You Can", "Quiet is the Night", Untitled, Untitled,
"Bury the Beast", "They and Not I", "Come to Me", "Her Essence, Her Illusion",
"Two Things", "To Brenda", "Take My Verse", "Somewhere I've Never Been", "Long,
Too Long", "Stop", "No Doubt", "Sugar", "Vast", "One Columbine", "Knowing You",
"Free", "Idle", "Things Private and Dear", "Dust", "Once Before", "Souvenirs",
"Blue Eyes", "Wait and See", "Dark Dreams", "Iffy History", "Old Number
Eight"
Walter F. Meyer
Collection: "Your Friendship", "Trust?", "Improvement", "Life", "Go
West, Young Man!", "Memory", "Right or Wrong", "Mother", "Joys", "Wild
Mustangs", "A Problem", "Air Castles", "Arizona Bound", "That Golden River",
"'Would Be' Versus 'Has'", "Drink", "Heaven and Hell", "For a Happy Life", "I
Wonder", "Earthquake", "Come Christmas", "The Undertaker", "Hunting Dog Slim",
"Just a Dreaming", "True Love", "In the Days of Nineteen-Ten", "In the Days of
Long Ago", "Winkelman in the Ten's", "Sport", "My Love for Her", "More Rain",
"Balancing Bookwork", "If in Life", "The Un-Peace", "Candlestick George", "The
Flying U W Twister", "Remembering Pearce and Sulphur Springs Valley",
"Identification Please", "Upon Reflection", "Out West", "Tomorrow's Hope",
"Proverb"
Emily Meyer Smith
Collection: "Reflecting", "Dad", "Prayer", "Future's Rosy Glow",
"Love", "1957", "Sunshine", "Lost Love", "Love's Passing", "To Minson", "A
Happy Heart", "Values Deep", "Nickels in My Jeans", "Ghost Riders", "Unknown
Destination", "My Daughter", "Metaphoric Advice", "Joe, Ol' Pony", "Green Below
and Blue Above", "Fear Walks Beside Me", "Judgement", "Pentimiento", "Music of
My Heart", "Too Busy", "Hands of Man", "Ode to Daddy", "Life's Direction",
Untitled, "Brahman Tame", "Why?", "For Heaven's Sake!", "Never-Ending Song",
"Winds of the Desert", "Snowbirds", "Thanks to the Bulls", "Blue Horizon",
"Life's a Shadow", "Morning Spirit", "Heavenly Sent", "Loneliness", "Your
Miseries", "Won", "Gone", Untitled, "I Am Loved", Untitled, "My Tara", "Rain",
Untitled, "To Nick", "A Day for Something", "A Daydream", "Ol' Horse!", "Wind",
"God of Storm", Untitled, "The Wanderer", "A Dreamer's Wishes", "Where He's
Ridin'", "Your Love", "Smile", "Voice of Spring", "Ode to My 1040", "My Taxes",
"Myself", "Progress", "Life's Dreams?", "My Mother's Love", "I Cannot Forget",
"A New Beginning", "Everlasting", "Listen, Listen, Talk TO Me", "Two Lovers",
"My Love", "Song in My Heart", "One Harsh Word", "A Child Again", "Daddy", "A
Soul's Secrets", "A Man", "The Dream", "My Life's Treasure", "Another's Pain",
"Grown", "A Mother's Love", "A Country Person Knows", "Pioneers", Untitled,
"These Things Be True", "A Lazy Hoss", "A Cowboy Today", "The Mountain Lion",
"The Drag Man", "Yesterday's Woes", "Neglected Joys", "Jesus", "My Right
Inside", "The New Wisdom?"
Submissions by other poets:
James Barton Adams - "Down on the Old
Arkansaw"
S. Omar Barker - "The Murder Brand",
"Saddle for Sale"
Badger Clark - "A Cowboy's Prayer"
Gene Clayton - "Concernin' of
Hats"
Ernest Douglas - "Belle of Bumble
Bee"
Curley W. Fletcher - "The Original
'Strawberry Roan'", "Flyin' U Twister"
Claude Foster - "Tax Him"
Mamie Franklin - "Ghost Town"
Harold Willard Gleason - "Stetson"
Clarence Leonard Hay - "The
Down-and-Out"
W.S. James - "The Cowboy"
Harry R. Keller - "Ghosts of the
Buffalo"
John A. Lomax - "The Cowman's
Prayer"
Courtney McCurdy - "Rope's End"
H.F. McKean - "The Horned-Toad
Blues"
F. Morris - "Old Bunker"
Arthur L. Rafter - "The Seat O'
Trouble"
The Trouble Triplets - "Brands"
Eugene Ware - "The Blizzard"
J. Whittaker - "Western Stuff"
Jim Wingfield - "Got to Sell Another
Cow"
Unknown Authors - "A Butcher Boy's Love",
"Lament of a Grease Monk", "Wilbur of Honolulu", "Cole Younger", "Mornin'
on the Desert", "How to Make Love", "Jack Middleton", "Buffalo Gals",
"Old-Time Cowboy", "The Night Guard Song", "Rhymin' Rambler", "The
Buffalo Hunter", "Roll 'Em Through", "The Barefoot Boy with Boots On",
"The Dying Ranger", "The Cowboy Lover", "Puncher", "Brooks' Bull", "An
Ode To Credit"
Park, Geneva S.: "Our
Trails", "The Red man's Downfall", "To My Country", "Dreams", "Winter on the
Ranch", "Idaho", "At the Foot of the Rainbow", "Near the Craters of the Moon",
"Little Log Shack"
Passey, Dorothy:
"Slug Creek Drive"
Pearl, Clara: "Spurs
Lament"
Pearson, Lynn: "Tales
of an Old House"
Perkins, Len:
Untitled, Untitled, "I Saw the Stars"
Preston, Scott:
"Pappy's Final Stand"
Schild, Bob: "The Kid
Solos", "The Roun Dass", "The Grass on the Other Side of the Fence", "Red
Avery", "Beans", "Bucking Down", "The Meadow Muffin Duel", "Two of a Kind",
"Please Lord", "Waterhole Will", "The New Hat", "Santa Comes Calvin'", "The
Riding of the Devil", "That Old Saddle", "Morning Cup by Campfire", "Top of the
World", "The Poverty Wagon", "Owen Barton Cowboy Poet"
Short, Iris Savilla:
"A Good Neighbor Gives to His World"
Short, Rayburn: "My
Cowpoke Ditty"
Short, Rick: "Wood
River Country and You"
Sievers, Don D.:
"Rain Fallin'", "U.S. Farmer", "I Know Him Well"
Smith, Vera L.: "Life
of a Cowboy"
Sparks, Trisha:
"Julie's Plight"
Spencer, Charles F.:
[From Western Poems, Gems of the Open Range] "The
Cowman's Song", "Common Sense", "Home on the Range", "Our Little Minister",
"Tepee Ring"
Sunderland, Ruth R.:
"To Nevada in October", "My Country Road", "One Day on the Farm", "I Am a Farm
Wife"
Sweeten, Colen H.
Jr.: "Real Cowboy", "Old Billy Heck", "Brother John", "Sourdough",
"Poetry Roundup", "Rough Ride", "Twilight", "Spurs", "My Resting Place", "From
the Horse's Mouth", "Hey, Brother", "Mortality is but a Moment", "This Old
Barn", "Which Side?", "The Soul of a Pioneer", "Dad's Old Hat", "That's Why",
"Calling Names", "Cowboy Gone Crazy", "Dream Ranch", "Ride 'Em Cowboy",
"Tough?", "Cowboy Without Boots", "In a Manger", "Elko", "Alone", "Blizzard",
"Diggin' Up Memories", "Echoes", "Old Ephraim", "Maybe You Ain't Done it All",
"Mother Love and Mamma Cows", "Mr. Banker", "No Lady's Man", "Life O'Riley",
"Poetry Gathering 1986", "Reality", "Right!", "Unseen Helper", "Vocational
Education", "First Saddle", "Cow on the Fight"
Tingey, Dave: 6
Untitled Poems, "The Good Old Days", 6 Untitled Poems
Tully, Buck: "The
Owyhee Buckaroo and the Idaho Toast", "Two Good Men"
Wallentine, Davis:
"The Joy of the Range"
Submission by another poet, thought to be Bruce
Kiskaddon [See Box 8, Folder 3: Bruce
Kiskaddon Collection ]
Webb, Mark A.:
[Articles] Pinton Bennet, And the Music Goes On, The Gathering,
"Hangin' Out", "Motel
Cowboy" Hits Music City, Independent Record
Labels, Coming Up With
Winners
Welter, D.L.: "The
Irrigation of Blackjack's Brain", "Hunter's Warning", "Empire Lost", "Luck",
"The Canyon", "Ben Genson", "Killer Trains", "Sheba and the Rainbird Kid",
"Hitchrack Juggernaut"
Submission by other poets:
S. Omar Barker - "Purt Near"
Author Unknown - "The Piddling
Pup"
Wright, Ann: "Longing
For Home"
Author Unknown: "A
Lonely Cowboy", "The End of a Dusty Trail", "Western Saloon", "A
Cowboy"
Jack E. Miller
Collection: [From Tough 'n Tender] "Just
a Workin' Cowboy", "Runnin' Mustangs", "Tough and Tender", "Springer Eyes",
"Reggie Quietrider", "Alrin n' Big Boy", "Along the Way", "Smellin' the
Posies", "Bring 'Em", "Tin Dog", "Handyman-Jack", "Wendy's Hot and Juicy",
"Handy to Have Around", "I am Basque", "Manuel Urega", "Be Calm If No Tobaccas
Ta Fall", "A Winna", "Misplaced Bill", "Pass Them Cajonies Please",
"Crosscurrents", "The Old Man and the Young Pup"
Alta S. Smith
Collection: [From Dusty Memories] "This
Book is Dedicated to My Mother, the Real Poet", "Dad and That Darned Car", "Mom
and the Kids", "A Piece of Straw", "Mickey: In Memoriam", "Saga of the Lost",
"Wind Symphony", "Dear Poet", "Dear Self", "F.D.A.", "Alice's Rain Song",
"Traci: In Memoriam", "Hey, Doctor", "A Glutton's Last Letter", "Ode to a
Winner", "A Dog's Tale", "Gentle Sonnet to a Sleeping Child", "Hey , Remember
Romance", "Smitty: the Godfather", "Ah! Mustang", "Ghosts of Yesteryear",
"Spring", "Summer Nights", "Chokecherry Wine", "Our Land", "Wealth Unending",
"Wishing Won't Make it So", "Albert", "Love Sonnet: For Chet and Sue", "Love
Theme", "Entreaty", "Hymn to Creation", "All About Joyce", "Mickey and Ken",
"Hey, Lillie", "For Tami", "Roots of Our Valley", "B.F.D.", "Scoutmaster's
Blues", "A Slower Pace", "Mom's Garden", "Lonely Reverie", "The Mormon Story",
"Recipe for a Happy Memory", "Bishopric's Farewell", "Hobo", "Idaho Springtime
Prayer", "My Wilderness: Idaho", "My Wilderness: In Memoriam", "What is
Oakley?", "Hey, Remember", "Dallas, Age Seventy-Five", "Keith and Theresa -
Newlyweds", "My Grandmother's Hairy Story", "Sawtooth Mountain Music", "Golden
Wedding Vows", "Ode to Spring", "The Fiery Blue Rooster's Tale", "Requiem for a
Friend", "The Predators", "Ah, Cottonwood!", "Supplication"
MacBeth, Tom: "Bull
Dreamin'", "Cowman's Christmas List", "Homeplace Auction", "How to Sell More
Beef", "Prairie Song", "Quality Time"
Mills, Phyliss Macy:
"The Last of the Handshake Cowboys", Untitled, Untitled, "Who'll Feed You and
Me"
Thompson, Charlotte:
"Corral No. 5", "Advice to Slade and Tom", "The Mustanger", "There's a
Difference", "Cowboy Controversy", "Tip in Hunter's Safety", "Palm of His
Hand", "Buckaroo", "Greyhound to Elko", "Charlotte's Cow", "Marital Choice",
"Like Daddy"
Ahrens, Randall W.:
"Facts", "Born Too Late", "Memories of a Packer", "A State of Mind"
Casey, T.J.:
Submission by other poet:
Timothy J. Cantin - "A Dollar a Day",
"The Story of Idaho Joe", "Ol' Jake", "Cowboy's Freedom Song"
Eastmans, The:
"Time"
Geissler, Val: "Call
It What You Like", "An Outlaw To Ride"
Grue, Betty Lynne:
"I've Rode", "Frost on the Fork Handle", "Rain on the Tent Fly"
Grue, B.L. & Steve
Rone: "Dear John"
McRae, Wally: "The
Lease Hound", "Eminent Domain"
Montana Folklife
Project: [From When the Work's All Done This
Fall]
Erasel Bloxham - "When the Work's All Done
This Fall", "Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail"
Joe Hughes - "Roundup Memories on the Big
Horn", "The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert Service"
Louis Schlautman - "Git Along Little
Dogies", "Little Joe, The Wrangler"
Wally McRae - "A Quiet Night on the
Prairie", "Reincarnation"
Ken Trowbridge - "Zebra Dunn"
Lew Ohl - "The Old Chisholm Trail"
Ray Grenfell - "Home on the Range", "The
Cowboy's Dream"
Val Giessler - "The Strawberry
Roan"
J.K. "Ken" Ralston - "Dayherding in the
Rain"
Murphy, Chuck:
"Orange Bailer Twine", "The Devil's Lament", "When God Made Montana", "My
Friend Too", "Bringing in the Drill", "The Fire of '84", "The Came to Work",
"Prince (Lacy's Bull)", "Cowboy Prank"
Peterson, Gwen and Jeane
Rhodes: "Cow Around the Outhouse (Refined and Elegant Montana
Limericks)"
Ramburg, Tom:
"B.S.er's"
Ross, Bob: "Lure of
the Sagebrush", "Lament of a Cowman", "Longhorn Cattle", "When Horses Wear
Diamonds", "Old Grass in the Spring", "Keep Smiling"
Ross, James: "Blue
Grama in the Sky", "To the Range Boss Up Above", "Our Auction Sale - April
1957", "My Mule Skinner Hat", "A Partnership with Freddie", "Our Last Horse
Roundup", "Wedlock at the Chute", "Ginger", "A Cowboy in Semi-Retirement", "It
is Tougher than a Pitch Pine Knot", "Off To the Cowboy Poets
Gathering"
Rowland, Carl
"Skinny": "Old Smeller", "The North Dakota Fire", "Winning a Wife",
"It All Adds Up", "The Hermit", "Fuel Shortage", "A Bear Story", "The Chase",
"Old Lonesome Joe", "Old Pete the Poacher", "Watchdog", "A Quick Way to Learn",
"The Perfect Breed", "Convincing Collateral", "No Doubt at All", "My Old Model
T and Me", "The Washtub By the Stove", "So Far and Yet So Near", "Old
Lightning", "The Secret Life", "The Man of the House", "Have a Nice
Day"
Sheehan, Chuck: "A
Trip Across the West", "Cowboy Joe", "Feed Lot Steer"
Smith, Marie Weedon:
Biographical Sketch, "Miracle on the Mountain", "Strangers on the Plain", "A
Long Way Home", "The Roundup"
Smith, Mike: "Oop's",
"Grandpa", "Who Will Come. Who Will Watch?", "Snuff's Card Room"
Sullivan, Bill: "To
the Western Horse", "The Prairies"
Walker, Chad: "His
Last Days"
Wilson, Howard: "The
Day My Saddle Retired", "The Barn Dance", "The Cowboy Boot", "The Cowboy's
Saddle", "Fort Keogh"
Wallace D. Coburn
Collection: "A Father's Advice to His Son", "A Tale of Love", "At the
Animal Convention", "Bill and Parson Sim", "Brookside Ranch", "Cow-Boy Fun",
"The Cow-Boy's Fate", "The Cow-Boy's Grave", "The Cow-Boy's Reply", "The
Cow-Boy's Regret", "Evening in the Badlands", "Grub Pile", "The Half Breed's
Tale", "Hidden Treasure Mine", "Human Discontent", "The Indians' Tale of
Christ", "Jack and Bill", "The Little Cross", "The Montanas at Caloocan",
"Nature's Grand Opera", "The Obsequies of Jack", "Ode to the Old-Timers", "Old
Cow Boy's Tale", "Old Jack's Introduction to Wild Horse", "The Stampede",
"Springtime", "Sunrise in the Badlands", "To an Indian Skull", "Wild West",
"The Wolf Hunt"
Wallace McRae
Collection: [From ...Up North is Down the
Crick] "Up North is Down the Crick", "The Grass-Fat Steers", "I
Knowed Old Charlie Well", "A Quiet Night on the Prairie", "Too Smart or Too
Stupid", "The Lingo of Our Callin'", "Fourth of July", "The Joyride", "The
Coyote", "The Eternal Triangle", "The Old Timer in the Bison", "The Mail", "The
Branding 'Lunch'", "The Generation Gap As It Applies to Rassling Calves At
Branding Time", "In Quest of the Festive Bough", "Old Pardner", "Coffee",
"Eminent Domain", "Harvest of Winter", "My Requiem", "Urban Cowboy", "Boyd
Charter 1907-1978", "Thus and So", "Touchy Questions", "An Ounce of
Prevention", "Burns' Night in Bonny Miles Toon", "Ranch Wife", "The
Rattlesnake", "Broke, Afoot and Old", "The Old Homestead House", "On
Catastrophe", "A Cost-Return Analysis"
D.J. O'Malley
Collection: [From Cowboy Poet] "A
Cowboy's Death", "Sweet By-And-By Revised", "D-2 Horse Wrangler", "Found On a
Sheep Herder's Mess Box", "The Cowboy Wishes", "Cowboy's Soliloquy", "Cowboy
Reverie", "A Busted Cowboy's Christmas", "The Cowboy's Kick"
Carl Art Rowland
Collection: "Big City Hunter", "The Coffee Pot", "The Deer Hunt",
"Good Boy?", "Just Too Tired", "The Mine", "Cross Country Jack", "The Ideal
Woman", "Old Mangey", "The Rabbit Hunt", "From Bad to Worse", "The Dude and the
Bear", "Mountain Funeral"
Andrus, R. Blain: "A
Gathering Storm", "The Birth of a Portuguese Bullfighting Horse", "A Cowboy
From New York"
Badt, Milton B.: "The
Love Sonnets of a Cowpuncher"
Baker, Hal:
Submission by another poet:
Unknown Author - Untitled
Bergin, Martin L.:
"Cowboy Gather'en", "Old Timer", "Cowboy Calling", "Old Roany's Sister", "Brush
Hand", "Glenn", "The Cowpony"
Bowman, Don: "Let's
Save the Cowboys", "Cowboy's Resolution"
Bradley, Lucile:
"Beatty, Nevada", "Swappin' Yarns at Roundup", "Utah Carl", "I Get the Blues
When it Rains"
Brown, Robert G.: "My
Dogs", "At Sunset", "Wilcox Ranch in Summer", "Mexican Irrigator", "The Boss's
Lament", "The Saga of Poco Joe"
Cheney, Walter
"Bimbo": "Thanks", "He's Nothin' But a Cowboy", "Broncs", Untitled,
"Changes"
Coy, Marcella
"Monty": "The Tenderfoot", "California Trail", "The Last Round-Up",
"The Cowboy's Life"
Craig, Joseph Allen:
"A Young Buckayro", "Paradise Ridge"
Davis, Homer Jr.:
"Sudden Death", "The Prairie"
Dickey, Donald: "The
Elko County Jail", "The Empty Rope", "A Little Ode to the Modern Cowboy", "The
Horse with the Sad Brown Eyes", "The Sheep Herder", "The Dandelion", "The Night
Before Christmas"
Dixon, Rinnie:
"Mustang Run"
Doney, Scott:
Biographical Sketch, "Born a Cowboy", "The Life of a Cowboy", "God's Campfire",
"Riding For the Brand", "Eternity"
Eklund, L.W.: "The
Kids Horse", "The Old Grey Mare", "The Bare Facts", "Foaling Time", "The Horse
Show Chauvinist", "The Horse Club Director", "The Wife's Horse", "The Roper's
Roper", "Main-ly Training", "There's a Whole in Your Genes", "So You Want to be
a Cowboy", "A Friend Named Jim", "The Super Salesman"
Ellis, G. Grace: "My
West", "The Stars Hang Low Tonight"
Etchinek, Julia:
Autobiography, "I Am Western", "Bullrider", "Looking For a Cowboy",
"Throwback", "Little Cowboy"
Fablinger, Eldon E.:
(3) Untitled Songs
Fletcher, Curley W.:
"Wild Buckaroo", "Strawberry Roan", "The Flyin' Outlaw", "Yavapai Pete", "The
Cowboy's Prayer"
Fouts, Billy: "The
Poet Gather"
Frank, Ralph:
"Ida-Dun"
Gardner, Charley: "My
Sister", "Long Valley Slough", "Recollection", "A Real Cowboy and a Would Be",
"The Buckaroo Girl
Garate, Patricia P.:
"The Cowboy's Companion", "Mem'ries of an Old Friend", "Nightfall", "Out in
Nevada"
Garrett, Fred: "Rough
Country Ropin'", "Cowboys, Cooks, and Calamity", "Hard Drive to the River",
"Some Broncs I Have Named"
Guild, Joseph: "At
the Funeral of a Mason Valley Rancher", "The 'Perfect' Outfit", "Friends Meet",
"Timberline Dreams"
[ARTICLES] "How'd Jackpot Come By It's Name", "And, More on the
Subject", "The Stork Visits Jackpot", "Quality of Entertainment", "This
Even Gets Real Attention", "Street Signs Tell More in Jackpot",
"Jackpot's First Funeral", "The Right Route...On the Way to Everywhere",
Untitled, "Jackpot is the Cross Country", "Air Racing Capital of
America", "Ever Changing Horseshu", "Jackpot's 'Green' Legend", "Case of
the Teacher Mouse", "Big Winner!", "Hayden 'Quippers'", "The Path of
Pigeons", "USA's Smallest Time Zone", "About the Trees in Cactus Pete's
Restaurant"
[READINGS] "Romance of Plateau Country", "Ghosts of Wheelbarrow Jones"
(Chapters I, II, III), "Ultimate Landscape", "Growing is No Pain",
"Peaceful Mystery Puzzle", "Tough Settlers - Cowboys", "More Modern -
Still Tough", "Jackpot Territory - Refreshing Adventure" (Chapters I,
II)
Hunter, John J.:
"N-E-V-A-D-A", "I what a Man", "My Pal", "The Wench"
Hustace, Donna K.:
"Recollections", "I Want to Be a Cowboy", "Old Timer", "Way of
Life"
Johannes, Guy: "An
Ode to the Western Women"
Joseph, Sallie
Knowles: "Sally, Cindy, and Becky Sue", "What's in a
Name?"
Joss, April: "Old
Friend", "The Lovesick Cowboys Blues", "Changing Rules"
Keller, H.R.: "Cold
Track Dan"
Kingsley, Alan: "The
Winter Ride in '87", "The Ballad of Bull Sheet Queensley"
Krammer, Gloria J.:
Untitled, "Epitaph to a Cowboy"
MacFarlane, J.: "A
Dream of Mine", "Lazy Chase", "A Little East of Westwind", "Birth, Wild Birth",
"Come With Me", "Singing Thoughts", "Branded and Broosed"
Margraf, Grid Lee:
"Just a Christmas"
Mathes, Claude R.:
Autobiography, "Fool's Gold", "Me and Him"
Martin, Sunny: "Never
Learn to Milk a Cow", "My Home State", "Diary of a Ranch Wife, or Pa and His
Danged Ol' Cows"
Mills, Newel: "Step
up and See the Beauty", "Creation", "Did You?", "The Greatest", "Clouds",
"Might Have Been", "A Farmer", "The Golden Years", "A Favor", "The
Climb"
Moore, Christenca:
Autobiography, "Nevada", "Spring in Nevada", "The Painted Pony", "The Ornery
Cow", "The Cowboy"
Odam, Norman Carl:
"Cactus", "Crack of Dawn"
Penola, Angela:
"Rodeo", "The Cowboy"
Profit, Ilene: "Cow
Camp Games"
Prunty, Frank: "A
Plumb Lost Cowboy"
Riordan, Pauline:
"Needs of a Cowboy"
Robinette, D.L.: "The
Devil Ain't Livin' in Texas", "Life Really Don't Exist", "The Dispelling of an
American Myth", "My First Experience With Sex", "Personal Hygiene on a Cattle
Drive", "Abilene Kansas 1884", "I Question My American Heritage", "My Life With
My Mama"
Satterhwaite, Connie:
"Bronco", "Out on the Wagon", "Being a Cowboy", "Turning Out!", "Cowboy's
Christmas", "Growing Up"
Sicking, Georgie C.:
Untitled, "That Long Eared Bull", "That Little Ole Coyote", "Cowboy Bedroll",
"To Be a Top Hand"
Smith, Richard: "When
the Saddle Was New", "To Tom Marvel", "Lucky", "Frank Stroud", "Moby Dick",
"The Monument", "Burro", "Spooks"
Stephenson, Wes: "My
Mount", "An Old Wrinkled Cowboy"
Terry, Glen H.:
"Basque Buckaroo", "Preacher's Son", "Ol' Timer", "Would You Buy This Horse?",
"Curly", "Earning Your Spurs", "A Situation", "Good Neighbors", "The
Schoolhouse", "Modern Technology", "The Little Buckaroo", "For the Class of
'86"
Thompson, Debbie:
"Cowboy", "Weaving Time"
Trumbo, Hershel:
Untitled, "The Horseman and the Fly", "Can They Bloom Then"
Turner, Dallas:
"Rocky Mountain Oysters"
White, Ed: "The Ghost
of Cactus Flat"
Author Unknown:
"Pickle Prick", "Turkey in the Straw", "Peter Pullin' Blues", "Ruins", "The
Treasure of Life"
L.G. High Collection:
"The Last of the Five Thousand", "The Chinese Mixed Chorus", "Tongue Twister",
"The Wild and Woolly West", "The Old Ghost Town Privy", "With a Catch Rope in
My Hand", "When This War is Over", "The Last of the Five Thousand", "The
Cowboy", "Old Mother Nature and Old Father Time", "The 'Hoot Owl Trail'", "Down
in Ma's Old Chicken Coop", "My Old 'Tom Cat'", "The World Went 'Round And
'Round", "Help Wanted", "Your Love is Like a Rainbow", "Now They've Got Me
Cutting Out Pin-Ups From the Magazines", "Tongue Twister", "In the Mining
News", "My Great Uncle", "I'm a Buckaroo, From the Flying 'U'", "Ragtime Cowboy
Joe", "Money"
Georgie C. Sicking
Collection: [From Just Thinkin']
"Blaze", "Once a Top Horse", "In a Mountain Shack Alone", "Cow Camp Thinkin'",
"To a Pal", "To Be a Top Hand", "Snow Storm", "Doctoring Worms", "Just a Little
Feller", "Old Tuff", "No Life for a Lady", "Jim Bennett", "Lightnin'", "The Old
Home Ain't the Same Place", "The Kid", "R C Q", "Home", "I Guess It Is
Religion", "A Few Cowboy Rules", "Old Bay", "Remember", "The Barrel Racer",
"Schurz", "Jake", "The Lonesome Ones", "Loco and Liquor", "Gamblin'", "Going
Back", "A Time For Remembering", "Nevada", "On That Other Range", "Mahone
Camp", "October 1945", "Nevada's Subtle Beauty"
Avery, Keith W.:
"Reality", "A Couple of Good Old Boys", "In My Youth", "A Bronc Stompin' Fool",
"Bronc Stomper's Lament", "Pleasure Bent Buddies", "A Rare Commodity", "Just
Plumb Human", "The Inevitable", "The Cowboy's Creed", "That's How It Is", "A
Salute", "Wisdom", "Truth", "Good Company", "Friends", "Yonder", "An Artist's
Prayer", "Checking the Back Trail"
Submission by another poet:
Charles M. Russell - "Where Tracks Spell
War or Meat", Untitled
Barker, S. Omar:
"Christmas Thanks"
Fusco, Mike: [Poems
untitled, listed by the first line of each poem.] "Thru a Cowboy's Eyes",
"Memories", "A Cowboy They Say I Be", "I'm Layin' Here Thinkin' of the Places
I've Been", "Ah--the Freedom of This Open Land", "Seems I Was Born to Roam the
Wild Country", "Guess I Was Born to Travel This World Alone", "As the Summer
Breeze Whispers", "She Was Named After a Saint", "As a Boy I Was never Content
to Sit", "Still Riding This Low", "Just Too Much Alcohol", "Oh Look At That
Train", "She Smiled So Fine", "Sitting At My Hotel Window", "Desert Flower",
"Here I Sit By a Clear Running Stream", "Searching For a Place to Stay", "Like
Passing Driftwood", "Nothing But Time And a Empty Glass in Front of Me", "I've
Been Too Many Places"
Guldeman, Gene: "A
Poem to a Son"
Kelly, Kay: "AJB",
"The Canyon Mares", "Ol' Snort", "A What??!"
McCanless, Allen:
"The Cowboy Soliloquy"
McNamara, Kevin: "Sun
Sets", "These Geese May Just Turn Again", "Barrel Racer and Me", "No Desperate
Fingers", "The Next Twelve Months"
Moore, Cecil: "The
Cowboy Poet Convention"
Morgan, Willie: (15)
Untitled Poems
Patterson, Paul E.:
"The USTA Bees Don't Fly No More", "A Synopsis of Joshua"
Sparks, Peggy:
"Outlaw Horse", "The Old Women", "The Tumbleweed"
Taylor, Gene: "When
Satan Entered the Pen"
Wallis, Juanita J.:
"Cowpuncher's Rights", "Cowpuncher's Lament", "Taxpayers' Concerns",
"Cowpunching Resembles a Bronc Ride", "God's Tapestry", "The Right Persuader",
"Ranch Romances"
Zarzyski, Paul:
"Martini McRae & Whiskey Zarzyski: A Brace of Blackjack Aces", "Royalty
Holds Her Favorite Cowboy Close -- A Portrait", "Escorting Grammy to the
Potluck Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed at Bowman's Corner", "How the Lord Throwed -
In With Mom to Make Me Quit the Broncs" "Cutting the Easter Colt", "Rodeo -
Road Founder: Highway Horseplay"
Katheryn Kelly
Collection: [Poems by Jack Sanderson]
"Old Red Buck", "The Top and the Bottom", "The Old Time Cowboys", "Space", "The
Preview", "Mornin'", "The Leather Book", "Last of a Legend", "Cowboy Child
Psychology", "Cowboy Honeymoon", "Don's Dun Downfall"
Cecil Moore
Collection: "The Angels", "Cowboy of Yesteryear and Cowboy of Today",
"Wife Wanted -- Until?", "The Life of a Cattle Man", "The Roundup of 1912",
"The Nevada Visitor", "Ode to Bob McCord", "Moon Over the Zunies", "Tony Jake
Navajo Boy", "The Griper", "The Rancher's Dog", "The Wayward Cowboy", "The
Cattle Trader"
C.O. Armstrong - "Grassy Butte, N.D.",
"Answer to the Cowboy's Last Request", News Article
Joseph Stroud - "The Jolly Cowboy"
Larry Chittenden - "The Cowboy's
Christmas Ball"
Erickson, Fran: "The
Ballad to Dakota", "To Les", "Ode to the Coffee Shop Corral", "Buffalo Skull",
"Indian Grave", "Time", "Topsy", "The Bartender's Dilemma", "The Horse Shoer",
"Tatyze", "Ballad to Dakota"
Submission by another poet:
E.P. Boland - "Old Tarzan
Qualifies..."
Grafton, Bennie M.:
Submission by another poet:
Unknown Author - Untitled
Lohmann, Glenn R.:
"The Shooting of Riley Luffsey", "Bible Bob", "Hell Creek Debate", "Old Floyd",
"Little Joe", "My Cousin's Last Ride"
Lowman, Bill:
"Trouble -- Down on the Farm", "The Final Lick", "A Ford or a Chevy",
"Sometimes, Well -- Then Again I Don't Know", "Ya Ever", "Trust Dogs En
Horses", "Border Town Bargain", "Farmer or Rancher", "Diversification", "Glad
I'm A Cowboy", "There's an Eagle Nest on the Bluff", "Heart and Home", "Why
Some Boys Cuss"
Murrey, Frank: "The
Bronco", "Cowboys in the Spring", "The Coyote"
Nelson, Rodney:
Untitled
Oyhus, Floyd C.: "The
Feeder Buyer", "The Cowboy's Joy Ride"
Putney, Hilda T.
LaSoto: "Our First Days Together, 1915", "Alex and Weasel", "The Old
Yule Ranch", "Funny Old Hills", "Between 1900 and '39", "Down in the Dumps",
"My Home State", "Lonesome", "Shake Hands", "In the Old Cow Camp", "Two Cowboy
Pals", "The 1920 Rodeo", "Don the Dude Wrangler", "The Little Mound Church",
"Wide Open Spaces", "When Daddy Rolled the Old Partition", "Essay on Man",
"High 5 at the Old 3-777"
Reich, Roland: "Life
on the Range"
Wilson, Sam: "Beware
of the Wilderness", "The Blizzard - February 5-10-78"
Lawrence Hopkins
Collection: Songbook Cover and Contents Page - The Ranch Boys, Songbook Cover and Contents Page - Jimmie Rodgers, Songbook Cover and Contents Page -
Arkansas Woodchopper "Little Mohee", Songbook
Cover and Contents Page - Gene Autry, Songbook
Cover and Contents Page - Roy Rogers,
Songbook Cover and Contents From - Songs of the
Ranch and Range: "The Railroad Corral", "The Big Corral",
"Bucking Broncho", "Brown-Eyed Lee", "The Buffalo Skinners", "The
Cowboy's Lament", "By the Silver Rio Grande", "Charlie Rutlage", "The
Cowboy At Church", "Cowboy Jack", "The Cowboy's Meditation", "The
Cowboy", "Cowboy's Dance Song", "The Cowboy's Dream", "The Curtains of
Night", "Curly Joe", "The Dreary Black Hills", "The Dying Cowboy", "The
Dreary, Dreary Life", "The Days of Forty-Nine", "Ten Thousand Cattle",
"Jesse James", "Goodbye, Old Paint", "The Dying Ranger", "The Great
Round-Up", "Sam Bass", "Fuller and Warren", "The Gal I Left Behind Me",
"Great Grand-Dad", "Colorado Home", "I Ride An Old Paint", "I'd Like to
be in Texas", "I've Got No Use for the Women", "Little Joe, The
Wrangler", "Jack O'Diamonds", "The Old Chisholm Trail", "Utah Carroll",
"Night Herding Song", "Only a Cowboy", "A Prisoner For Life", "Roy Bean",
"The Dying Cowboy", "Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim", "Sweet Betsy
From Pike", "The Tenderfoot", "The Texas Rangers", "Billy Venero", "The
Trail to Mexico", "The Colorado Trail", "The Texas Cowboy", "The Last
Longhorn", "When the Work's All Done This Fall", "Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo! Git
Along, Little Dogies!", "The Zebra Dun", "The Cowboy", "The Cowboys'
Christmas Ball", "The Lane County Bachelor", "Down in Arkansaw", "She'll
Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain", "Cielito Lindo", "Down in the Valley", "I
Wish I'd Stayed in the Wagon Yard", "The Bum Song", "Red River Valley",
"Big Rock Candy Mountain", "Bad Companions", "My Pinto Pal", "Cheyenne",
"San Antonio", "Pony Boy", "Pride of the Prairie", "Ragtime Cowboy Joe",
"Off to the Rodeo", "Ridin' 'Round the Range", "A Department Store
Cowboy" (Partial)
Songbook Cover and Contents From - The Songs You
Hear No More: "Pistol Packin' Papa", "The Soldier of the
Legion", "Punching the Dough", "Fair Charlotte", "The Cowboy at Church",
"Take Me Back to Col-ler-rad-da", "My Dear Old Southern Home",
"Strawberry Roan", "The Range of the Buffalo", "Billy Venero", "Goin'
Back To Texas", "The Texas Ranger", "The Silvery Rio Grande", "The Blind
Girl", "The Cowboy's Dream", "Bum Song, No. 1", "Bum Song, No. 2",
"Birmingham Jail", "High Powered Mama", "You and My Old Guitar", "The
Fate of Floyd Collins", "The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim", "I Wish I
Was Single Again", "The Cowboy's Meditation", "Big Rock Candy Mountain,
No. 1", "Big Rock Candy Mountain, No. 2", "The Trail to Mexico", "Blue
Yodel, No. 8", "The Wreck of No. 9", "The Texas Cowboy", "The Bright
Sherman Valley", "I'd Like to Be in Texas For the Round Up in the
Spring", "Little Brown Jug", "The Return of the Gay Caballero",
"Mississippi River Blues", "Happy Go Lucky Boy"
Songbook Cover and Contents From - The Songs of
Long Ago: "Long Ago", "We Met But Once", "Somewhere in Old
South Dakota", "Do They Miss Me?", "I'll Remember You, Love, In My
Dreams", "The Peal of the Village Bell", "'Tis Years Since I Parted, Dear
Mother, With Thee", "Come Back to Our Cottage So Lonely", "Are You
Lonely?", "I Whistle and Wait for Katie", "In the Cottage By the Sea",
"Only a Few Faded Roses", "The Great Roundup", "Clementine", "Barbary
Allen", "This Life is a Difficult Riddle", "Here's to the Maiden of
Bashful Fifteen", "When the Roses Are Blooming Again", "Old Chisholm
Trail", "Days of '49", "The Zebra Dun", "Utah Carroll", "Read Me a Letter
From Home", "My Mother's Picture", "Dreary Black Hills", "Flying
Trapeze", "Bury Me Beneath the Roses", "Patonia", "Home on the Range",
"The Blind Girl", "Little Mohee", "Little Joe, The wrangler",
"Night-Herding Song", "Old Sod Shanty", "Home With a Smile", "Safe in the
Sheperd's Bosom", "The Stars of Evening", "Punching the Dough", "Cowboy
Bill", "Cowboy's Dream", "A Maiden Sang to the Rising Moon", "The Old
Fashioned Well", "Call Me Darling", "Gentle Annie", "There's a Rainbow",
"Haunts of Childhood", "Cowboy Jack", "Red River Valley", "Colorado",
"Strawberry Roan"
Gus Meschke
Collection: [From The Best of Buffalo
Stew] "Medora", "Free Range Baloney", "A Poker Game", "The Raging
Blizzard", "Long Winter", "Blistering Heat", "Wonderful Spring", "A Mental
Portrait", "???", "Indifferent", "An Apple A Day", "Terra Firma", "Campfire
Kitchen", "Children of the Plains", "The Little Cowboy", "An Arctic Moon",
"Winter Wonderland", "Variable Spring", "A Mental Portrait", "From Dawn Till
Dark", "Time", "Interruption", "Consolation", "The Big Country", "The Old
West", "The Young Buckaroo", "The Giant Saguraro Cactus", "The Old, Old Ranch",
"A Mental Portrait", "Adios Old Pal"
Bates, Thelma:
Submission by other poet: Unknown Author - "The
Wheel"
Black, Bill:
"Moonshine Steer"
Bowerman, Jon:
Untitled, "Thank God For A Barn Sour, Grain Lovin', Old Brown Horse", "For
Jeff", "Tribute to Freckles and Tornado", "The Wreck on State Hwy
19"
Brown, Willie:
Autobiography, "Grandmother Earth's True Environmentalist...the Cowman", "A
'Specialist'", "Gettin' Out or Stay'n Fight", "Take Something Out", "He Won't
Quit...Nor Look As He'll Go Broke", "I Took My Teeth to the Dentist Today",
"Packin' the Jake", "The Doom of '47", "Baxter", "Cowboyin' or Simply A Livin'
My Dream", "Spectin' Ta See An Early Mornin' Show", "Philosophy of Time", "I've
Always Earned a Livin' a Horseback...Except", "Makin' the Water Flow", "My
Happy Pardner", "History in Spirit", "Chickens", "Aha...the Desert"
Burkhart, Lona: "Old
Broken Down Cowboy", "Ed's So Long"
Butler, Larry D.:
"Ranch Economics", "The West"
Chamberlain, Ken
Clair: "On One's Place in the Sunshine", "Rainbow for Mortal Years",
"Bardic Bellah's Borning", "Notable Savage -- Limerhew", "In Error of Terror",
"Egg-Sheeley"
Collins, Wendell:
"Fouled Up", "My Dog Jake", "Class Reunion", "To Joe", "To An Idaho Pioneer",
"A Thought To Youth", "Dad"
Conner, Isabel: "A
Cowboy's Memories", "Back on the Farm", "Frankie and Johnnie"
Crawford, Larry:
Autobiography, "The John Day", "Nosey", "The Plan"
Edwards, Lenore &
Merie: Submission by another poet: Unknown
Author - "The Strawberry Roan" (Some attribute this to Curley
Fletcher)
Hancock, Sonny: "A
Sailor's View of Texas", "The Sycan Barn", "A Bear Tale"
Hancey, Mike: "The
Wild Horse and Burro Hearing"
Hobby, Cassie: "Old
Ring", "My Sister 'Lois'"
Johnson, Cassie:
"Read 'Em and Weep", "Cowboy's Prayer", "Long Gone"
Kossler, Kathryn L.:
"Rawhide Pride", "Brothers"
Lochrie, Mack:
Biography, "The Modern Day Buckaroo", "Angels Do Fly"
McGilvary, Shirley:
"Highlights of Cowboy Poetry Gathering", "Tony and Maude", "The Big Hippy
Stud", "Wild Wagon Ride", "Cowgirl's Prayer", "Warpaint", "Beef Boycott",
"Christmas Card 'Contents' Past, Present, and Future (Who Knows?)", "Outdoor
Stop and Shop", "Big John and the Kellogg Carriage", "Carriageless
Marriage"
McGuire, M.G.: "The
Lady Ranger", "The Bear"
McMurty, Minnie: "Old
Philmath, Wild and Wooly, in the Latter Part of June"
Miller, Herbert:
"Dreams and Reality", "Farewell to Antelope"
Miller, Sara:
Biography, "Dragging a Dog", "Goodbye to a Cowboy", "Walking After Dreams",
"Feeling the Blue Lariat", "The Puncher and the Floosy"
Munn, R.O.: "Cowboy
Philosophy", "Young Fellers", "Cowboy Dan", "The Old West"
Stafford, Kim: "To
Elko and Back"
Thomas, Jim: "The
Cowgirl", "To Whom It May Concern", "They Say That Congress Has Passed the G.D.
Bill of Rights"
Thurmon, Ramona:
"Dennis and Roanie, Running Battle", "Proud American", "Range Cow", "Blue
Jeans", "Kid's Pony", "Feedlot Cow Boss", "Winners, Almost", "Hardtimes", "Lady
Boss", "Team Roping", "Horse Sense", "Whiskey", "The Lady and the Horsetrader",
"High Sierras"
Wagner, Paul:
"Umatilla County"
Wyatt, Ronald: "The
Powder Room", "Drugstore Cowboy", "The Champion", "The Rodeo Star"
Bruns Library
Collection:Ken Pruitt - "The God Forsaken Land"; Unknown Author (Possibly E. Wood) - "First Snow",
"Turning Them Out", "The Water-Hole", "The Cattle Camp - Night", "The Cattle
Camp - Dawn", "Billy Craddock in Rome", "The Blitzen Oasis After
Rain"
Kenny Grant
Collection: [Poems by various authors]
S. Omar Barker - "Roped Dynamite",
"Cowgirl's Recipe", "Cow Country Code", "What the Old Texan
Misses"
Griff Crawford - "A Picture",
"Overdrawn"
Unknown Authors - "Bud Ballew's Last
Draw", "A Song of the Range", "The Raid", "Home on the Range", "A Deer
Hunt", "The Cowboy At Work", "Indians", "The Buffalo Hunter", "The
Barefoot Boy With Boots On", "The Cowboy's Dream", "Laska", "Beware of a
Cowboy Who Wears a White Hat" "Pinto"
Lewis, Robert Edward:
"The Legion of Desperate Men", "Custer's Luck"
McSpadden, Clem: "The
Cowboy's Prayer", "If Our Flag Could Talk"
McSpadden, Herb: "To
A Champion", "Eighteen Tons of Cottonseed Cake", "Uncle Will", "At the Cowboy's
Ball", "Out Where Our Rest Begins?" (A Parody of Robert Vance's "Out Where the
West Begins"), Untitled (A Parody of Bruce Kiskaddon poem, fragment included),
"Eighteen Tons of Cottonseed Cake"
The Following Included from a Newspaper Article: "Boom Town Drifters", "Col.
Colt's Revolver", "Red Desert Rodeo", "Old Cowboy", "Cowboy Winter"
Ayres, Homer: "The
Song of the Lambing Camp", "Lizz Biz", "Plant More Wheat", "The Hair O' The
Dog", "Violence in the Living Room", "Dear Senator", "The Modern Sheepherder",
"Get in With Us, We're Giving You a Ride", "Remember the Pig Factories?", "That
Ranching Thing", "Rose Knows, The Case of the Devilish Rattler", "Speaking
Mountains"
Badure, Greg: "It
Snowed", "The Night Ol' Santa Almost Bit the Dust"
Black Hills St. College Yellow Jacket Stamped
Program:
Submissions by other poets:
Badger Clark - "A Cowboy's Prayer"
Unknown Authors - "A Cowboy's Prayer",
"The Cowboy"
Bradfield, Bryon:
"The Blizzard's Song", "Old Time Cowboy", "Ashes of Springtime", "Pioneer
Memories", "The Mouse Colored Bronc", "A Day on Fall Roundup",
"Jack"
Bringsyellow, Johnny:
"Since Time Began"
Casteel, Jo: "Women's
Lib", "He Needs it All", "The End of the Trail", "We Ain't Crazy", "Spooked",
"Show Me the Way", "Born Too Late", "Sure Am Lucky", "Sod Busters", "I'll Take
a Horse Anyday", "Losers Buy the Drinks", "God's Funny Creatures", "The Death
of a Ranch", "The Cowboys", "Calvin' Time", "Miriah, Ha!", "A Case of Spring
Fever", "You're Selling What?!", "Used to Be", "He Needs It All", "Do You
Believe in Santa", "Two Champs", "He's Not a Senior Citizen, He's a Cowboy",
"He Got Respect", "Thank You, Lord", "That Crawlin' Critter", "A Visit to the
Doc's", "You Understand, Don't You Lord?"
Conley, Georgene:
"Inflation His the Range", "Cowboy Joe's Decision", "Little Sod Shanty", "A
Toast to Calamity Jane", "A Small Disaster"
Dennis, Bob:
"Cowboys", "Cowboy's Hate", "The Best Time of Year", "The Chore", "Homeguard",
"Ma an Ole Yeller", "Workhorses and Tractors"
Field-Paulton, Susan:
"The Storm", "Remembering New Mexico"
Gifford, Jan Swan:
"Just Dreamin'", "Those Old Eyes"
Gray, Connie: "About
Self", "That Old Rooster", "The Impossible", "Words and Actions", "That First
Auto", "Ahhh, September", "Stewed Prunes", "Is Silence Golden", "The New
Bride", "The Silver Spurs", "The Invader"
Lantis, Bob:
Untitled, "The Capture", "I'll Play These", Untitled
Miller, Roy: "Rodeo
Routine", "One of 'Them' Days", "Mishap on a Dude Outfit", "A Wild Ride", "An
Exciting Experience", "No More", Fact Sheet, "No Snake Bit, OR Too Much 'Snake
Bite'!", "Why a Crow Bar?...'Cause...(Caws)!", "Payin' the Penalty"
Cusimano, Chuck: "We
Were Cowboys", "The New Hand", "Home on the Range", "Dirt on Your Hands", "Old
Rusty Spurs", "The Lord and the Good Cowboy"
Davis, Alvin G.:
"Cowboy Poetry", "Bull Shipper", "Beef Type", "Famous Firearms", "Horse
Breeding", "Changing Jobs", Qualifications of Alvin G. Davis
Gaba, Mike: "The
Fighting Spirit of John Prather"
Gardner, Viola: "My
Primavera Doll"
Lerado: (2) Untitled
Poems, "My Cowboy Hat"
McLaury, Buster:
"Sling Loop Slover", Untitled, "The Bridle Rein Lesson", "Nigger Charly Smith",
"Cowboy's Christmas Thanks", "Cowpuncher's Lament"
McLaury, Sheryl: "My
Old Hat", "The Cattle Guard", "The Cowboy's Wife", "A Cowboy's Wife's Two
Husbands"
Whipple, Melvin
Collection: "What Was Once Open Range", "The Big Rodeo", "Utah, Queen
of the West", "Lonesome Night", "The Old Time Bronco Rider", "Voices of the
Night", "The Little Bar Z", "The Big Horseshoe Bend", "My Memories of the
Past", "Just Cowboys", "The Big Hell Hole", "Escape From Reality", "Pullin'
Leather", "The Old and new Frontier", "Here's a Tribute to the Cowboys", "Those
Winding Trails", "The Lonesome Nights", "How They Lived", "Open
Range"
Author Unknown: "Hell
in Texas", "Texas a Paradise"
Aiken, Duke: "Along
Memory Trail", A Collection of Poetry [See Table of Contents]
Bayles, Finely H.:
"Old Paper Face", "My Mom", "Country Comfort", "The Day Me and Strawberry
Fell", "Sooner and the Serpent", "Outlaw Country"
Berglund, Claude A.:
"Ballad of Little Priest"
Christensen, Bob:
"The Bargain", "Red Cloud's Grandson", "The Museum", "Pardners", "A Long Dry
Winter", "The Pickup", "The Vet", "He Sent the Boy to College", "Reach Out and
Touch Somebody", "The Feed Order", "Cowboy in Paradise", "Salesman's Relief",
"The Chicken Thieves", "Tree of Utah", "The Rustler", "The Bachelor Gal", "The
Sleepy Bear", "Grandma's Secret Recipe", "Ranchers Revenge", "Too Much Heat",
"The Space Shot", "The Pink Bandana", "The Indian Outhouse", "Spiffy and the
Bear", "Gobble, Gobble, Hobble", "The Casino", "The Experts From the East",
"The Snowbirds", "Old and in the Desert"
Croft, Bucks: "The
Bush Brotherhood"
Dunbar, Don L.: "A
Tribute to Claude"
Dunbar, Marvin:
"Hoofs and Horns -- Cowboy Joe", "Horse Tradin'", "Mat McCue", "Sound Horse",
"The Spirit of Giving", "The Quarter Horse", "To Fellow Mounties and Friends",
"Trail of Zanavoo"
Faupell, Jess: No
item (tape missing)
Fox, Robert B.: "What
is a Cowboy?", "Little Feller", "The Big-Brimmed Hat", "Cactus", "Dust
& Water", "Unchanged", "Movin' On", "The Pony Express", "Not For
Dudes", "Log Cabin", "Ghost Town", "Tumbleweed", "Reminiscing", "Joshua Trees",
"Orin Porter Rockwell", "The Track of the Wagons", "Mail Without Fail", "I Can
Get It For You Wholesale", "Blue Ribbon Mutt", "The Tale of a Mountain Cat",
"Sagebrush", "Cowboy Miscast", "Peace Pipe", "He Tried", "Modern Version",
"Present Imperfect Tense", "To Bleached Bones", "Boot Hill", "Wild One",
"Stampede"
Gentry, Frank:
"Life's Deck of Cards", "To the Rednecks", "Spare the Mother Doe",
Untitled
Hunting, Yula Sue:
"Split", "Knights to Defend", "A Christmas Tree", "Ear Mark and Brand", "Letter
to Utah Arts Council, 9/26/84", "Hero Worship", "Letter to Internal Revenue
Service, 3/11/64 from Burl Hunting", "Salvation", Various Greeting Cards with
Illustrations, "Dear Sirs", "A Fall"
Iverson, Hans Peter:
"Hans Peter Iverson's Life History in Verse"
Jensen, Floyd A.:
"The Legend of the Dapple Gray", "The Day I Roped a Deer", "Pa's Old Model A",
"Swimming At the Creek", "Old Jack Swenson's Ride", "The Pack Rat", "Back
Home", "Kathy"
Kerr, C. Duane: "The
Cowboy Goes to College", "There Was Lots They Never Told Me", "The Scrawny,
Little, Brindle Bull"
Lashley, Ray: "Clay
Allison and the Kid", "A Ride With Chief Joseph"
Lemon, Frank D.:
"Left Handed"
McArthur, J. Wayne:
"Pardners", "The Cowboy's Challenge", "Son Don't Leave Me Behind", "A Cowboy's
Lament"
McKendrick, Scott:
"Movin' But Stayin'", "Rodeo People", "Don't Teach That Girl to Rope", "Poems
For Horsemen", "Record Book Time", "Maken a Horseshow Judge", "The Horseshoer
and the I.R.S.", "As I Look Back", "That Day", "Snubbin' Broncs", "The End", "A
Father's Dream"
Mecham, Lee: "Cowboy
Dreams"
Montgomery,
Livingston: "The Uinta Song"
Moon, Michelle:
"Behind the Chutes at the Rodeo"
Mortenson, Vern:
"They Ain't No Place Like Home", "Thought on Elko 1985", "The West That
Was"
Pearson, Glen L.: "A
Toast to Horseholics", "Ballad of Idaho", "A Leg is A Leg", "Love Out of a
Bottle"
Pintz, Jan: "Big
Red", "Listen to Dad", "This Lonesome Feeling", "A Fool's Christmas Tree",
"Unmerry Christmas", "To Get a Christmas Tree", "In My Old Sheep Camp", "Cold
Hearted Wife", "A Man Is Free", "Women, Worries and Bills", "Dear Abby", "The
Lost Sheep", "Poems 'N Pies", "Please Dear Lord", "Women, Worries and Bills
#2", "Dear Brigham", "I Thought This Card Was Pretty Good", "I Woke Up So
Early", "Now I Need Another Horse", "Old Cowboy", "Dear Carol", "Badger Holes",
"Tired of Towns"
Peterson, Kent:
"Summer Pasture", "The Toothache", "Paradise", "Single", "The Stud
Farm"
Pollock, Samuel H.:
[From Sparks From My Campfire] "Desert Moods", "A
Mountain of Stone" [From Eternal Spectrum and Spiritual
Maturity] "Temples of My Rugged Wilderness", "My Stairs of Sand",
"Exaltation", "Southern Utah"
Robison, Ellis: "I
Wouldn't Be a Puncher Man"
Roundy, Don: "The
Cowboy Goes To College", "Clippings"
Smith, Melvin T.:
Submission by another poet:
Glen E. Wilcock - "The Big Sky
Country"
Spainhower, J.S.:
"Asi Es La Vida (Such is the Life)", "Shorty's Song", "Conversation With
Caleb", "Sage of Slippery Rock"
Spague, Carl T.: "The
Mormon Cowboy"
Steadman, Linda D.:
"Eulogy for Sarge - October"
Stokes, L. Grant:
"The Home Place", "Reflection of My Youth"
Warburton, Jeff:
"Jake and the Gunman", "The Price", "The Start", "Style", "The Old Hat", "The
Last Request", "Cowboy Please Come Home", "The Visitor"
Wilkerson, Arbun:
"Fishing is the Greatest Fun"
Anonymous: "Dad's Old
Hat", "The Legend of Boastful Bill", "Smuggler", "Goose Egged"
Rhett Stephens James
Collection: "Frontier Doctor Sitting On a Bed By a Dead Man",
"Cowboy Wall Flowers", "Two Horsemen Ride Through Cottonwoods", "Ride!
Horseman, Ride!", "Round 'en Up Strays", "Intercessor", "Rain Bath", "Wild
Horse and Cowboy Man", "The Horseman Home -- First Season's Snow"
Ray Lashley
Collection: "Ridge Runnin' Roan", "Utah Carl", "Elfego Baca",
"Limpy", "Flight From Powder River", "The Strawberry Roan", "Billy Venero",
"Clay Allison and the Kid", "The Fate of the Strawberry Roan", "Mr.
Shorty"
Vern C. Mortensen
Collection: [From The Sagebrush
Balladeer] Untitled, "They Ain't No Place Like Home", "Winter Nights
on the Range", "In the Family Circle", "The Way it Is", "It Matters Not",
Untitled, "Talking in My Sleep", "Reflections", "Bull Rider", "I Shoulda Stood
in Bed", "On Surcharges and Caves", "I Shoulda, #2", "Winter", "Range Cow in
Winter", "Bareback Bronc", "The West That Was", "When Spring Work Is Finished",
"The Desert Shall Bloom As the Rose", "Wander Lust", "Naked I Came", "Fall",
"The Anchor", "A Prayer to Claire", "To Metta", "The Fisherman", "Dylan",
"Prayer", "Requiem", "Knell (for her parents)", "To Elva (1929)", "Winter
Nights on the Range", "Freedom!", "Clair", "The Desert Shall Bloom As the
Rose", "Weep Not For Me", "Ride the Rocky Ridges", "Outlaw", "Rain", "Badger,
The Zebra Dun Mule", "This Gal", "Booze and Views", "Dirty Shirt Jake",
"Good-bye Bill", "Do You Believe?", "The Hell You Say", "Valerie", "The Mark of
the Beast", "A Wish, Not a Prayer", "Air Castles", "Moon Dreams", "They Ain't
No Place Like Home",
Frank A. and Frances Brewer
Steiner Collection: [From Ballads of the Book
Cliffs] "To: A Slightly Wonderful Old Gentleman--My Father", "Her
Porch of Screen", "The Rimrocks", "Brewer's Rock", "Gusty Winds", "Old Horse",
"Don't Fee Your Chickens Meat", "The Phantom Horse", "The 'Reps' From Bitter
Creek", "Oh Lucky Boy", "These Things", Ode to a Johnnie", "Jerry McCarty", "As
the Poppies Blossom Red", "The Legion of the Lost", "The Little Bay Racer",
"Warden Brown", "Old Timer", "The Arizona Line", "Nineteen Twenty and Three",
"Roundup Time on the Mountain",
Poems by the Brewer Family: "Bertha Myrtle
Rosalae", "To Allan and Jack", "Doc Kirk", "Rocket", "You Can't Fool a
Fly", "Quick Trigger Graw", "Calhoons or Bust (Tall Tale)", "Cacho's
Ghosts...Strangers in Paradise", "Don Hill's New Camp Cook", "The
Swearing Saint", "Fishing on White River", "The Old and the Young",
"Buxton's Wild Horse Chase", "This Cold September Morn", "Fresh Meat is
Hard to Come By", "Ode to Duke", "The One That Got Away", "Roundup Time
on the Mountain", "The Devil's Circle", "Modern Cowboy", "A Most Colorful
Life", "The Legion of the Lost", "Old Horse"
Utah Cattlemen's Association
Collection Poems by Donald Getz: "Dad's Old Hat", "A Night Herder's
Prayer", "Was It But a Dream?", "One Hundred Ten Crosses", "Nevada is Home to
Me", "God's Painted Desert", "A Cowtown Celebration", "A Few Head of Cattle",
"No Chips Off the Old Block"
Donald E. Getz
Collection: "Tombstones", "Tried and True, Sonfabitch Stew", "Buster
and Rodeo Clown", "A Rodeo Rider's Lament (His Silent Prayer)", "A Lesson
Learned", "Quarterhorse", "Ode to a Wild Stallion", "A Cowboy Poetry
Gathering"
Ray Wiley - "The Ballad of the
Horsebreaker", "Suicide", "Brown Kills Rattlesnake - 1910", "The
Pretentious Bull" "White Colt, Tuffy and I", "The Grizzly", "The She Wolf
Finds a New Mate", "The Ballad of the Prospector"
Bristol, Marc: "One
More Song"
Brownwell, Gary:
"Cowhand", "The Lakota Kid and the Red Roan Stud", ""The Life and Times of Jim
Bob Day", "The Trapper and the Indian Maid"
Haller, Amelia:
"Visit From a Neighbor", "The Old Time Fiddler", "Water-Witching", "Almost
Fourteen"
Hofer, Jim: "Branding
Those Dang Scottish Highlanders, Hooked by a Horn Near Conrad,
Montana"
Johnson, Irene: "A
Cowboy's Farewell", "Cowboy's Lullaby"
Kulm, Jay: "My
Rattlesnake Poem", "The Vegetarian", "A Giant Four-Point Buck"
Otto, Harold:
"Milking a Herford Cow", "The Pecos Girl", "Cows and Logs"
Walmsley, Mark: "Tom
Horn", "High Country", "Down in the Canyon"
Wassell, Bert: "Woman
Power", "The Saint and the Sinner"
Cameron, Pete:
Untitled, "Walking the Ditch", "In Defense of Dudes", "Draft Horses", "Tribute
to the Hardman Place", "Ole to a Mountain Ranch"
Farris, Beerniece E.:
Untitled
Gupton, Mona:
"Billy", "A Tale of Two Women", "The Boots", "Dreamin'"
Hofeldt, John W.:
"Spanky the Devil's Playmate", "Where the Mountains Kiss the Sky",
"Representing the Cowboy State", "Me and My Wife"
Jacobsen, Anita
Nadine: "The Cowboy and His Sunflower Queen", "Howdy Pardner", "Old
Time Dance"
Jeppesen, Verna M.:
"A Child's Prayer", "The Line Shack", "Ancient Red-Skin Legend"
Johnson: Greasin' the
Miles", "Dudes"
Kaser, Mick: "Old
Ephraim", "Rendezvous", "The Hippie and the Black", "Bozo"
Kinchen, Trish:
"Floored", "A Change in Tune", "Hanging On", "To My Little Buddie
Jami"
Kortes, Charles A.:
"Teamwork", "The Wagon", "The Canner", "Old Patch", "Broken Treaty", "Gathering
at Elko", "Parting of the Ways", "A Way of Life", "Drifting"
Martin, Kenneth:
Submission by another poet:
Laurie M. Harvey - "Cheyenne", "A Special
Breed", "A Very Special Friend", "Generations", "Daddy's World"
Mathison, Jean A.:
"High Style", "Kitchen Range Riders", "Come Evening", "Patriarch", "Lonesome
Joe", "Wyoming Gate", "Half-Pint Cowboy"
McCoy, T.J.: [From
Day Dream of a Night Hawk] "The Dogie", "The
Nighthawk", "Apaloosie", "The Real Thing", "Passing the Cow Town", "Alkali Pete
Hits Town"
Pecorara, Irene: "The
Cowboy Poetry Gathering", "A Cowboy's Life", "The Cabin", "Slang-Time Cowboy
Joe's Sojourn to Town" (an article)
Submission by another poet:
Blondell Whitehead - "An Old West July
4th Celebration", "Lariat Sam"
Phillips, Jerry: "A
Simple Cowboy's Prayer"
Pioneer Museum in Lander, Wyoming:
Submissions by other poets:
Jule Farlow - "Cowboy Song"
Ed Wynn - "The Shepherd's
Monument"
Joe Cook - "Our Folks Were
Pioneers"
E.F. Hornecker - "Our Trip to
California"
Jean A. Mathison - "The Cowboy in Wooley
Chaps"
Edna Hornecker - "Long Journey"
Anonymous - "Take Me Back to Old
Wyoming"
Rawling, C.L.: [From
Cowboy Verses in the Traditional Style] "The
Line-Rider's Lament", "The Desert Cowboy", "The Ballad of Wolfley's Knob", "The
Buckskin Mare"
[From Figures in a Landscape] "Part of
Book -- A Ceremony on Bare Ground",
"Visions", "Shoshoni Sunset", "Roscoe Coming Home", "Grandpa Bill", "The
Frontier", Santa Fe: A Rain Chant", "A Mourner in Winter Dress", "Blue,
Blue Mountains", "September 17", "Mitch", "Warren"
Redington, Scott:
"Parson William's Mule", "The Heavenly Rodeo", "The Madonna of the Plains",
"Written Upon the Death of a Pardner", "Wyoming", "The Search For
Timbuktu"
Wall, Edna J.: "The
Rancher's Wife on Calving", "The Rancher's Wife on Helping"
Fred W. Barton
Collection: "The Old Cowboy's Lament", "West is West, But It's Not
the Same", "Wonderful Wyoming", "Contesting the Skis", "A Notice to a Lifter",
"The Blizzard of 1929", "The Big Ones Get Away", "No Nerve", "The T.V. Cowboy",
"A Reverse Scene", "School Days!!", "Big Game Hunting in Wyoming", "Youthful
Dreams", "The Number One Cowboy", "Wonderful Wyoming", "A Sheep Herder's
Reform", "The Old Cowboy's Lament", "Buffalo", "Night Before Christmas",
"Riding For the Old U.S.", "My Super Car"
Betsy Bernfeld
Collections: (Poems by Various Authors)
Constantine Peter Arnold - "Back Tracks",
"Irrigatin'"
Arthur Chapman - "Arroyo Al On Worry",
"Moving Pictures in Cactus Center", "A Cowboy's Musings", "The Sheriff's
Report", "Pete's Error", "The Meeting", "The Hoss of Pecos Doyle",
"Cactus Center's War Talk", "Cactus Center's Fire Brigade", "The Camel
Ride of Arroyo Al", "The Water-Hole"
Porter B. Coolidge - "Powder River",
"Song of the Trail"
John Wallace (Captain Jack) Crawford -
"Rattlin' Joe's Prayer", "The Mountain Boys Letter", "Dear Giner'l:",
"California Joe and the Girl Trapper", "He Died for Me", "A Mountain
Girl's Letter", "Only a Miner Killed", "Farewell, Old Cabin Home",
"Musing"
Addie Elvira Harris Holmberg - "The
Leapin' Lariat", "That Muse O' Mine", "America, Salute the Flag", "Tang
O' the Sage"
Hans Kleiber - "Old Pete", "One Late
October Evening", "The Sheepherder and a Grizzly Bear"
E. Richard Shipp - "Cowboys", "A Vision",
"City", "Poor Maverick"
Lillian L. Van Burgh - "The Bozeman
Trail"
Anna Thompson Winecoff - "Rain on the
Ranch", "Thirst", "The Sheepherder"
Thomas Connell
Collection: "A Cup of Coffee", "I Remember", "Evening", "Bridges to
Cross", "Treating Grain", "The Hanging of Jed Moody", "These Are My Hills", "A
Cup of Coffee", "Old Cabin", "Three Stanzas"
Don Bell - "Bunk House Poetry", "Bill
King", "Going to the Shawnee Rodeo", "Bill and Mary", "Turkey Buzzards",
"Gettin' Old", "Plumb Hell", "Turkey Buzzards" (2nd Copy), "Bear Cat",
"Your Horse is In", "Love"
Mark W. Countryman - [From Echoes of the Old West] "Our Greetings", "And
Bring Back That Little Girl of Mine", "Round Up Days", "A Little
Bungalow", "The Drouth Has Won", "The Call of the White Buffalo", "A
Soldier of the Sage", "To An Old Timer", "The Christening of Cowheart
Butte", "Cattle Kate", "The Wild Jammer", "To C.M.", "Castle Rock", "The
Old Purple Sage", "The Old Stage Coach", "The Texas Trail Herd", "The
Cowboy's Call", "When It's Autumn in the Rockies", "Where the Wind Rivers
Flow", "All is Well", "Christmas Trees", "Time's Manuscript", "Little
Indians", "The Window in the Trees", "Frontier Days at Old Cheyenne",
"Just a Cabin in the Valley", "Haunting Memories", "And Build Up the
U-Cross Brand", "April Weather", Just an Army Buckaroo", "By the Side of
the Oregon Trail", "Gypsy Trail", "My Old Model T", "To Her Little
Wistful Smile", "The Western Range", "With a Hammer of Pure Gold", "For
the Lovelight in Your Eyes", "Your Cowboy Lover", "When We Were Kids",
"Little Bess", "The Bar S", "The Bravest of the Brave", "Contentment",
"And She Works For Uncle Sam", "The Bunkhouse Blues", "Just a Little Girl
in Blue", "Birds of a Feather", "I'm Really Going Home"
George Frame - "Where Time Stands Still",
"Buffalo Bill -- The Man", "Restless Sin", "Land of Buffalo", "War Dance
Meadows", "Ballad of Bob Meyers", "Songs of Pahaska, Fairest One", "Song
to Ellen", "Horse Thief Song", "Song of the Rangers"
Joseph Stell - "An Ode to a Man"
Blondell Whitehead - [From Blondell's Ballads and Folklore] "The Weavers",
"Northern Justice", "That's Love", "Dreams", "Larry Reo", "The Night
Wind", "The Duel at the Crossing", "The Wayward Wind", "The Pedro
Mountains", "Uncle Tom", "The Dinky Folk", "Cabin in Wyoming", "The
Pathway", "The Stockman's Lament", "Working in the Garden of the Lord",
"Farewell to Sammy", "My Old House", "Old Sam From the OHO", "The Old
Man", "The Lone Wolf", "The Never Old", "The Plowman", "The Vikings",
"Rogue River", "Sandy McGraw", "Hang Your Hat on the Wind", "The Spring
of '62", "Nature's Jewels", "The Return", "Trapper Andrew", "Negro Tom",
"The Dreamer", "The Phantom Rider", "My Old Brown Pet", "My Captain",
"Slumber", "The Last Long Ride", [Various news articles dealing with
Blondell Whitehead included]
Delmar Dean
Collection: [From Ramblings of An Old
Cowboy] "An Old Cowboy's Dream", "The Cow Pony", "Ranchers'
Troubles", "I Feel So Darn Good for the Shape I'm In!", "The Old Forgetful
Brain", "To the Senior Citizens", "We Are 'Over' But not Out!", Wyoming
Stockgrowers -- 99 Years", "Uinta County Fair", "Dear Old Wyoming",
"Stockgrowers Association -- 100 Years", "A Tribute to the Guild Family", "To
My Valentine", "Thanksgiving", "Christmas in the Country", "When Mom Cleans
House", "Styles...Then and Now", "Mother -- On Mother's Day" "To My Wife on Our
Golden Wedding Day"
Burke Johnson
Collection: [Poems by Nick Johnson, from Wind
River Poems] "Me and Al", "The Goal", "Sun Down Slim", "Greasin' the
Miles", "The Paint Brush", "Brooks Lake", "Dudes", "Sweepin' Up the Leaves",
"Trekking the Forest Primeval", "Running Horses", "The Dempsey-Tunney Fight",
"On the Divide", "She", "Dubois, The City of Sin", "The Dance on Bear Creek",
"Empties", "Float"
Bob Taylor
Collection: "What the Day Didn't", "Cow Camp", "Two Days From Town",
"Thoughts in the Middle of Town", "Mrs. S.H. Brent/Age 79", "Prairie", "I've
Come to Hunt", "After the Storm", "Cody--Into a New Century", "Cabin", "1st
Winter", "A Skinny Moon in a Dark Night", "Rockies", "The Rams", "Home Down By
the Willows", "Old Fashioned", "No Gifts and Something Else", "One Wedding
Picture", "The Way He Is", "In A Few Years"
Bruce Kiskaddon:
[From Rhymes of the Ranges]: "When They've
Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall", "The Midwinter Bath", "The Willow Creek
Wedding", "The Parson Shotgun Chaps", "The Cowboy's Dream", "The Old Moss
Back", "The Adventurer", "Our Sweetheart", "When You're Throwed", "The Muley
Steer", "The Discovery", "The Old Night Hawk", "A Character", "An Experiment",
"The Disaster", "The Time to Decide", "The Lost Mines", "Our Boss", "The Dark
Horse", "The Long Eared Bull", "Bonnie", "Between the Lines", "Who Told the
Biggest", "The Stampede", "The New Mexico Stray", "The Cowboy's If"
[From Western Poems]: "Turnin' the Summer
Hosses Out to Graze", "Savin' the Baby Calf", "When Winter's Nigh Done",
"Springtime", "Matching Wits", "Flankin'", "High an' Wicked",
"Challengin' the Trail", "Movin' to Winter Range", "Cuttin' Out the
Calves", "After the Fall Roundup", "The Cowboys' Christmas Dance", "The
Purebred Bull", "That Little Blue Roan", "The Livestock Show", "All
Dressed Up", "New Boots", "The New Cook", "The Long Horn Speaks", "The
Chuck Wagon", "The Thoroughbred", "The County Fair", "Wet Boots", "That
Letter", "The Old Time Christmas", "Cow Sense", "Shoveling the Ice Out of
the Trough", "When the Grass is Short and the Old Cows Die", "Ridin'
Fence", "Pullin' Bog", "The Rope Hoss", "Colts", "The Brandin' Corral",
"Thinkin'", "Lockin' Horns", "The Cow and the Calf", "The Cow Boy's Shirt
Tail", "A Calf's Troubles", "The Marking Knife", "Caught Nappin'"
[Poems Submitted by Guy W. Logsdon
(Arizona)]: "Cold Mornings", "On Foot", "Looking Back", "Scatterin'
Camp", "The Old Timers" ,"Turnin' Em", "Then and Now", "Startin' Out",
"Going to Summer Camp", "Her Neighbor's Kids", "A Surprise", "A Tangle",
"The Coming Change", "Sidin' His Dad", "They Can Take It", "Summer Time",
"Winter Horses", "Gettin' it Settled", "A Wet Rope", "Range Brandin'",
"The Army Mule", "The Troop Hoss"
[Poem Submitted by TC Costa (Arizona)]:
Untitled
[Poems Submitted by Roy Green
(California)]: "The First Shoes", "To A Finish"
[Poems Submitted by Emily Meyer Smith
(Colorado)]: "It Blows Around", "The Christmas Tree", "Slicker-Break
Him", "Makin' A Break", "Going to Summer Camp", "The Serenade", "Layin'
For Him", "Rough Work", "The Wrangler", "To A Finish", "The Pensioner",
"That Smoke", "Snow in the Collar", "Hog Wild", "Cold Mornin's", "When a
Pony Slips His Pack", "The Joshua Shade", "The Arroyo", "The Coming
Change", "The Young 'Uns", "The Running Fight", "A Surprise", "Her
Neighbor's Kids", "The Washed Out Trail", "Turnin' 'Em", "Startin' Out",
"Hosses and Flies", "Gettin' It Settled", "Not Welcome", "Winter Work",
"Restin'", "Then and Now", "Lookin' Back", "The Old Timers", "A Busted
Rope", "Cow Milkin'", "They Don't Thank You", "On Their Own", "The
Tinker", "Range Brandin'", "Retired", "Why They Keep A Hoss", "The Drag
Driver", "The First Lesson", "Doing Her Best", "The Rope Corral", "Dog
Holes", "The Drouth", "The Troop Hoss", "He Didn't Belong", "It Can
Happen", "Winter Hosses", "They Can Take It", "A Wet Rope"
[Poems Submitted by Davis Wallentine
(Idaho)]: "Shelter", "The Young 'Uns", "Try and Git It", "Decidin' Who's
Who", "The Coyote's Call", "In the Snow", "Cowboy's Prayer", "January",
"The Early Worm", "The Stage Coach", "Range Brandin'", "Not So
Slow"
[Poems Submitted by Arthur Glaser
(Nevada)]: "The Bunkhouse Mirror", "Not Welcome", "The Running Fight",
"They Can Take It", "Leaving the Wreck", "Summer Time", "The Pensioner",
"The Veiled Rider", "The Troop Hoss", "Turnin' 'em", "Old and Foxy",
"Cold Mornin's", "Restin'", "Scatterin' Camp", "Feedin' Time", "A Busted
Rope", "Snow in the Collar", "Startin' Out", "The Coming Change",
"Wranglin'", "The Silk Shirt", "A Tangle", "Shelter", "Sidin' His Dad",
"The Old Timers", "Ants in His Pants", "A Surprise", "Then and Now",
"Winter Work", "In the Snow", "Her Neighbor's Kids"
[Poems Submitted by Janet Hunewill
(Nevada)]: "Shoveling Ice Out of the Trough", "Doing Her Best", "Sidin'
His Dad", "Her Colt", "Makin' a Break", "Turnin' 'em", "Winter Work", "A
Tangle", "It Can Happen", "The Coming Change", "Going to Summer Camp",
"Startin' Out", "Restin'", "Old and Foxy", "Cow Milkin'", "They Can Take
It", "The Troop Hoss", "Getting It Settled", "Range Brandin'", "The
Washed Out Trail", "The Cow and the Calf", "Winter Hosses", "A Wet Rope",
"Caught Nappin'", "The Old Timers", "Her Neighbor's Kids", "When the
Grass is Short and the Old Cows Die", "The Cow Boy's Shirt Tail"
[Poems by The Holaday & Hampton Poet (Possibly Bruce
Kiskaddon)]: "On Foot", "Throwin' the Circle", "Hot Day", "The Varmints",
"Shoein' a Hoss", "The Cowboy's Mount", "On the Prod"
