Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Western states cowboy poetry collection
USU_FOLK COLL 11f
8 boxes, ca. 20 binders
4 linear feet
1984
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.
Collection materials are in English.
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).
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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.
Funded by a grant from the NEA Folk Arts Program, awarded to the Institute of the American West.
Originally processed by Barbara [Walker] Lloyd. Finding aid created by Susan Gross and Randy Williams, May 2004; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
Western states cowboy poetry collection, 1984. (FOLK COLL 11f: box, folder). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Chronological by year.
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
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.
West (U.S.)--Poetry.
Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Poetry.
Cowboys' writings, American--West (U.S.)
Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Songs and music--Texts.
Folklore--West (U.S.)
Folklore archives--West (U.S.)
Folklore
Arizona State Collection
1984
1
1
Abbott, Neil: "Broke Hosses", "Morro"
1984
Bartschi, D.P.: "Sunday Afternoon with the B/O Ranch Boys"
1984
Biddy, Dr. John: "Bring Back the cowboys"
1984
Caulton, Gayle: (Submission from other poet: Buck Grayhand - "The Inbetween Times Cowboy")
1984
Cline, Susie: "Ode to an Old Cowhand", "Old Blackie", "Wild Ones on the 'T' Range", "The Wild Buck-A-Roo From the West"
1984
Costa, TC: "Cowboy", "San Felipe Rd.", "Warner's Ranch", "The Drifter"
1984
- 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"
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"
1984
Frazier, Alexander: "Roping and Running Free", "Bucking Horse of the Year", "Bunkhouse Blues", "On Behalf of Brave Beasts", "Rodeo Cowboy", "After the Roundup"
1984
Hadley, Drummond: "Just Another Clearing, Arena Cutting Competition"
1984
Hallford, Mary V.: "Shorty"
1984
Harper, Shirley R.: "El Toro"
1984
Haynes, Stanley G.: "A Wrangler's World"
1984
Heckthorn, Ada A.: Autobiography
1984
- 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"
1984
Johnson, Ralph: "The Drifter", "Charlie Brown"
1984
Johnstone, Andrew A.: "The Owyhee Breaks", "Old Delamar", "Pretty Silver City", "Toll of Advancement"
1984
Larson, Karen: "A Poem of Thanks", "A Recollection in Time"
1984
Lerma, Manuel N.: "Cowboys Are Forever", "Superstition Gold", "The Tenderfoot", "The Marfa Lights", "Miss Liberty"
1984
Logsdon, Guy: [See Bruce Kiskaddon Collection - Box 8, Folder 3]
1984
Mathews, Lisa: "Cowboy Style", "Hey Cowboy..."
1984
Morris, Enid: "The Backyard Pet", "For the Waddy"
1984
O'Brien, Bill: "A Free Spirit", "Stone Eagle in the Sky", "Eagletail Mountain"
1984
Patten, Ben Headly: "Ode to a Cowhorse", "The Cowboy", "Ode to a Wild Cow"
1984
Progressive Arizona & the Great Southwest:
1984
- 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"
1984
Reed, Lois M.: "Hearts and Hoofs", "On Smells", "The Horse", Untitled
1984
Rigoni, Herb: "The Cow Poke", "McDowel", "Old Paint and I"
1984
Sheehan, Chuck: "Feed Lot Steer"
1984
Squire, Ron: "Windmill's Song", "I Need a Catch Dog"
1984
Taylor, Rick: "The Occupational Hazard", "Ropin' in the Brush"
1984
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"
1984
Wagner, Alberta: "Clarence"
1984
Windes, William H.: "The Cinch", "The Ballad of Cherry-Cow Pete"
1984
Arizona Individual Collections
1984
1
2
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"
1984
Arizona Individual Collections
1984
1
3
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"
1984
Arizona Individual Collections
1984
1
4
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"
1984
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"
1984
Arizona Individual Collections
1984
1
5
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"
1984
Arizona Individual Collections
1984
1
6
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"
1984
California State Collection (A-K)
1984
2
1
Allison, Harriette: "2 a.m. Lies", "Dear Santee"
1984
Anderson, Norman: "Round 'Em Up"
1984
Astenius, Robert A.: Biography, "A Lone Cowboy", "A Cowboy's Song 'On the Run'", "Someone Knew", "A Lonesome Wolf", "My Wife"
1984
Bailey, Colleen M.B.H.: "A Bull Ride"
1984
Bender, Bill: "Remembering", "The Stuff That Just Ain't", "The Day I Climb Down From the Horse"
1984
Bowman, Cliff: Untitled, "Cowboy's Resolutions", "The Roll of Quarters", "Just a Cow Horse", Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
1984
Brown, Ed: Untitled, "To Whom It May Concern", "Perfect", "Record Book or Men's Lib", "Buzzy", "Saloons", "Cowdogs", "Cuyama", "The Right Outfit", "Eulogy"
1984
Carr, Paula: "The Days of Memories Past"
1984
Cunningham, Craig: "Buckaroos' Character", "American Legend", "Real Cowboys"
1984
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"
1984
Dylik, Joe: "A Cowboy's Life on the Range", "Cowboy Rodeo Rider"
1984
Ferguson, Gene: "Split Rein Man", "Old Cowboys"
1984
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"
1984
Gibson, Carol M.: "Crimes Canyon Aftermath", "The Hawk"
1984
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"
1984
- 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"
1984
Hill, Jim: "The Rodeo Woman"
1984
Ilardi, Tony: "Winter in September", "Old Truckee", "A Cowboy's Accident"
1984
Kelley, Gary: "Salinas Bound", "Larns Yarn", "Conversation", "The Weather Prediction", "Daybreak", "A Gathering", "A Bit of Prose", "Last in Line"
1984
Kemper, Troxey: "Squeaking Saddles", "Grass"
1984
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"
1984
California State Collection (L-Z)
1984
2
2
Leach, John F.: "Rodeo Cowboy", "Range Rider", "Stud", "Memories", "That's What Cowboys Are All About", "Buck and Me", "Goin' Home"
1984
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"
1984
Mahaney, Michael: "Goodbye California", "When Your Cowgirl Gets the Blues", "Movin'", "My Malibu Mountain Home"
1984
McCutcheon, Bob:
1984
- 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"
1984
McGahan, Edward A.: "Mr. Ed", "The Roadrunner"
1984
Mote, Russ: Biography, "River Roundup", "Smokey Joe", "Jack", "The Brand"
1984
Nelson, Paula: "Woodgrowers Blues"
1984
- 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"
1984
- Submissions by other poets:
- Harry Robb - "Old Pals"
- Unknown Author - Untitled
Pauls, Clara M.: "Cowboy Poetry Gathering", "Cowboy", "Final Ride", "Greener Pastures"
1984
Parkinson, Sharie: "Uncle Leonard's Gunny Sack"
1984
Pinney, Frank: "Lloyd Leslie", "Booger Red", "Hook 'Em Ira", "Selling the News", "The Compleat Catalog", "Tomaters"
1984
Ranney, Helen:
1984
- 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"
1984
Ross, Jim: "A Lot of Bull", "My Father Taught Me!", "Go Get 'Em, Elroy", "It's Branding Time Once More"
1984
Rossi, Duane: "Sierra Sunset", "Ecology"
1984
Smith, Jesse: Untitled
1984
Turnipseed, Margaret S.: "Poem I Never Wrote 'Til Now"
1984
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"
1984
Wilstron, Grace: "Cowboy Poet"
1984
California Individual Collection
1984
2
3
Claire Donner Collection: Papers of Nell Johnson submitted by Claire Donner
1984
Canada Collection
1984
2
4
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"
1984
Colorado State Collection
1984
2
5
Alberthsen, Holger: "Freight-Train", "The Ballad of Johnnie McCalain", "Kilpatrick's Cook", "Sagebrush in the Rain", "Howell"
1984
Arnold, Darrell: "It's Hard to be a Cowboy", "Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'", "There's Somethin' That a Cowboy Knows"
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- Rick Taylor - "The Bell Ranch Cowboy's Lament"
Barker, S. Omar: "The Murder Brand"
1984
Becksted, Jo: "The Cattleman's Prayer"
1984
Black, Baxter: "The Cowboy Poetry Gathering"
1984
Clapper, Ivan "Spec": "Reincarnation", "Saddest Story Ever Told", "Artificial Insemination"
1984
Croley, Lloyd M.: "Outlaws", "Rattlesnake Croley", "Johnson County Invasion", "Killer Cat Remembered", "The Last Ride of John Eldridge", "A Story of Christmas", "Self Defense"
1984
Dicke, Brian: "How the West Was Won"
1984
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"
1984
Hurley, Hazel C.: "Did You Ever Ride A Trail Horse?", "Did You Ever Think?"
1984
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"
1984
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"
1984
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"
1984
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"
1984
Seares, Dan: "The Auctioneer", "Feeding Bales", "Tank Floats", "Coyotes Dancing", "Chopping Ice", "Thirty Percent Chance"
1984
Steadman, Vida N.: "A Tribute to Texas Longhorns"
1984
Stueham, Tammy: "I Am A Cowboy Boot"
1984
Thornburg, Ed: "Thoroughbred", "Don't Come Out West"
1984
Watt, Jeremiah: "The Proven Day", "The Silk Scarf", "The Line Up", Untitled
1984
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"
1984
Colorado Individual Collection
1984
2
6
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"
1984
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?"
1984
- 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"
Florida State Collection
1984
3
1
Barry, Matilda B.: "Melancholy Cow"
1984
Barthle, Jeanette: "I'm a Florida Cowboy"
1984
Colletti, Terri: "Cattle Drive"
1984
Cunliffe, Ruth E.: "A Florida Cowboy", "The Florida Rancher"
1984
Durrance, Phyllis: "Salute to Eddie Sap", "The Cowboy Way", "The Deer Hunter"
1984
Nystrom, Karl Reinhold: "The Covered Wagons", "The Wanted Man"
1984
Walker Ruth Sutton: "Prairie Fantasy"
1984
Unknown: Submitted by G.R. Wrenn: "Cowboys"
1984
Idaho State Collection (A-O)
1984
3
2
Barton, Owen: "My Old Stetson", "Lawman - Jess Harris", "Early Morning Round-Up", "The Red Ant Hill", "Cowboy Poetry Reading"
1984
Bennett, Al: "City Dudes"
1984
Blevins, Jim E.: "The Fate of Rattle Snake Jake"
1984
Brauns, Muzzie: "Old Cowboy Blues", "Lady Lou", "Ballad of Billy Alder", "Cowboy", "Born 100 Years Too Late", "The Cowboy From Mackay"
1984
Buchanan, Vicki: "The Trucker and the Buckaroo"
1984
Carroll, Clay R.: "Campfires and Cold Stars", "The Endangered Species", "Message to My Wife", "The Dream", "The Thaw"
1984
Castle, Lucy: "Garden Scandal", "Sequel to Garden Scandal", "Grasshopper Jim", "More Memories", "Devil's Tower"
1984
Chadwick, David Bean: "Grandpa's Sale", "Fencing"
1984
Colby, Agnes: Autobiography, "I Could If I Wanted To", "Time", Untitled
1984
Cooke, Kerry:
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- Anonymous - "Mornin' on the Desert"
Corrigan, Ellie: "Dave Said", "Black Tea", "Home Place", "Uncle Bill Remembered"
1984
Creek, Marian G.: "Old-Fashioned Know-How"
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- David Gommoll - "Billy", "Didja"
Doramus, William "Bill": "Did You Have a Nice Day?", "Day Workin'", "Cowboy's Wife", "Bill or the Colt", "Down Fence", "Who Made That Saddle"
1984
Erickson, Donna H.: "Hey, You Old Bear", "The Doe", "Ol' Mag", "The T.V. News Blues", "Mornin's", "The Perfect Day"
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- Author Unknown - Untitled Poem
Green, Roberta Helen: "Mail Order Bride", "My Extra Special Cowboy Friend", "Fencing"
1984
Hirschi, Bill: "Pick-Up Cowboy", "Bar-B-Que Beef", "Changes", "263"
1984
Hurd, Dorothy: "The Sheepherder Blues"
1984
Jordan, J.: "For C.C. Rider & Colorado"
1984
Kaster, Howard: "The Shipwreck"
1984
Kaufman, Alfred:
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- Author Unknown - "Ten Cent Paint"
Kingsley-Smith, Clive: "The Tail of the Herd"
1984
Little, Bill: "The Gray's Creek Fence"
1984
Lower, Ted: "The Last Time That I Saw Sam"
1984
Mecham, Lois: "My Daddy Was a Wild Horse Chaser", "The Blue Horse", "Bear Creek Rose", "Driving Cow Away From a Stackyard of Hay"
1984
Morisette, Larry: "Zeberdin", "Too Much Beer", Untitled, "Wild Cow Milk", "A Toast"
1984
Munger, Morgan: "Memories of an Old Buckaroo", "Christmas Mail, Ola Style", "Christmas in the Good Old Days", "Motherhood, Taxes, and Apple Pie"
1984
Noakes, Irvin: "Hold Your Horses", "Mountain River Country", "That Old Familiar Skyline", "Out in the Big Sky Country"
1984
Newel, Claude B.: "Sputnik"
1984
Norskog, Howard: "The Message", "The City", "Yesterday's Cowboy", "Prayer of a Cowboy", "The High Country", "The Waterfall"
1984
Idaho State Collection (P-Z)
1984
3
3
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"
1984
Passey, Dorothy: "Slug Creek Drive"
1984
Pearl, Clara: "Spurs Lament"
1984
Pearson, Lynn: "Tales of an Old House"
1984
Perkins, Len: Untitled, Untitled, "I Saw the Stars"
1984
Preston, Scott: "Pappy's Final Stand"
1984
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"
1984
Short, Iris Savilla: "A Good Neighbor Gives to His World"
1984
Short, Rayburn: "My Cowpoke Ditty"
1984
Short, Rick: "Wood River Country and You"
1984
Sievers, Don D.: "Rain Fallin'", "U.S. Farmer", "I Know Him Well"
1984
Smith, Vera L.: "Life of a Cowboy"
1984
Sparks, Trisha: "Julie's Plight"
1984
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"
1984
Sunderland, Ruth R.: "To Nevada in October", "My Country Road", "One Day on the Farm", "I Am a Farm Wife"
1984
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"
1984
Tingey, Dave: 6 Untitled Poems, "The Good Old Days", 6 Untitled Poems
1984
Tully, Buck: "The Owyhee Buckaroo and the Idaho Toast", "Two Good Men"
1984
Wallentine, Davis: "The Joy of the Range"
1984
- 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
1984
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"
1984
- Submission by other poets:
- S. Omar Barker - "Purt Near"
- Author Unknown - "The Piddling Pup"
Wright, Ann: "Longing For Home"
1984
Author Unknown: "A Lonely Cowboy", "The End of a Dusty Trail", "Western Saloon", "A Cowboy"
1984
Idaho Individual Collection
1984
3
4
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"
1984
Idaho Individual Collection
1984
3
5
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"
1984
Kansas State Collection
1984
3
6
Buess, Anita Durand: "Choices",
1984
MacBeth, Tom: "Bull Dreamin'", "Cowman's Christmas List", "Homeplace Auction", "How to Sell More Beef", "Prairie Song", "Quality Time"
1984
Mills, Phyliss Macy: "The Last of the Handshake Cowboys", Untitled, Untitled, "Who'll Feed You and Me"
1984
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"
1984
Montana State Collection
1984
4
1
Ahrens, Randall W.: "Facts", "Born Too Late", "Memories of a Packer", "A State of Mind"
1984
Casey, T.J.:
1984
- 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"
1984
Geissler, Val: "Call It What You Like", "An Outlaw To Ride"
1984
Grue, Betty Lynne: "I've Rode", "Frost on the Fork Handle", "Rain on the Tent Fly"
1984
Grue, B.L. & Steve Rone: "Dear John"
1984
McRae, Wally: "The Lease Hound", "Eminent Domain"
1984
Montana Folklife Project: [From When the Work's All Done This Fall]
1984
- 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"
1984
Peterson, Gwen and Jeane Rhodes: "Cow Around the Outhouse (Refined and Elegant Montana Limericks)"
1984
Ramburg, Tom: "B.S.er's"
1984
Ross, Bob: "Lure of the Sagebrush", "Lament of a Cowman", "Longhorn Cattle", "When Horses Wear Diamonds", "Old Grass in the Spring", "Keep Smiling"
1984
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"
1984
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"
1984
Sheehan, Chuck: "A Trip Across the West", "Cowboy Joe", "Feed Lot Steer"
1984
Smith, Marie Weedon: Biographical Sketch, "Miracle on the Mountain", "Strangers on the Plain", "A Long Way Home", "The Roundup"
1984
Smith, Mike: "Oop's", "Grandpa", "Who Will Come. Who Will Watch?", "Snuff's Card Room"
1984
Sullivan, Bill: "To the Western Horse", "The Prairies"
1984
Walker, Chad: "His Last Days"
1984
Wilson, Howard: "The Day My Saddle Retired", "The Barn Dance", "The Cowboy Boot", "The Cowboy's Saddle", "Fort Keogh"
1984
Montana Individual Collection
1984
4
2
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"
1984
Montana Individual Collection
1984
4
3
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"
1984
Montana Individual Collection
1984
4
4
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"
1984
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"
1984
Nebraska State Collection
1984
4
5
Connell, Wayne: "Old Buck, The Sodbuster"
1984
Ewing, John T.: "Excess Baggage at a Branding", "The Pioneers", "The Day My Vacation Started", "How the Veterinarians Came to Be"
1984
Green, Gordon: "Buryin' Fred", "Brandin' Time", "Cowboy Psychologist", "A Horse", "The Horse Sale", "Top of the Line Cowboy", "Rodeo Cowboy"
1984
Johnston, Bob: "The Finals", "Modernization or the Last Windmill", "A Breed Apart", "The Sea of Grass", "The Horse Trainer"
1984
Parker, Howard: Untitled, "You Can't Go Back Again"
1984
Reichenberg, Monte: "Alone or Lonely", "Lessons
1984
Nevada State Collection (A-G)
1984
4
6
Andrus, R. Blain: "A Gathering Storm", "The Birth of a Portuguese Bullfighting Horse", "A Cowboy From New York"
1984
Badt, Milton B.: "The Love Sonnets of a Cowpuncher"
1984
Baker, Hal:
1984
- 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"
1984
Bowman, Don: "Let's Save the Cowboys", "Cowboy's Resolution"
1984
Bradley, Lucile: "Beatty, Nevada", "Swappin' Yarns at Roundup", "Utah Carl", "I Get the Blues When it Rains"
1984
Brown, Robert G.: "My Dogs", "At Sunset", "Wilcox Ranch in Summer", "Mexican Irrigator", "The Boss's Lament", "The Saga of Poco Joe"
1984
Cheney, Walter "Bimbo": "Thanks", "He's Nothin' But a Cowboy", "Broncs", Untitled, "Changes"
1984
Coy, Marcella "Monty": "The Tenderfoot", "California Trail", "The Last Round-Up", "The Cowboy's Life"
1984
Craig, Joseph Allen: "A Young Buckayro", "Paradise Ridge"
1984
Davis, Homer Jr.: "Sudden Death", "The Prairie"
1984
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"
1984
Dixon, Rinnie: "Mustang Run"
1984
Doney, Scott: Biographical Sketch, "Born a Cowboy", "The Life of a Cowboy", "God's Campfire", "Riding For the Brand", "Eternity"
1984
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"
1984
Ellis, G. Grace: "My West", "The Stars Hang Low Tonight"
1984
Etchinek, Julia: Autobiography, "I Am Western", "Bullrider", "Looking For a Cowboy", "Throwback", "Little Cowboy"
1984
Fablinger, Eldon E.: (3) Untitled Songs
1984
Fletcher, Curley W.: "Wild Buckaroo", "Strawberry Roan", "The Flyin' Outlaw", "Yavapai Pete", "The Cowboy's Prayer"
1984
Fouts, Billy: "The Poet Gather"
1984
Frank, Ralph: "Ida-Dun"
1984
Gardner, Charley: "My Sister", "Long Valley Slough", "Recollection", "A Real Cowboy and a Would Be", "The Buckaroo Girl
1984
Garate, Patricia P.: "The Cowboy's Companion", "Mem'ries of an Old Friend", "Nightfall", "Out in Nevada"
1984
Garrett, Fred: "Rough Country Ropin'", "Cowboys, Cooks, and Calamity", "Hard Drive to the River", "Some Broncs I Have Named"
1984
Guild, Joseph: "At the Funeral of a Mason Valley Rancher", "The 'Perfect' Outfit", "Friends Meet", "Timberline Dreams"
1984
Nevada State Collection (H-Z)
1984
4
7
Hall, Barbara: Autobiography, "Wind Side of My Horse", "Doctor", "Bill", "Friend", "Old Cowboy", "Ranch Wife", "Old Horse"
1984
Hammond, Carl F.: "Before We Rode Out", "Her Majesty"
1984
Harris, Herbie: "I Don't", "Jokers-1-Are-Wild"
1984
Hawkes, Tony: "Sunday Thinkin'", "Five Card Stud", "Country Living"
1984
Hayden, Carl:
1984
- [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"
1984
Hustace, Donna K.: "Recollections", "I Want to Be a Cowboy", "Old Timer", "Way of Life"
1984
Johannes, Guy: "An Ode to the Western Women"
1984
Joseph, Sallie Knowles: "Sally, Cindy, and Becky Sue", "What's in a Name?"
1984
Joss, April: "Old Friend", "The Lovesick Cowboys Blues", "Changing Rules"
1984
Keller, H.R.: "Cold Track Dan"
1984
Kingsley, Alan: "The Winter Ride in '87", "The Ballad of Bull Sheet Queensley"
1984
Krammer, Gloria J.: Untitled, "Epitaph to a Cowboy"
1984
MacFarlane, J.: "A Dream of Mine", "Lazy Chase", "A Little East of Westwind", "Birth, Wild Birth", "Come With Me", "Singing Thoughts", "Branded and Broosed"
1984
Margraf, Grid Lee: "Just a Christmas"
1984
Mathes, Claude R.: Autobiography, "Fool's Gold", "Me and Him"
1984
Martin, Sunny: "Never Learn to Milk a Cow", "My Home State", "Diary of a Ranch Wife, or Pa and His Danged Ol' Cows"
1984
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"
1984
Mitchell, Waddie: "Cowboy Poetry Gathering", Untitled
1984
Moore, Christenca: Autobiography, "Nevada", "Spring in Nevada", "The Painted Pony", "The Ornery Cow", "The Cowboy"
1984
Odam, Norman Carl: "Cactus", "Crack of Dawn"
1984
Penola, Angela: "Rodeo", "The Cowboy"
1984
Profit, Ilene: "Cow Camp Games"
1984
Prunty, Frank: "A Plumb Lost Cowboy"
1984
Riordan, Pauline: "Needs of a Cowboy"
1984
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"
1984
Rosaschi, Connie: "Range Cowboy's Winter Lament", "Burkham Barn"
1984
Satterhwaite, Connie: "Bronco", "Out on the Wagon", "Being a Cowboy", "Turning Out!", "Cowboy's Christmas", "Growing Up"
1984
Sicking, Georgie C.: Untitled, "That Long Eared Bull", "That Little Ole Coyote", "Cowboy Bedroll", "To Be a Top Hand"
1984
Smith, Richard: "When the Saddle Was New", "To Tom Marvel", "Lucky", "Frank Stroud", "Moby Dick", "The Monument", "Burro", "Spooks"
1984
Stephenson, Wes: "My Mount", "An Old Wrinkled Cowboy"
1984
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"
1984
Thompson, Debbie: "Cowboy", "Weaving Time"
1984
Trumbo, Hershel: Untitled, "The Horseman and the Fly", "Can They Bloom Then"
1984
Turner, Dallas: "Rocky Mountain Oysters"
1984
White, Ed: "The Ghost of Cactus Flat"
1984
Author Unknown: "Pickle Prick", "Turkey in the Straw", "Peter Pullin' Blues", "Ruins", "The Treasure of Life"
1984
Nevada Individual Collection
1984
4
8
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"
1984
Nevada Individual Collection
1984
4
9
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"
1984
New Mexico Collection
1984
5
1
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"
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- Charles M. Russell - "Where Tracks Spell War or Meat", Untitled
Barker, S. Omar: "Christmas Thanks"
1984
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"
1984
Guldeman, Gene: "A Poem to a Son"
1984
Kelly, Kay: "AJB", "The Canyon Mares", "Ol' Snort", "A What??!"
1984
McCanless, Allen: "The Cowboy Soliloquy"
1984
McNamara, Kevin: "Sun Sets", "These Geese May Just Turn Again", "Barrel Racer and Me", "No Desperate Fingers", "The Next Twelve Months"
1984
Moore, Cecil: "The Cowboy Poet Convention"
1984
Morgan, Willie: (15) Untitled Poems
1984
Patterson, Paul E.: "The USTA Bees Don't Fly No More", "A Synopsis of Joshua"
1984
Sparks, Peggy: "Outlaw Horse", "The Old Women", "The Tumbleweed"
1984
Taylor, Gene: "When Satan Entered the Pen"
1984
Wallis, Juanita J.: "Cowpuncher's Rights", "Cowpuncher's Lament", "Taxpayers' Concerns", "Cowpunching Resembles a Bronc Ride", "God's Tapestry", "The Right Persuader", "Ranch Romances"
1984
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"
1984
New Mexico Individual Collection
1984
5
2
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"
1984
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"
1984
North Dakota State Collection
1984
5
3
Clause, Romie: "Chinook Wind", "Wild Roses", "Cattle Trails"
1984
Daniel, Forrest:
1984
- Submission by other poets:
- 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"
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- E.P. Boland - "Old Tarzan Qualifies..."
Grafton, Bennie M.:
1984
- 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"
1984
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"
1984
Murrey, Frank: "The Bronco", "Cowboys in the Spring", "The Coyote"
1984
Nelson, Rodney: Untitled
1984
Oyhus, Floyd C.: "The Feeder Buyer", "The Cowboy's Joy Ride"
1984
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"
1984
Reich, Roland: "Life on the Range"
1984
Wilson, Sam: "Beware of the Wilderness", "The Blizzard - February 5-10-78"
1984
Wilson, Viola and Sam: "Pioneer Memories"
1984
North Dakota Individual Collection
1984
5
4
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,
1984
- 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"
North Dakota Individual Collection
1984
5
5
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"
1984
Oregon State Collection
1984
5
6
Ash, Linda: Untitled
1984
Bates, Thelma: Submission by other poet: Unknown Author - "The Wheel"
1984
Black, Bill: "Moonshine Steer"
1984
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"
1984
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"
1984
Burkhart, Lona: "Old Broken Down Cowboy", "Ed's So Long"
1984
Butler, Larry D.: "Ranch Economics", "The West"
1984
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"
1984
Collins, Wendell: "Fouled Up", "My Dog Jake", "Class Reunion", "To Joe", "To An Idaho Pioneer", "A Thought To Youth", "Dad"
1984
Conner, Isabel: "A Cowboy's Memories", "Back on the Farm", "Frankie and Johnnie"
1984
Crawford, Larry: Autobiography, "The John Day", "Nosey", "The Plan"
1984
Edwards, Lenore & Merie: Submission by another poet: Unknown Author - "The Strawberry Roan" (Some attribute this to Curley Fletcher)
1984
Hancock, Sonny: "A Sailor's View of Texas", "The Sycan Barn", "A Bear Tale"
1984
Hancey, Mike: "The Wild Horse and Burro Hearing"
1984
Hobby, Cassie: "Old Ring", "My Sister 'Lois'"
1984
Johnson, Cassie: "Read 'Em and Weep", "Cowboy's Prayer", "Long Gone"
1984
Kossler, Kathryn L.: "Rawhide Pride", "Brothers"
1984
Lochrie, Mack: Biography, "The Modern Day Buckaroo", "Angels Do Fly"
1984
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"
1984
McGuire, M.G.: "The Lady Ranger", "The Bear"
1984
McMurty, Minnie: "Old Philmath, Wild and Wooly, in the Latter Part of June"
1984
Miller, Herbert: "Dreams and Reality", "Farewell to Antelope"
1984
Miller, Sara: Biography, "Dragging a Dog", "Goodbye to a Cowboy", "Walking After Dreams", "Feeling the Blue Lariat", "The Puncher and the Floosy"
1984
Munn, R.O.: "Cowboy Philosophy", "Young Fellers", "Cowboy Dan", "The Old West"
1984
Stafford, Kim: "To Elko and Back"
1984
Thomas, Jim: "The Cowgirl", "To Whom It May Concern", "They Say That Congress Has Passed the G.D. Bill of Rights"
1984
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"
1984
Wagner, Paul: "Umatilla County"
1984
Wyatt, Ronald: "The Powder Room", "Drugstore Cowboy", "The Champion", "The Rodeo Star"
1984
Oregon Individual Collection
1984
5
7
Burns Library Collection:Ken Pruitt - "The God Forsaken Land" [information on authorship]; 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"
1984
Kenny Grant Collection: [Poems by various authors]
1984
- 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"
- Jack Crawford - "The Burial of Wild Bill"
- R. Remlow Harris - "The Ignerant Bronc"
- James Edward Hungerford - "The Shinin' Rails"
- Harry R. Keller - "The Trail Herd"
- Henry Herbert Knibbs - "Pony Express"
- Floyd T. Wood - "Tenderfoot"
Oklahoma State Collection
1984
6
1
Lewis, Robert Edward: "The Legion of Desperate Men", "Custer's Luck"
1984
McSpadden, Clem: "The Cowboy's Prayer", "If Our Flag Could Talk"
1984
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"
1984
The Following Included from a Newspaper Article: "Boom Town Drifters", "Col. Colt's Revolver", "Red Desert Rodeo", "Old Cowboy", "Cowboy Winter"
South Dakota State Collection
1984
6
2
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"
1984
Badure, Greg: "It Snowed", "The Night Ol' Santa Almost Bit the Dust"
1984
Black Hills St. College Yellow Jacket Stamped Program:
1984
- 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"
1984
Bringsyellow, Johnny: "Since Time Began"
1984
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?"
1984
Conley, Georgene: "Inflation His the Range", "Cowboy Joe's Decision", "Little Sod Shanty", "A Toast to Calamity Jane", "A Small Disaster"
1984
Dennis, Bob: "Cowboys", "Cowboy's Hate", "The Best Time of Year", "The Chore", "Homeguard", "Ma an Ole Yeller", "Workhorses and Tractors"
1984
Field-Paulton, Susan: "The Storm", "Remembering New Mexico"
1984
Gifford, Jan Swan: "Just Dreamin'", "Those Old Eyes"
1984
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"
1984
Hawkes, Gary: "Chicken Planting Time", Untitled
1984
Hunt, Charles E.: "Third Generation", "Pinto Beans an' Bread", "Spring Morning", "Cowman...1984"
1984
Lantis, Bob: Untitled, "The Capture", "I'll Play These", Untitled
1984
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"
1984
Shanon, Phil: "The Old Cowboy", "The Cowboy Way"
1984
Anonymous:
1984
- Submission by other poets:
- Donald Gance - "My Wyoming"
- Gerald L. Graf - "Let the Wind Blow"
- Ray Wilkins - "Legion Limericks"
- Russell Baker - "Question"
Texas State Collection
1984
6
3
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"
1984
Davis, Alvin G.: "Cowboy Poetry", "Bull Shipper", "Beef Type", "Famous Firearms", "Horse Breeding", "Changing Jobs", Qualifications of Alvin G. Davis
1984
Gaba, Mike: "The Fighting Spirit of John Prather"
1984
Gardner, Viola: "My Primavera Doll"
1984
Lerado: (2) Untitled Poems, "My Cowboy Hat"
1984
McLaury, Buster: "Sling Loop Slover", Untitled, "The Bridle Rein Lesson", "Nigger Charly Smith", "Cowboy's Christmas Thanks", "Cowpuncher's Lament"
1984
McLaury, Sheryl: "My Old Hat", "The Cattle Guard", "The Cowboy's Wife", "A Cowboy's Wife's Two Husbands"
1984
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"
1984
Author Unknown: "Hell in Texas", "Texas a Paradise"
1984
Utah State Collection (A-J)
1984
6
4
Abel, James G.: "Last Wish", "A Man to Be"
1984
Aiken, Duke: "Along Memory Trail", A Collection of Poetry [See Table of Contents]
1984
Bayles, Finely H.: "Old Paper Face", "My Mom", "Country Comfort", "The Day Me and Strawberry Fell", "Sooner and the Serpent", "Outlaw Country"
1984
Berglund, Claude A.: "Ballad of Little Priest"
1984
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"
1984
Croft, Bucks: "The Bush Brotherhood"
1984
Dunbar, Don L.: "A Tribute to Claude"
1984
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"
1984
Faupell, Jess: No item (tape missing)
1984
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"
1984
Gentry, Frank: "Life's Deck of Cards", "To the Rednecks", "Spare the Mother Doe", Untitled
1984
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"
1984
Iverson, Hans Peter: "Hans Peter Iverson's Life History in Verse"
1984
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"
1984
Utah State Collection (K-Z)
1984
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5
Keller, Fred: "Blue Mountain"
1984
Kerr, C. Duane: "The Cowboy Goes to College", "There Was Lots They Never Told Me", "The Scrawny, Little, Brindle Bull"
1984
Lashley, Ray: "Clay Allison and the Kid", "A Ride With Chief Joseph"
1984
Lemon, Frank D.: "Left Handed"
1984
McArthur, J. Wayne: "Pardners", "The Cowboy's Challenge", "Son Don't Leave Me Behind", "A Cowboy's Lament"
1984
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"
1984
Mecham, Lee: "Cowboy Dreams"
1984
Montgomery, Livingston: "The Uinta Song"
1984
Moon, Michelle: "Behind the Chutes at the Rodeo"
1984
Mortenson, Vern: "They Ain't No Place Like Home", "Thought on Elko 1985", "The West That Was"
1984
Pearson, Glen L.: "A Toast to Horseholics", "Ballad of Idaho", "A Leg is A Leg", "Love Out of a Bottle"
1984
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"
1984
Peterson, Kent: "Summer Pasture", "The Toothache", "Paradise", "Single", "The Stud Farm"
1984
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"
1984
Robison, Ellis: "I Wouldn't Be a Puncher Man"
1984
Roundy, Don: "The Cowboy Goes To College", "Clippings"
1984
Smith, Melvin T.:
1984
- 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"
1984
Spague, Carl T.: "The Mormon Cowboy"
1984
Steadman, Linda D.: "Eulogy for Sarge - October"
1984
Stokes, L. Grant: "The Home Place", "Reflection of My Youth"
1984
Warburton, Jeff: "Jake and the Gunman", "The Price", "The Start", "Style", "The Old Hat", "The Last Request", "Cowboy Please Come Home", "The Visitor"
1984
Wilkerson, Arbun: "Fishing is the Greatest Fun"
1984
Anonymous: "Dad's Old Hat", "The Legend of Boastful Bill", "Smuggler", "Goose Egged"
1984
Utah Individual Collections
1984
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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"
1984
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"
1984
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",
1984
Utah Individual Collections
1984
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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",
1984
- 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"
1984
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"
1984
Washington State Collection
1984
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Ash, Lou:
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- 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"
1984
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"
1984
Haller, Amelia: "Visit From a Neighbor", "The Old Time Fiddler", "Water-Witching", "Almost Fourteen"
1984
Hofer, Jim: "Branding Those Dang Scottish Highlanders, Hooked by a Horn Near Conrad, Montana"
1984
Johnson, Irene: "A Cowboy's Farewell", "Cowboy's Lullaby"
1984
Kulm, Jay: "My Rattlesnake Poem", "The Vegetarian", "A Giant Four-Point Buck"
1984
Otto, Harold: "Milking a Herford Cow", "The Pecos Girl", "Cows and Logs"
1984
Walmsley, Mark: "Tom Horn", "High Country", "Down in the Canyon"
1984
Wassell, Bert: "Woman Power", "The Saint and the Sinner"
1984
Wyoming State Collection (A-N)
1984
7
3
Anderson, Gary: "Cowboys and Cows", "Cowman's Dream", "Cowboy Poetry Gatherin'", "The Masters", "Cowboy's Revenge", "One More Light", "Elko"
1984
Bell, Don: "Bert McCraken" (Reading), "Bunkhouse Poetry", Untitled, "Cowboy's Prayers", "The Dirty Thirty's", "Geritol and Prune Juice", "Cowboy Poetry"
1984
Burke, Tina: "Side by Side", "To Be or Not to Be -- A Cowboy", "...and a Lady", "A Lady's Perspective"
1984
Cramer, Idabel Corbett: "Popo Agie", "The Diamond Hook Today", "Range Tragedy", "Time Brings Change"
1984
Cameron, Pete: Untitled, "Walking the Ditch", "In Defense of Dudes", "Draft Horses", "Tribute to the Hardman Place", "Ole to a Mountain Ranch"
1984
Farris, Beerniece E.: Untitled
1984
Gupton, Mona: "Billy", "A Tale of Two Women", "The Boots", "Dreamin'"
1984
Hofeldt, John W.: "Spanky the Devil's Playmate", "Where the Mountains Kiss the Sky", "Representing the Cowboy State", "Me and My Wife"
1984
Jacobsen, Anita Nadine: "The Cowboy and His Sunflower Queen", "Howdy Pardner", "Old Time Dance"
1984
Jeppesen, Verna M.: "A Child's Prayer", "The Line Shack", "Ancient Red-Skin Legend"
1984
Johnson: Greasin' the Miles", "Dudes"
1984
Kaser, Mick: "Old Ephraim", "Rendezvous", "The Hippie and the Black", "Bozo"
1984
Kinchen, Trish: "Floored", "A Change in Tune", "Hanging On", "To My Little Buddie Jami"
1984
Kortes, Charles A.: "Teamwork", "The Wagon", "The Canner", "Old Patch", "Broken Treaty", "Gathering at Elko", "Parting of the Ways", "A Way of Life", "Drifting"
1984
Martin, Kenneth:
1984
- 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"
1984
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"
1984
McDonnell, Ada: "Twister", "Mean Old Cow", "Ghost's Cabin", "Rancher's Wife", "Milford Hall"
1984
McFarland, Sid: "Memories", "Rodeo Blues", Untitled", "Last Rodeo", "Thank You Rodeo", "Barrel Racing Bill"
1984
Norskog, Howard L.: "The Bucking Horse", "An Indian Tale", "The Big Horn Mountain", "Under the Beaver Rim", "The Gentle One", "Where Lilies Grow"
1984
Wyoming State Collection (O-Z)
1984
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4
Pecorara, Irene: "The Cowboy Poetry Gathering", "A Cowboy's Life", "The Cabin", "Slang-Time Cowboy Joe's Sojourn to Town" (an article)
1984
- Submission by another poet:
- Blondell Whitehead - "An Old West July 4th Celebration", "Lariat Sam"
Phillips, Jerry: "A Simple Cowboy's Prayer"
1984
Pioneer Museum in Lander, Wyoming:
1984
- 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"
1984
- [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"
1984
Wall, Edna J.: "The Rancher's Wife on Calving", "The Rancher's Wife on Helping"
1984
Unknown Author: "Jake and Roanie"
1984
Wyoming Individual Collections
1984
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5
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"
1984
Betsy Bernfeld Collections: (Poems by Various Authors)
1984
- 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"
1984
Wyoming Individual Collections
1984
7
6
S.M. Kahin Collection: (Poems by Various Authors)
1984
- 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]
Wyoming Individual Collections
1984
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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"
1984
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"
1984
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"
1984
Various State Collections
1984
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Alabama:
1984
Burgess, Rose - "Ancestor Cowboy"
Alaska:
1984
- Monroe, Larry - "Bernie", "Graves at Battle Creek", "Ocho", "Oh, Nevada", "Cowboy at the Palm", "Rainy Morning in a Cow Camp", Untitled
Illinois:
1984
- Altorfer, A.W. - Introductory Remarks, "Uncle Bill's Experiment", Autobiography Sketch
- Freeman, Ron - "Mighty Warrior", "Night Things"
- Zack, Paul - "The Confirmation", "The Last Time I Went to Town"
Iowa:
1984
- Johnston, Kenneth - "Tomichi"
- Ivins, Bob - "Ole Doc Pete's Tonic"
Mississippi:
1984
- Ingels, Frank - Untitled
Missouri:
1984
- Bergin, Martin J. - "Old Timer", "Ranch 'en Romance or the Old Rafter O", "Cowboy Calling", "Old Roany's Sister", "The City Feller", "Brush Hand"
Ohio:
1984
- Kennedy, Betsy - "And All Stars Fall"
- Bushnell, Clif - "The Dying Cowboy"
Pennsylvania:
1984
- Lane, John A. - "The Wild Ghost Herd of BIG-BAR-B"
Parodies
1984
8
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John Hahn, Lon Minkler, & Don Graham: "A Bull-ish Flap and That's No Bum Steer", The Tall and Uncut", (Logging Poems and Cartoons)
1984
Bruce Kiskaddon Collection
1984
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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"
1984
- [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"
Unknown Authors & Unknown Residence Collection
1984
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Unknown Authors: "Cowboys Prayer", "Little Joe the Wrangler's Sister Nell", "Ring Tail Red", "The Coyote", "The Old Cook", Untitled, Untitled
1984
Unknown Residence:
1984
- Chittenden, Larry - "New Year Wishes for the Mayo Family"
- Chittenden, Daniel - "Eulogy to the Bard"
- Condon, Nellie Gardner - "One Ornery Roan Steer"
- Gardner, Delia - Untitled
- Hamar, Nancy J. - "Santa is a Cowboy"
- Lawson, Henry - "Andy's Gone With Cattle"
- Marcoux, Bob - "Cowboys and Buckaroos"
- McGilvray, Shirley - "Elko '91"
- McKnight, Mickey - "Wit and Wisdom"
- Robison, Carson J. - "Goin' Home"
- Schutte, Lary - "Ma'a Favorite"
- Warner, J. Western - "The Old Strawberry Roan"
- Wetherelt, Francis - "The Hawk and the Dove"