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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COWBOYS Matches Found: 445 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "WHOOPEE TI YI YO, GIT ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I walked out one morning for pleasure Last Line: You're going to be beef steers by and by Variant Title(s): Cow-puncher's Song Subject(s): Cowboys 2:00 A. M. CALL, by RODNEY (ROD) NELSON Poem Source Last Line: They'll still be dead in the morning Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life A BAD HALF HOUR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder why I feel so restless Last Line: "annie laurie"" out on guard." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys A BORDER AFFAIR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spanish is the lovin' tongue Last Line: "adios, mi corazon." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Love - Cultural Differences; Love Affairs; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god. Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY AT THE CARNIVAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yes, o' cose it's interestin' to a feller from the range" Last Line: An' he thinks o' nothin' but his grub an' hoss an' steers Subject(s): Carnivals;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY RACE, by JO CULBERTSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: A pattering rush like the rattle of hail Last Line: The gauntlet is flung and the race is begun! Subject(s): Competition; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I could not be so well content Subject(s): Cowboys;man-woman Relationships;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Male-female Relations;southwest;pacific States A COWBOY TOAST, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the passing cowboy, the plowman's pioneer Last Line: With cattle, cattle, cattle, and sage and sand and sun. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY'S HOPELESS LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard that story ofttimes about that little chap Last Line: An' shun the loco weed o' love when there's an angel round. Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY'S LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the last steer has been branded" Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY'S PRAYER (WRITTEN FOR MOTHER), by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lord, I've never lived where churches grow Last Line: That stretches upward toward the great divide. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys A COWBOY'S SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whar y'u from, little stranger, little boy?" Subject(s): Boys;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY'S WORRYING LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ust to read in the novel books 'bout fellers that Last Line: An' a-throwin' the breath o' life away bunched up into sighs. Heigh-ho! Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A DANCE AT THE RANCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from every point they gaily come, the bronco's unshod feet" Subject(s): Cowboys;dancing & Dancers;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A HOME ON THE RANGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam" Last Line: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word / and the skies are not cloudly all day Subject(s): Cowboys A NEVADA COWPUNCHER TO HIS BELOVED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lonesome? Well, I guess so!" Subject(s): Cowboys;nevada;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Loneliness;southwest;pacific States A RANGER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never made parade of tooth or claw Last Line: And he labored with the sinners of the trail. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A ROUNDUP LULLABY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Desert blue and silver in the still moonshne Last Line: All of us are waitin' for the mornin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys AIR'D OUT, by JESSE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was ridin' this little sorrel horse Last Line: Literally aired my butt out Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ALCHEMISTS, by J. B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Renie was different, %a spawn of the plains Last Line: Forgin' gold from plain pewter and brass Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ALKALI PETE HITS TOWN, by T. J. MCCOY Poem Source First Line: Clear the trail, you short-horn pilgrims Subject(s): Cowboys ALL THIS WAY FOR THE SHORT RIDE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: After grand entry cavalcade of flags, Last Line: For grabs, a bride's bouquet %pitched blind. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ALONE, by DENNIS GAINES Poem Source First Line: Cowboy! Ho! The title he'll claim Last Line: Then a tear you'll gladly save for the day he %fills his grave ... All alone Subject(s): Cowboys AMONG SHOOTIN' STARS, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Sold bronc saddle %foreclosed cows Last Line: Sweet smell mist, let it take its course %for my heart is two, because of you Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ANCIENT BEAVERSLIDE, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Alone it stood, %all made of wood Last Line: Though broken backed %an ancient beaverslide Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ANOTHER WRECK, by BARBARA HALL Poem Source First Line: I stir the spuds and check the coffeepot Last Line: So we'll go to emergency to get him patched up again Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ANSWERED PRAYER, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: Jake, the rancher, went one day to fix a distant fence Last Line: He didn't recognize your voice and cranked some guy's truck in %north dakota Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ANTHEM, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: And in the morning I was riding Last Line: Those horsemen will ride all with me %and we'll be good, and we'll be free Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life AT A COWBOY DANCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Git yer little sage hens ready Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States AT THE COWBOY PANEL, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: About an hour before lunch Subject(s): West (u.s.); Cowboys; Southwest; Pacific States BACHIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives are hid; our trails are strange Last Line: All 'fore the woman came. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Australia; Cowboys BACKDROP ADDRESSES COWBOY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Starspangled cowboy Subject(s): Cowboys BACON, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're salty and greasy and smoky as sin Last Line: From omaha out to the coast! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys BALLAD OF BUZZ AND ART, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: Ol' bryan out in sante fe Last Line: They will shake him loose again Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) BAR-Z ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, by PERCIVAL COMBES Poem Text First Line: We ain't no saints on the bar-z ranch Last Line: What ain't no saints, as I said. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States BARN CATS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: It's funny, the things you remember Last Line: Is really better than barn cats %and cow-cured headaches Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BATTLE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you mind that old fight in the rattles Last Line: The bill must go to mother and the girls! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Guns; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BEAR ROPIN' BUCKAROO, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Source First Line: Now ropin' bears (says uncle sid) Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Cowboys BEAR TRAP, by J. W. BEESON Poem Source First Line: The old saddle was built on a freemont tree Last Line: Cause angel rode the reaper %on that saddle's final bride Subject(s): Cowboys BEDROLL, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: There's a hole in the wagonsheet big as my head Last Line: My bed's on the top of the pile Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BELLERIN' AND BAWLIN', by LINDA ASH Poem Source Subject(s): Cowboys BENNY REYNOLDS' BAREBACK RIGGIN', by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A bacon slab a-boiled black in oil every day Last Line: It's built at adam's saddlery from snakehide tanned by eve Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) BERT, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: She was my neighbor thirty years Last Line: The day that I run out Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) BIG HIGH AND LONESOME, by BAXTER BLACK Poem Source Subject(s): Cowboys BIRTH OF A NATIVE TEXAN, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: I'm here to say I'm texican from my hat down to my boot Last Line: I'd have to say with no delay, there ain't no place like texas! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BLACK LADY MARE, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There's a colt that's following my black lady mare Last Line: Well, just when I'm thinking I figured her out %that old biddy kicked me again Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BLACKROCK PASS, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: A thunderstorm began to form Last Line: And I'll wager these successful men %would like to return as much as I Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BOOK, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Not so awful long ago Subject(s): Cowboys BRANDING DAY, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: A reasonable beginning Last Line: Wearing pale blue pyjamas %with the fly wide open Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BRANDS, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Me an' slim was movin' heifers Last Line: I just run out o' air Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BREAKERS OF BRONCHOS, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So! - breakers of bronchos! - with miles of barbed wire Last Line: Or bridle it? Or straddle the lightning flash? Subject(s): Cowboys BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States BRONE STOMPERS SAGE WISDOM, by KEITH AVERY Poem Source First Line: When evesdropping dudes %I oft' hear it said Last Line: But no one will tell you %they don't use their head Subject(s): Cowboys BUCKIN' HORSE BALLET, by LUCKY WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: The jigger boss hollered horses Subject(s): Cowboys BUCKING HORSE MOON, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A kiss for luck, then we'd let 'er buck Last Line: Beneath montana's blue roan %bucking horse moon Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BUCKSKIN FLATS, by GORDON EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: No hoofprints planned Subject(s): Cowboys BUENO,' WHICH IN SPANISH MEANS GOOD, by NYLE A. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Stick around now and I'll tell ya one more Subject(s): Cowboys BULLHIDE CHAPS AND MEMORIES, by JIM SHELTON Poem Source First Line: Today I talked to madge Last Line: And we'll give back this piece of leather %and the bullhide chaps you wore Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BUNKHOUSE LAWYER, by J. B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Just a mite too bronky, yet,' Last Line: You hung it on too big a tree Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O bury me not on the lone prairie Last Line: With a prayer to him who my soul will save Subject(s): Cowboys;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States BUZZARD AND NOAH, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: We never meant to buy the colt Last Line: A sleek cowhorse in his prime, %and a stove-up little bay Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) CATTLE, HORSES, SKY, AND GRASS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source Last Line: And all these things that sway and pass Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) CHANGE ON THE RANGE, by SUNNY HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: The way the times and customs change these days is sure a fright Last Line: But back in those days folks I knew all used to call 'em panty hose.' Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) CHARLES GOODNIGHT'S DREAM, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: He's been in the saddle since way before dawn Last Line: At the cavvy strung out behind charles goodnight's dream Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) CHICKENS AND COWS, by DAN BRADSHAW Poem Source First Line: I've studied all kinds of critters Last Line: And serve 'em on next sunday's table Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) CHOOKALOSKI MARE, by LUCKY WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Got entered in the broncs Subject(s): Cowboys CHRISTMAS WALTZ, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The winter is here and the old year is passing Last Line: Then all of their slumbers are filled with this song Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COLORADO MORTON'S RIDE, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Colorado morton's riding far Last Line: He won't be back with the circle-bar. Subject(s): Cowboys; Sacrifices CONFRONTATION, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: A bride and groom of just three days Last Line: Take a scrub brush to my coffeepot Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COOK'S TALE, by J. B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Sittin 'round after supper Last Line: From the hard school of life %and the sixty year toll that it took Subject(s): Cowboys COUNTRY GRAFT, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: A babe who needs a mama Last Line: This rancher won't have to bottle-feed %unless she gets another Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COW BELLS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: So often when our wan blue dusk wears thin Last Line: Oft on old loma evenings warmly fell. Subject(s): Cowboys; Levin, Rahel Robert; Spain; Varhagen Von Ense, Mrs. Karl COW BOY, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: In the far west Last Line: Crosses the ohio Subject(s): Cowboys COW GAS, by DAN BRADSHAW Poem Source First Line: A cowboy and his pard Last Line: As he finds his own relief Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COW'S HEAD, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: I've read all kinds of cookbooks Last Line: Or one hundred hungry women Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COWBOY, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS Poem Text First Line: Cowboy, cowboy Last Line: Seek muscle and brain. Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY BOOTS, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was little Last Line: Vulnerable to %nagging self doubts Subject(s): Children; Cowboys; Shoes COWBOY COMMON SENSE, by MIKE DAWSON Poem Source First Line: In them sierry petes out preskit way Last Line: Yep...It's been a long time since I seen a white horse!' Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COWBOY COUNT YOUR BLESSIN'S, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: Two waddies rode together Last Line: So I'll keep my horn know in my rope, %'cause I can still count all of mine.' Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY REEL, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Ain't a hand been hatched since 1950,' Last Line: Til you've fished while pitchin', there ain't no way to tell Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COWBOY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One night as I lay on the prairie Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't got no special likin' fur the toney sorts o' Last Line: An' mistook the proper time to have it out. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States COWBOY WENT A-COURTIN', by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: This bunkhouse talk of cowboy romance Last Line: That's when he heard her last request Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWBOY'S COMPLAINT, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: I wouldn't be a cowboy for a skunk-boat full of gold! Last Line: "an' then he kinder grins an' says: ""I wouldn't -- but I am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY'S FAVORITE, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: When a man spends his life on horseback Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY'S GETTIN' UP HOLLER (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wake up, jacob, day's a-breakin' Last Line: Git up now and git it while it's hot Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY'S PRAYER, by CURLEY FLETCHER Poem Source First Line: Out on the western prairies Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOY'S TOAST, by DICK GIBFORD Poem Source First Line: Here's to the best of the good Subject(s): Cowboys COWBOYIN' DAY, by GARY MCMAHAN Poem Source First Line: Morning is just a thin line to the east Last Line: And thanks again, lord, for my day in the saddle %amen Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWBOYS BETWEEN RANCHES, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Mom and dad auctioned their ranch in 1960 Last Line: Their eyes remind me of the wilderness %glowing defiantly in the dark Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWDOGS, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now some cowdogs have pedigrees Last Line: If we had a dog that could work cows %we would know what to name him Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWDOGS, GENERALLY SPEAKING, by SUNNY HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: You know, I always did work for big outfits Last Line: But they're good s.O.B.S when they're dead Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) COWS AND LOGS, by HAROLD OTTO Poem Source First Line: For many years I herded cows Subject(s): Cowboys D-2 HORSE WRANGLER, by D. J. O'MALLEY Poem Source First Line: One day I thought I'd have some fun Subject(s): Cowboys DANCIN', by TOM SHARPE Poem Source First Line: Now my daddy was a dancer Last Line: Who would never try to cut it on his dance Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) DEACON AND THE DUN, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: Ol' deacon was a puncher, born a hundred years too late Last Line: He could have jumped the other way, let dunny take the fall,%but deacon gave his life to save a frie Subject(s): Cowboys DEATH OF JUAN CHACON, by FIN BAYLES Poem Source First Line: The eastern sky was growing light Last Line: But they're never gonna get the chance %'cause juan chacon is dead Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DEM BUCKIN' BRONCO BLUES, by DENNIS GAINES Poem Source First Line: I guess wrango jim was fifty-four and crowdin' fifty-five Last Line: Why, hell, I just might have to use that trick myself someday Subject(s): Cowboys DENVER JIM, by SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Say, fellers, that ornery thief must be nigh us Last Line: It reversed the decision,— the court was adjourned. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Mothers & Sons; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States DEVIL AN' OL' BILLIE BOB, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Ol' billie bob is plumb confused Last Line: No oklahoma cowboys. %send them okies to st. Pete.' Subject(s): Cowboys DRIFTER AND THE HOMEGUARD, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: You say you'd like for me to give a detailed dissertation Last Line: That the homeguard was a drifter 'fore the drifter settled down Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DROUGHT OF SEVENTY-SEVEN, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It was dry in the fall of seventy-six Last Line: But she's never caused me half of the loss %that politicians create with a pen Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DUDE WRANGLER, by GAIL GARDNER Poem Source First Line: I'll tell you a sad, sad story Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime And Criminals DUDES, by NICK JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: We were camped just under hawk's rest Subject(s): Cowboys DYING COWBOY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I walked through tom sherman's barroom Subject(s): Cowboys DYING TIMES, by ROSS KNOX Poem Source Subject(s): Cowboys EARLY MORNING ROUNDUP, by OWEN BARTON Poem Source First Line: Have you listened still on a desert hill Subject(s): Cowboys EASY CHAIRS AND SADDLE SORES, by ROSS KNOX Poem Source First Line: City folk sit back in their reclining chairs Subject(s): Cowboys ESCORTING GRAMMY TO THE POTLUCK ROCKY MOUNTAN OYSTER FEED, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Lean ray krone bellers through a fat cumulus Last Line: Happy dreams all night long in my sunday boots Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) FEARS, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: There's a big old ring around the moon Last Line: I lie...'cuz what could I say Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) FIFTY DOLLARS, by MIKE DAWSON Poem Source First Line: Two young dudes from boston town Last Line: With these words, softly spoken: 'I need fifty dollars.' Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) FILL UP THOSE GLASSES, BARTENDER, by JIM BOLLERS Poem Source First Line: You've got lots of beer, wine and whiskey Subject(s): Cowboys FLYIN' OUTLAW, by CURLEY FLETCHER Poem Source First Line: Come gather 'round me, cowboys Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime And Criminals FOR JEFF, by JON BOWERMAN Poem Source First Line: You followed rodeo from calgary to el paso Subject(s): Cowboys; Rodeos FOR STEVE AND TED, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Slim comes back, reporting Last Line: And one old gelding, tired and crippled, %gets a decent drink Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) FOR WOODY, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: From the snowdrifts in the canyons Last Line: I'll just go about my business, %till this feeling - goes away Subject(s): Cowboys FREE VERSE, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: After I perform my rhyme Last Line: But with rhyme, you know I'm done Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) FREEWAYS AND CARS, by JESSE SMITH Poem Source First Line: An old woman sat on the porch, watched the sun sink behind the hill Last Line: And there ain't no smog from cars Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) FREIGHTIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty miles from taggart's store Last Line: Out the stretchin' road. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men Last Line: Ee—yow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States GATES, by BARBARA HALL Poem Source First Line: One of the stories I've heard all my life Last Line: There's one main reason why a rancher takes a wife Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) GATHERING CATTLE IN THE DEERTRACKS PASTURE, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: No wind, still the dry side-oat's stems Subject(s): Cowboys GATHERING THE DOUBLE O'S BULL, by ROSS KNOX Poem Source First Line: We was sittin' 'round a table in a bar on whiskey row Last Line: How they gathred that bull by slammin' the gate %upon their tippy toes Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) GENERATIONS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: More than casual %but less than %constant companions Last Line: His father's death %make us %the old men now Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GETTIN' ON, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: You cowboys can tell your bronc ride tales Last Line: Cause their favorite mornin' pastime %is watching me get on Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GIVE US A SONG, IAN TYSON, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Write me a tune, ian tyson Last Line: So, please sing one more time, ian tyson, %your song. Yes, sing it again Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GLOW, by BILL SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Well, what's in a fire Subject(s): Cowboys GO AND JUST BUCKAROO, by LEON FLICK Poem Source First Line: They say with barbed wire came the fall of the west Last Line: And out in the west, when they lay me down to rest %I'll go and just buckaroo Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GOD OF THE OPEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the open, though I am so simple Last Line: Help me see you in the god of the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GOD'S RESERVES, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One time, 'way back where the year marks fade Last Line: And restin' himself from the noise of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys GOD'S SUMMER RANGE, by BILL LARSEN Poem Source First Line: The grass grows thick Last Line: And got nothin' agin it, %but, it belongs to the ol' boy upstairs! Subject(s): Cowboys GOING TO THE SHAWNEE RODEO, by DON BELL Poem Source First Line: I was fightin' this model t ... Oklahoma clay Subject(s): Cowboys; Rodeos GOING TO TOWN FOR PARTS, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Whenever the tractor quits or balks Last Line: No wonder I'm round the bend Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GOL-DARNED WHEEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I can ride the wildest bronco Subject(s): Cowboys GOOD, CLEAN FUN!, by RODNEY (ROD) NELSON Poem Source First Line: I remember making hay with dad Last Line: It's gonna take some mighty sweet talkin' %when that light burns out again! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GRACIOUS LADY OF MY CHILDHOOD, by BOB PETERSON Poem Source First Line: I'm a son of wyoming Last Line: It's a little piece of heaven %left on earth for you and I Subject(s): Cowboys GRANDMOTHER'S FRENCH HOLLYHOCKS, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They were probably planted there by the gate Last Line: Fifty years later, I'm beginning to see %the value of grandmother's beautiful flowers Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GREASIN' THE MILES, by NICK JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: When night comes slippin' up the valley Subject(s): Cowboys GREATER LOVE, by J. B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The night guard's voice resembles Last Line: In the moonlight's magaic beams Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) GREENOUGH GIRLS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Nineteen twenty-eight %billings, montana Last Line: To live up to %those greenough girls Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) GREY'S RIVER ROUNDUP, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There's wonderful things in this world to do Subject(s): Cowboys GRISLY TALE, OR THE BELOW ZERO HERO, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: It was in the winter of '89 Last Line: Old grizzly died of water on the brain Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) GROCERY LIST, by BILL LARSEN Poem Source First Line: Well babe, I need some groceries Last Line: And I'm lookin' forward to the day%that I'll get to town to pay the bill! Subject(s): Cowboys HAILSTORM, by JR. COLEN H. SWEETEN Poem Source First Line: I remember the deafening roar Last Line: And find courage born of faith %not of understanding Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HALF-BREED, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fathers with eyes of ancient ire Last Line: And a woman with soft white hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys HANCOCK COMPLIMENTS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: He could have said you're sweet as pie Last Line: Big in the hind end, and mostgly ugly %in the head Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) HARD MOVE, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: They had heard the news, and it was bad Last Line: Sometimes it's hard to tell a part of life, %and love, & 'goodbye' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HARM AND JIM, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Harm and jim had neighbored Last Line: That we all ate tonight Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) HAT ETIQUETTE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: There are rules of decorum and conduct Last Line: And never remove them sombreros. %all those in favor say, 'aye.' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HAVE YOU AN EYE, by EDWIN FORD PIPER Poem Text First Line: Have you an eye for the trails, the trails Last Line: Was never trimmed for shoe? Subject(s): Cowboys HAWSE WORK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! There's the wild bunch to right of the trail Last Line: Give me a day on the hawse work! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION PIE-EATIN' COWBOY OF THE WEST, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: I just ate 50 pies - started off with coconut Last Line: Just surprise me with something new, sweetie %pie - like tangerine boomerang gooseberry! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HIGH-STEPPIN' KIND, by SUNNY HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: I was born in the depression back when times was kinds bad Last Line: But I never told 'em, 'yeah, I like that old high-steppin' kind.' Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) HIRED GUNS, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: All night long they lay Last Line: The hay - for cattle Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HIRED HAND, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: You know, some men just look like a cowboy Last Line: Ev'ry word that he told me was true Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) HOME ON THE RANGE, by BREWSTER HIGLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, give me a home on the range where the buffalo roam Last Line: I would not exchange my home here to range %forever is azures so bright Subject(s): Cowboys HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses I own / no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses, I own %no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSES, CATTLE AND MEN, by BOB PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Of horses, cattle, and men Last Line: These few, you see, %from the life of %horses, cattle, and men Subject(s): Cowboys HOW MANY COWS?, by NYLE A. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: A fella from town stopped by the other day Subject(s): Cowboys HOW THE LORD TROWED-IN WITH MOM TO MAKE ME QUIT THE BRONCS, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Was my mother sayin' rosaries day and night Last Line: And you know, I'll be go-to-hell %if everyone ain't up and quit, but me! Subject(s): Cowboys I DEPENDED ON MY PARDNER, by JIM SHELTON Poem Source First Line: I've had some damn bad predicaments Last Line: In a pinch, you're always there Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) I TRIED, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Seven barely-yearlin' bulls Last Line: Finally one said, 'damn good horse.' Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill" Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States I'LL BE GO TO HELL, by DAN BRADSHAW Poem Source First Line: The man was old an' tired Last Line: Til I'll be go to hell Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) I'M TEACHING SCHOOL, NOT DEAD, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Some well-intentioned people ask Last Line: But I'm real careful about using the word never Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) IF, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: If I hadn't become a cowboy's wife Last Line: If I'd stayed and lived down under %and not become a cowboy's wife Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life IN THE HILLS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow crawls up canyon walls; the Last Line: Somewhere the loud streets thunder, and one time there was a war. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Canyons; Cowboys; Disasters; Hunger; Smoke; Soldiers; War JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave" Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States JACK POTTER'S COURTIN', by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Source First Line: Now young jack potter was a man Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Cowboys JEFF HART, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jeff hart rode out of the gulch to war Last Line: Next morning the world came in. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Belgium; Cowboys; War JOHN WAYNE, GUNSLINGER, R.I.P., by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: John wayne, gunslinger, pranced out Last Line: Of our hero-gunslinger, john wayne Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Hero And Leander; Wayne, John (1907-1979); West (u.s.) JOKER'S PAY, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: If you can make a week-old prolapse seem Last Line: And take the laughter for your pay %because right now, tears are cheap Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life JUST A-RIDIN'!, by ELWOOD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, for me a horse and saddle Last Line: And a snowdrift in your hair. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States JUST AN OLD YELLA COW, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: I was called to vist with my banker-- Last Line: Would you cut back that yella cow Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) JUST PAST THE TOE OF YOUR BOOT, by TOM SHARPE Poem Source Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) KATE FROM THE WEST, by EVELYN MAY Poem Text First Line: She was just a girl from way out west Last Line: The boys for her were sure to wait. Subject(s): Cowboys; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States KID SOLOS, by BOB SCHILD Poem Source First Line: Me, the kid, and some other boys was playin'. Subject(s): Cowboys KING OF THE WORLD, by KEITH AVERY Poem Source First Line: The discussion proceeds %on just where one stands Last Line: While you're king of the cowboys %I'm king of the world Subject(s): Cowboys LASCA, by FRANK DESPREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want free life, and I want fresh air Last Line: In texas, down by the rio grande. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States LAST BUCKAROO, by DICK GIBFORD Poem Source First Line: By morning star and quarter moon Subject(s): Cowboys LAST COWBOY, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Source First Line: Down through a valley that yucca clouded Subject(s): Cowboys LAST OF A BREED, by J. W. BEESON Poem Source First Line: As the sounds of the morning come dancin' Last Line: A hero in legend and deed-- %he's one of the last of a breed Subject(s): Cowboys LATIGO TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I settled this section together Last Line: Dreams of the glorious youth that we had! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Youth LEASE HOUND, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: A sharpie in a leisure suit Subject(s): Cowboys LEGACY OF THE RODEO MAN, by BAXTER BLACK Poem Source First Line: There's a hundred years of history and a hundred before that Last Line: It's guts and love and glory - one mortal's chance at fame %his legacy is rodeo and cowboy is his na Subject(s): Cowboys; Rodeos LIKE IT OR NOT, by BILL SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Me and the boys Subject(s): Cowboys LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Cowboys get up before dawn Last Line: A day they now claim is half gone Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cowboy hat's made with great pains Last Line: And a crown that's too big for his brains Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Though little in life is for sure Last Line: And a steady supply of manure Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: For riding way out on the prairie Last Line: That your profile will show - so don't tarry Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LISTEN TO THE SUN GO DOWN, by LEON FLICK Poem Source First Line: Upon a warm september's eve Last Line: And listen to the sun go down Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LITTLE THINGS, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: I've laid for hours upon my back Last Line: And keep sorta confidential %little things that's in your heart Subject(s): Cowboys LLANO VAQUEROS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Padilla unloads mangy herd of mexican Subject(s): Cowboys; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity LONESOME, by TOM SHARPE Poem Source First Line: Listen to the breeze go slipping through the trees Last Line: But for now, I guess, I'll totter off to bed Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) LOVE LETTERS, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Wow! Was written in the dust %on the bedside table. Last Line: I would give a year of my life %for that... % wow! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LOVE LYRICS OF A COWBOY, by ROBERT V. CARR Poem Text First Line: It hain't no use fer me to say Last Line: "dog-gone a clock!"" is what I say." Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States LOVER, FIGHTER, WILD HORSE RIDER, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: Not too many years ago, when the west was wild and free Last Line: The first coat's almost dry Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) LUCK OF THE DRAW, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: There were a thousand Last Line: In the lead %invincible Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LYLE AND HAWKEYE, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: After preg-testing %while the crew %puts the heifers back Last Line: On a smooth and rockless %hillside %took lyle %all afternoon Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MAN SHOEING A HORSE AND HIS LITTLE GIRL, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: He whirled those blue eyes on me Last Line: I could pull on and wear %spoke Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MAN'S BEST FRIEND, by ROSS KNOX Poem Source First Line: Folks talk about a dog bein' a man's best friend Last Line: The best damn cowdog I ever saw %stayed home Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MATCHING GREEN RIBBON, by JIM HOFER Poem Source First Line: She drove a green and white mack Subject(s): Cowboys MATRIMONY, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: The rancher's son had lost his heart Last Line: When she's tired...Or she's rested Subject(s): Cowboys; Marriage; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) MCCORKLE AND THE WIRE, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: Mccorkle rode into the whiskey flat camp Last Line: And his hair's turned as white as the snow Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MEDICINE KEEPERS, by J. B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: A man might live and work beside Last Line: To write a livin' history %of the stock, and earth, and men. Variant Title(s): The 'medicine' Keeper Subject(s): Cowboys MESSAGE IN THE WIND, by JESSE SMITH Poem Source First Line: As you set and look from the ridge Last Line: He sent to yer hoss on the wind Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MINOR ADDICTION, by KENT STOCKTON Poem Source First Line: I crawled from my sougans an' reached for the pack Last Line: After smokin' his last cigarette Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MIXED FEELINGS, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: We were rimmin' around one summer mornin' Last Line: But when he got on the truck...I cried Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MOONSHINE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: You've heard of kessler's blended whiskey Last Line: Ballroom stars - reg, grinning, %waltzing close, holding gently on to moonshine's golden mane Subject(s): Cowboys MOTHER LOVE, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Ah, these--these my precious Last Line: What women! What men! %you will be Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MY ENEMY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All mornin' in the mesa's glare Last Line: My enemy! My enemy!! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes; Enemies; Wilderness MY HAMLEY, by KENT STOCKTON Poem Source First Line: There's some mighty nice saddles that's built nowadays Last Line: Quite a bit better than me Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) MY OL' STETSON, by OWEN BARTON Poem Source First Line: When you look upon this ol' stetson hat Subject(s): Cowboys NEW HAND, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: He gets all the spoiled horses Last Line: That cowboy, he's one of ours Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life NEW KID IS OUTFITTED, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: They decked him down with boots and leggings Last Line: He thirsted out of broken legs Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life NO IMPOSTER, by DUANE REECE Poem Source First Line: She was coming three, her hide was slick Subject(s): Cowboys NOT A MAN'S PROBLEM, by CAROLE JARVIS Poem Source First Line: When I was younger, and a little more agile Last Line: On learnin' to hold it...All day Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) NOTES FOR A NOVEL, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: I cannot sleep. All time is passing Last Line: His barren places now are watered bright, %and he's a varry,parfit, gentile knight Subject(s): Cowboys ODE TO THE CALF CRADLE, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: Modern day ranches are doohickeyed up Last Line: With a case of incurable scours Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) OL' COOKY, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Now, ol' cooky was some ugly Last Line: He lived his life in one old shirt %but he met his maker clean Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OL' EDGAR MARTIN, by CARLOS ASHLEY Poem Source First Line: I seen ol' edgar martin a-ridin' by jus now Subject(s): Cowboys OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come along, boys, and listen to my tale Subject(s): Chisholm Trail; Cowboys OLD COWBOY'S PRAYER, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: I never thought too much about heaven, lord Last Line: And watch you light the first faint evenin' star %with twilight comin' fast across the plain Subject(s): Cowboys OLD COWMAN, by DICK GIBFORD Poem Source First Line: There's many types and sizes Subject(s): Cowboys OLD HANDS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: It's good to set and listen Last Line: We done come things the way we did %'cause we just didn't know no better Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OLD HORSE, by DON IAN SMITH Poem Source First Line: Old faithful horse, I find you by the creek Last Line: Once more out in the pastures of the sky %where grass is always green and bluebirds fly Subject(s): Cowboys OLD MAN, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: The sun was breakin' easy Last Line: Then go check on little katie Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) OLD PAINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leavin' cheyenne" Last Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leaving cheyenne" Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OLD TUFF, by GEORGIE SICKING Poem Source Subject(s): Cowboys ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains ON CHECKING THE COWS SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1993, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: I'm not so angry now Last Line: Prolapsed and drowning %left us something Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ON THE DRIVE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, days whoop by with swingin' lope Last Line: And leave us rest and water. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Horseback Riding ON THE OREGON TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the prairie pilgrim crew Last Line: Flag that leads the white man 'round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cowboys; Oregon; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prairies; Plains ONE MAN'S HANDS, by MAGGIE MAE SHARP Poem Source First Line: My anger rose high at his last words Last Line: For only...One man's hands Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ONE MORE LICK, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: When g. L. Said he wouldn't buck, I figured he would know Last Line: Just one more lick, this cowboy's got 'er made Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ONE MORE SHIPPING DAY, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: The crew has all been mustered, from around the neighborhood Last Line: We're mounting up, for one more shipping day Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ONE RED ROSE, by ERNIE FANNING Poem Source First Line: I went into town one night Subject(s): Cowboys ONE SERAPHIC RIDE, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: As dark was spreading on the air Last Line: I say we vote her four to none %the roan ends up in heaven.' Subject(s): Cowboys OPEN RANGE, by MELVIN L. WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: I was born in utah, many long years Subject(s): Cowboys OTHERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daybreak comes so pure and still Last Line: Some other country free. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Freedom; War; Liberty OUR LITTLE COWGIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thar she goes a-lopin,' stranger" Subject(s): Cowboys;girls;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OUR RANGE, by ERIC SPRADO Poem Source First Line: The beauty, the beauty, my pen can't quite share Last Line: But we both belong on this %our range Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger Last Line: That's where the west begins. Subject(s): Cowboys; Patriotism; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States OUTRIDERS AT THE END OF THE TRAIL, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They contemplate their town-boot toes Last Line: You'll hear no keening to the vaulted skies, %but the good hands know when a good hand dies Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PAPERS SAY, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: The papers say our old cow deal's %in touble again Last Line: We'll run cattle just for spite Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) PARDNERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun Last Line: You ugly ol' scoundrel, you! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PARDS, by HUGH J. HUGHES Poem Source First Line: So - goodby! The dreamy splendor of the mornings Subject(s): Cowboys PASSING THE MANTLE, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: How small he was Last Line: And look to my son %for his approval Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PASSION DRINKER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: When he was young, he broke horses Last Line: The passion drinker thinks he's seen it all, %but the dead say only the earth endures Subject(s): Cowboys; Family Life; History PISTOL, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: It's a still and quiet twilight Last Line: He says, damn those old-timers! %why couldn't they pick up this crap? Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PLAINS BORN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward from the greener places Last Line: Round the blue rim of the known! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains PLATE 134. BY EAKINS. 'A COWBOY IN THE WEST ...', by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His hat, his gun, his gloves, his chair, his place Last Line: Heartbreaking canteen, empty on the ground Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cowboys; Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); Photography & Photographers PLATE 134. BY EAKINS. 'A COWBOY IN THE WEST ...', by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His hat, his gun, his gloves, his chair, his place Last Line: Heartbreaking canteen, empty on the ground Subject(s): Art And Artists; Cowboys; Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); Photography And Photographers PLAYING WITH FOXY'S NOSE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: I have a bay cutting filly Last Line: Each breating in contentment %while we're playing with foxy's nose Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life POETS GATHERING, 1985, by CHARLES A. KORTES Poem Source First Line: When the cowboy poets gathered Subject(s): Cowboys PRIZE POSSESSION, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: What's the last thing you would part with? Last Line: But just straighten up, take out the tube %and add a little wax Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PROGRESS (DEWEY'S BRANDIN'), by RAY FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: My neighbor called me up one night Last Line: And shipped the best cows he ever had Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) QUALITY TIME, by TOM MCBETH Poem Source First Line: Last spring we gathered the calves and the cows Last Line: We need to teach them that there's more to livin', %that quality time is just quality givin' Subject(s): Cowboys RAIN ON THE RANGE, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Source First Line: When your boots are full of water Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Cowboys RANCHERS' REVENGE, by BOB CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: We'd worked all day a-branding calves Last Line: If that steer did to washington %what washington done to us Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life RANGE COW IN WINTER, by VERN MORTENSEN Poem Source Subject(s): Cowboys RARE FIND, by RANDALL J. RIEMAN Poem Source First Line: It's a wonderful thing Last Line: And the feelin' that's there %is more lasting and precious than gold Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life REAL WEALTH, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: My neighbors don't live close to me Last Line: But damn sure makes me wealthy Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) REINCARNATION, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: What does reincarnation mean?' Last Line: I come away concludin': slim, %you ain't changed, all that much Subject(s): Cowboys; Reincarnation REMINISCIN', by RAY FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: When we get to reminiscin' Last Line: Too old to turn a cow Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) RETIREMENT OF ASHTOLA, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: When a day's work is done in the limits of town Last Line: When ashtola was workin' the herd Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) RIDERS OF THE STARS, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty abreast down the golden street ten thousand Last Line: And a viewless rider swept the sky on the trail of a shooting star? Subject(s): Cowboys; Heaven; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Paradise; Southwest; Pacific States RIDIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is some that like the city Last Line: And a-ridin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys RIDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us ride together Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horseback Riding;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States RIDING SONG, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: I sit my horse Last Line: And only the hills are forever Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Ranch Life ROUNDUP, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was a bride of just three weeks Last Line: That a roundup's no place for a greenhorn bride %you know - I've never returned Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ROUNDUP AT THE BAR B BAR, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: Every year about this time Last Line: And I sold them cows last year Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) RUSTY, JOHN, AND BROWN, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: We needed some help at the ranch Last Line: Or better yet, just send your dogs-- %rusty, john, and brown Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) SADDLE TRAMP, by BUCK WILKERSON Poem Source First Line: Trail dust settled behind him Subject(s): Cowboys SADDLIN'-UP TIME, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: I never looked forward to the end of the day Last Line: Riding drag for the devil to pay for my crimes, %but I'm damned if I'll go 'fore saddlin'-up time Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SALMON RIVER BREAKS, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There are days of sun and sand and stone Last Line: And on a sunny day you can lay me away %where the eagle and osprey come to pray %in the salmon river Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SALOONS, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: I've been known to spend time in barrooms Last Line: Cuz that old bar gal's face just can't be replaced %by the back end of these danged old cows Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SAN ANTONIO, REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Cowboys are %in san antonio Last Line: It is still a penetrable alamo. %the miniature model inside:%thousands of little dead %soldiers Subject(s): Cowboys; Mexican American Families; San Antonio, Texas SATURDAY NIGHT, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the ranch on a saturday night Last Line: If every night I was ridin' your way. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Travel; Journeys; Trips SATURDAY NIGHT IN WOODY, by JESSIE SMITH Poem Source First Line: It was late afternoon in the woody saloon Subject(s): Cowboys SEEKING THE OLD ONES, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Fascinated by our devices Last Line: And try harder to remember %what it was the old ones said Subject(s): Cowboys SHANK OF THE EVENIN', by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: That new batch of heifers we got in today Last Line: No, thank you, I'll tough this one through Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) SHORTHORN, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: Rupert walpole, late of london Last Line: It measured about six by three %in boot hill desert sand Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SHORTY, by JIM SHELTON Poem Source First Line: Oh, the man was sure my pardner Last Line: Ask the lord to 'let him go.' Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) SIERRY PETES, by GAIL GARDNER Poem Source First Line: Away up high in the sierry petes Subject(s): Cowboys SILVER JACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was on the drive in eighty Subject(s): Cowboys SNAGTOOTH SAL, by LOWELL OTUS REESE Poem Text First Line: I was young and happy and my heart was light Last Line: Walkin' down through laramie with snagtooth sal. Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States SNUFFY AND SODIE AND THE COWBOY CODE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Now I ain't scared a'grizzly bears,' Last Line: I'll speak soft words, but pardner, %yore damn sure gonna die! Subject(s): Cowboys SO LONG, by ROSS KNOX Poem Source First Line: Well I was traveling through the country Subject(s): Cowboys SOLD OUT, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: The worst will come tomorrow Last Line: Leabing on the weathered poles %while shadows consume the pasture Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SOLD YOUR SADDLE, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Not so terribly well, I said, in answer to his question Last Line: I'm not sayin' you sold your saddle, but you've put it up for sale Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States SONG: HOME ON THE RANGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, give me a home" Last Line: And this brings the cream to the top Subject(s): Cowboys SOUTHWESTERN JUNE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lazy little hawse, it's noon Last Line: For we're young yet, and it's june! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States SPIDER, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: Old spider was a big brown horse Last Line: But worse to have to ride him Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) SPRING, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: A gentle agony Subject(s): Cowboys STARLIGHT OF THE TRAIL, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Packing in the primitive Last Line: To find our dark way home Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STEADY MARKET, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Not long ago I drifted in and stopped to drink some coffee Last Line: To buy a pickup that was new...In nineteen sixty-five Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) STORE CANDY, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Don't go,' she said, 'we'll do with what we have.' Last Line: And all the bright store candy scattered round Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Women - Writers STORM FRONT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The colt noses the water Last Line: The braided hair rope, my macate, %is rough and stiffens in my hands Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STORY WITH A MORAL, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Now I know there's things worse that make cowpunchers curse Last Line: And the moral, I think, is if you must take a drink %never, ever remount and ride upstream Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STRAWBERRY ROAN, by CURLEY FLETCHER Poem Source First Line: I'm a layin' around, just spendin' muh time Subject(s): Cowboys STREETS OF LAREDO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I walked out in the streets of laredo Last Line: We all loved our comrade although he had done wrong Subject(s): Cowboys SUNDOWN IN THE COW CAMP, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: The hoodie's washed the dishes Last Line: But that old cow's stopped her bawlin' %so I guess she's found her calf Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SUSIE'S DREAM, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: When susie was just a little girl Last Line: She'd already lost the battle Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) TAIL THAT'S LIGHT, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Goin' on fresh snow Last Line: My song, I'm singin' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TAKERS, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: The government took all his horses Last Line: That you heroically shot him down laughing %and how he's at last traveled home Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THANKS FOR THE RAIN, by CAROLE JARVIS Poem Source First Line: I turned my eyes toward cloudless skies so often, lord Last Line: I had to tell you, lord, thanks for the rain Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) THAT HARLOT SKY, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: At best, you'll be %his wife...But he Last Line: His mistress,, free %and cowboy's life...The wife Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) THE BAD LANDS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fresh green things in the bad lands bide Last Line: The song of a million years. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Earth; Landmark Preservation; Prairies; World; Plains THE BANDIT'S GRAVE, by CHARLES PITT Poem Text First Line: Mid lava rock and glaring sand Last Line: O'er the border bandit's tomb. Subject(s): Bandits; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Graves; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Tombs; Tombstones; Southwest; Pacific States THE BLIZZARD, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fiddler was improvising Last Line: "the river will reach the sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Cowboys THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've busted bronchos off and on Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE BUFFALO TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deeply the buffalo trod it Last Line: Over the green or the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Paths; Trails THE BULL FIGHT, by L. WORTHINGTON GREEN Poem Text First Line: The couriers from chihuahua go Last Line: And juan takes his pepita back from the town. Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Bulls; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE BUNK-HOUSE ORCHESTRA, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out Last Line: "when we have an hour of firelight set to ""turkey in the straw." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID Poem Text First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies! Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy! Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States THE CAMP FIRE'S SONG, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reared your fathers long ago Last Line: A puzzled child within your eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys THE CATTLE ROUND-UP, by H. D. C. MCLACLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Once more are we met for a season of pleasure Last Line: When we danced the day in at the cattlemen's ball. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CHASE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here's a moccasin track in the drifts Last Line: "why, the darling! She's waiting to see" Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE CHRISTMAS TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is blowin' cold down the mountain / tips of snow Last Line: I'm a-ridin' up the christmas trail to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: It was on the western frontier Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States THE COW-BOY'S SONG, by ANNA MARIA WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mooly cow, mooly cow, home from the wood Last Line: "the mooly cow only said, ""moo-o-o!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wells, A. M. Subject(s): Cowboys; Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE COWBOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He wears a big hat and big spurs and all that Last Line: "like your dudes, who are so melancholy" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY, by JOHN ANTROBUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What care I, what cares he Last Line: And he laughs, ha, ha! --who cares! Who cares! Subject(s): Cowboys THE COWBOY, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People, like cattle Last Line: To his corral. Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Dead, The THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Funny how it come about! Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED, by BURKE JENKINS Poem Text First Line: You're very well polished, I'm free to confess Last Line: You forty-five caliber colt! Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY'S DANCE SONG, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now you can't expect a cowboy to agitate Last Line: When I put the cowboy trimmings on that high-toned dance. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last night as I lay on the prairie Last Line: Have your name in the great tally book Subject(s): Cowboys;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I walked out in the streets of laredo Last Line: We all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong Subject(s): Cowboys THE COWBOY'S SOLILOQUY, by ALLEN MCCANLESS Poem Text First Line: All day o'er the prairie alone I ride Last Line: "heard the message from heaven of ""peace and good will." Subject(s): Cowboys THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, moll, now don't you 'llow to quite Last Line: The [valentine symbol] m-I-n-e. Subject(s): Cowboys; Holidays; Ranch Life; Valentine's Day; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' BALL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Tunin' up the fiddle Last Line: But this beats dancin' at the cowboys' ball. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Way out in western texas where the clear fork waters flow Last Line: "that lively-gaited sworray — ""the cowboys' christmas ball." Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Christmas; Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Nativity, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by LARRY CHITTENDON Poem Text First Line: Way out in western texas, where the clear fork's waters flows Last Line: Huh, it was gettin' active, at the cowboy's christmas ball. Subject(s): Cowboys THE COYOTE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trailing the last gleam after Last Line: Voice of the western night! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle? Last Line: And danced his dance tonight. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DEAD BRONCHO-BUSTER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ride him, cowboy, ride him!' Last Line: And ride it among the stars! Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Rodeos THE DEPUTY, by KENNETH CARLYLE KAUFMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave him here at the canyon's head Last Line: With the grass waving round him. Subject(s): Cowboys; Police; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead. Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DISAPPOINTED TENDERFOOT, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He reached the west in a palace car where the writers Last Line: "done." Subject(s): Cowboys; Disappointment; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DRUNKEN DESPERADO, by BAIRD BOYD Poem Text First Line: I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas Last Line: When it's my night to hollow — whoo-pee! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Southwest; Pacific States THE DYING COWBOY (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh bury me not on the lone prairie' Last Line: Oh bury me not on the lone prairie Subject(s): Cowboys THE END OF THE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "soh, bossie, soh!" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States THE FIGHTING SWING, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again the regiments marching down the street Last Line: Blood, dust, grapple and thrust—back to the fighting swing! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Blood; Cowboys; Fights; Soldiers; War THE FOREST RANGERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red is the arch of the nightmare sky Last Line: Fight! For it is not ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Forests; Ranch Life; Woods THE FREE WIND, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went and worked in a drippin' mine Last Line: And my hawse and me was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE, by LOUIS FREELAND POST Poem Text First Line: The lingering sunset across the plain Last Line: They were off, down the gila monster route. Alternate Author Name(s): Post, L. F. Subject(s): Cowboys; Railroads; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Southwest; Pacific States THE GLORY TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up the mogollons Last Line: "I'll never turn him loose!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): High Chin Bob Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown Last Line: For, once you git the habit, why, you can't keep still. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Millarkey purchased a gramaphone Last Line: At a dollar down and a dollar-a-week. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HELL-BOUND TRAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor Last Line: For he never rode the hell-bound train Subject(s): Cowboys;railroads; Railways;trains THE HOMESICK COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired and sick of the city Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Homesickness THE INSULT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've swum the colorado where she runs close down Subject(s): Cowboys;drinks & Drinking;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At a roundup on the gily Last Line: "huh! Are you the great grandchildren of the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Americans; Cowboys; Ranch Life; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States THE LOCOED HORSE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was ridin' all alone Last Line: To eat some sort of loco weed. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding THE LONG TRAIL: THE RANGE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Or the dull gaze lifts Last Line: To warmer crests with their glimpse of sea. Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE LOST PARDNER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ride alone and hate the boys I meet Last Line: That he ain't here no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding THE MARRIED MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's an old pard of mine that sits by his door Last Line: When I'm tired from the wind and the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Family Life; Relatives THE MEDICINE MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trail is long to the bison herd Last Line: But none dared touch the medicine man. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys THE MOVIE PICTURE COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cowboy game is busted 'cuz the cattle biz dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Cowboys; Movies; Cinema THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OL' COW HAWSE, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it comes to saddle hawses, there's a difference Last Line: Hawse! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD CAMP COFFEE-POT (WRITTEN FOR EBEN W. MARTIN), by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old camp-mate, black and rough to see Last Line: From your black throat, old coffee-pot. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Camping; Cowboys; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come along boys, and listen to my tale" Last Line: I'll quit punchin' cows in the sweet by an' by Subject(s): Chisholm Trail;cowboys THE OLD COW MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rode across a valley range Last Line: No later than I was! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Aging; Cowboys; Fences; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL, by JOHN AVERY LOMAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD PROSPECTOR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a song in the canyon below me Last Line: I'll follow the trail that I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prospecting; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old Last Line: That he kaint quite break is himse'f. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE PASSING OF THE TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a sunny, savage land Last Line: Far riding down the years! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Paths; Trails THE PIANO AT RED'S, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a hole called red's saloon Last Line: Back in red's saloon! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cowboys; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE PLAINSMEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the older, gentler soil Last Line: The way we have loved you, young, young land. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains THE ROAD TO RUIN', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I went into the grog-shop, tom, and stood beside" Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States THE SONG OF THE LEATHER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my trail stretches out to the edge of the sky Last Line: "go to sleep, pardner mine, go to sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses THE SPRINGTIME PLAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of me, are you hearing Last Line: And the waiting eyes of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Prairies; Plains THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I think we can all remember when a greaser hadn't Subject(s): Cowboys;honor;racism;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Racial Prejudice;bigotry;southwest;pacific States THE TIED MAVERICK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay on the iron! The tie holds fast Last Line: And brand me hers forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys THE TRAIL O' LOVE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love was swift and slender Last Line: "where ""forever"" lasts a mile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Love THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil? Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States THE VIGILANTES, by MARGARET ELIZA ASHMUN Poem Text First Line: We are the whirlwinds that winnow the west Last Line: We are justice, and right, and the law! Subject(s): Cowboys; Justice; Ranch Life; Vigilantes; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE WESTERNER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fathers sleep on the sunrise plains Last Line: And the world is mine to win. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE YELLOW STUFF, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the rim rocks on the hill Last Line: Without a lick of mining! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys THERE'S SOMETHIN' THAT A COWBOY KNOWS., by DARRELL ARNOLD Poem Source Last Line: That draws him to the soul-fulfilling %freedom of the plain Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THINGS OF INTRINSIC WORTH, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Remember that sandrock on emmells crick Last Line: And nobody knows...Or nobody cares... %about things of intrinsic worth. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THREE-WHEELER, by JESSE SMITH Poem Source First Line: I've ridden lots of old spoiled horses Last Line: Was shore one big mistake Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) THROW-BACK, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Twas at the end of the nineteenth century Subject(s): Cowboys TIL I DEPART, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Few men feel these hillsides breathe Last Line: I'll keep on rhymin' til I depart Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TILLY, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He travels after a winter sun Last Line: I dream by the black stream for my toren bough Subject(s): Cowboys TIME TO STAY, A TIME TO GO, by BAXTER BLACK Poem Source First Line: Ya know, I got this ranch from my daddy Subject(s): Cowboys TIN CUP, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: Good wine should slip Last Line: Just throw the hell away Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TO A COWBOY'S GRANDSON, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: A late spring blizzard Last Line: We'll ride to the black wolf %dry willow and arikaree Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TO AN OLD FRIEND, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: I stood by the fountain as they brought him in Last Line: I'll leave a good horse on this side' Subject(s): Cowboys TO BE A TOP HAND, by GEORGIE SICKING Poem Source First Line: When I was a kid and doing my best to Subject(s): Cowboys TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was just about to take a drink Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;talk;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States TO HER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cut loose a hundred rivers Last Line: Go clean-hearted to her! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Roads; Togetherness; Paths; Trails TO WALLACE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: I'm not applauding cathouse towns in idaho, Last Line: Like ol' casey on a bronc, wallace, reppin' for the legendary, keeps the old west young. Subject(s): Cowboys; Poetry And Poets; Ranch Life TOP HAND, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: I've rode the high side Last Line: Where men hit life hard %and gotta be top hand Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TOP HAND, by KENT STOCKTON Poem Source First Line: The west has spawned some punchers Last Line: Is the one don't raise no dust Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) TOUCH, by TOM MCBETH Poem Source First Line: Since back when he was just a sprout Last Line: When the horses nudged him to get up %at a quarter after five Subject(s): Cowboys TREASURE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: When I cowboyed for the old zr Last Line: The old ways are the best ways %bulls were meant to drive, not lead! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TRIBUTE TO FRECKLES AND TORNADO, by JON BOWERMAN Poem Source First Line: There's a lot of tales in history about the west Subject(s): Cowboys; Tornadoes TROUBLE WITH DREAMS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: She followed me to ranches Last Line: Talk about cows, fill the ashtrays, %and track mud on her kitchen floor Subject(s): Cowboys TRUE INJUSTICE, by MAGGIE MAE SHARP Poem Source First Line: There are so many things I've come to love Last Line: If I have kissed my dog Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) TWO OF A KIND, by BOB SCHILD Poem Source First Line: The town was aflutter on rodeo week Subject(s): Cowboys TWO THINGS IN LIFE THAT I REALLY LOVE, by GARY MCMAHAN Poem Source First Line: There's two things in life %that I really love Last Line: I may rest %between the two things %that I love best Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life UNCLE, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: He sips coffeee Last Line: Had hot tempers, and did %their own law-making Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life VANISHED VALLEY, by ERNIE FANNING Poem Source First Line: Out on a nevada mountain Subject(s): Cowboys VAQUERO, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His broad-brimmed hat pushed back with careless air Last Line: His tongue in rage and rolled his red eyes in disgust. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Cowboys VAQUERO, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: At sunup the roundup Subject(s): Cowboys VET, by DAN BRADSHAW Poem Source First Line: I've alwauys had a question Last Line: Darn near anything fer pay Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) VIGIL OF 559, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: One solitary black baldy Last Line: I, too, mama cow, stand helpless %in the emptiness %of death Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) VOICES IN THE NIGHT, by MELVIN L. WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: I've heard strange tales of haunted trails Subject(s): Cowboys; Superstition WAIT 'TIL YOU BECOME A MAN, by ERIC SPRADO Poem Source First Line: I remember seeing men Last Line: Maybe I've become a man Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WAITIN' ON THE DRIVE, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: It's four o'clock when the cook's bell calls Last Line: And I thank god that he made this feller that's me, %as I sit and wait on the drive Subject(s): Cowboys WANDERLUST, by J. B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I was checkin' the mares Last Line: On the looks of the neighbor's blue mare Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) WAR HORSE, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: In my dreams I ride war horses Last Line: And I ride that horse %when I go to war Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) WEATHER, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: There's something about a cool october mornin' Last Line: There's no place I'd trade for this ranch Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHAT??!!, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: The honeymoon was in full swing Last Line: And he sure is special to me Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That time when bob got throwed Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHEN BULLS FIGHT NEAR THE FENCE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: When bulls fight near the fence, of course Last Line: Those bulls fighting near the fence Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) WHEN I WAS A COWBOY, by ARTHUR A. FLAKOLL Poem Text First Line: When I was a cowboy I rode a horse that was wild as a storm Last Line: —arthur a. Flakoll, aberdeen Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cowboys; South Dakota WHEN YOU'RE THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If a feller's been a-straddle Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WHISKEY BILL: A FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-down the road and gun in hand Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The herds are gathered in from plain and hill Last Line: Twas loved ones' voices from far off across the seas Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;ranch Life;sound;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHOLE LOAD, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In a western town in the days of old Last Line: But I wouldn't feed her the whole durn load Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHY THE CHASE, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: That gauch-eyed cow %had left the herd Last Line: Responds just one-on-one Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) WIND SIDE OF MY HORSE, by BARBARA HALL Poem Source First Line: I've been following this slow-moving bunch Last Line: Bout my foot on the wind side of my horse Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) WOMAN OF THE LAND, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Her name won't be in history books Last Line: Her heart is where it wants to be - %this woman of the land Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WOOD JINGLER, by RAY FITZGERALD Poem Source First Line: The wagon was camped on a grassy flat Last Line: He'd drawed a cranky nurse Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) WORKING RANCH, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: We envy you,' said my city friends Last Line: Another day like this has been %and, hell - I'll give 'em this one Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life YELLOWSTONE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Millions of buffalo curried her flanks Last Line: She's a wild old girl, let her looks not deceive you...%but we love her in spite of it all Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life YOUNG COWBOY, by MIKE DAWSON Poem Source First Line: A cowboy young, a young cowboy Last Line: In search of their holy grail Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) YOUNG FELLERS, by R. O. MUNN Poem Source First Line: A buddy and I left home Subject(s): Cowboys ZACK TILMAN, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They say his dad was bone-deep mean Last Line: He finally found his enemy %and killed himself one night Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.) ZEBRA DUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We were camped on the plains Subject(s): Cowboys |
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