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We've indexed the books listed below to help readers find poetry by their favorite Cowboy Poets. Along with current popular Cowboy Poetry anthologies, there are many out-of-print and hard-to-find anthologies, and we hope to include more books in this index, which will be added to continually. Below you'll find the list of all books (and sometimes recordings) indexed and a comprehensive poet index with poem titles. There are links to the individual indexes for each book on separate pages that include poets' names and poem titles. We're starting to index periodicals as well, and will eventually incorporate those indexes in the index below. Currently, each periodical has its own page: Dry Crik Review, Boots, and From Texas to Montana. Our thanks to poet Gene O'Quinn for helping with this project with his indexing of so many of the books and publications.
As we add to this index, we welcome your suggestions for books to include, and your own compilations of such indexes from other books. Please email us with your comments.
On separate pages, we have:
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Books and Periodicals Indexed to date
Title abbreviations in parentheses are used in the poets' name index. Click the book title for the complete listing of the book's poems and poets.
Here's an alphabetical list of books and periodicals indexed, with more information below for each:
Between Earth and Sky : Poets of the Cowboy West
Boots (periodical, on a separate page)
Buckaroo, Visions and Voices of the American Cowboy
Cattle, Horses, Sky, and Grass, Cowboy Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century
Coolin' Down, An Anthology of Cowboy Poetry
Cowboy Love Poetry: Verse from the Heart of the West
Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream : Contemporary Cowboy Writing
Cowboys are Part Human: A Collection of Western Poems
Dry Crik Review (periodical, on a separate page)
From Texas to Montana (periodical, on a separate page)
Home on the Range, Cowboy Poetry
Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys, 1921 edition (separate page)
New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering
Riding the Northern Range: Poems from the Last Best-West
Coming.....
The Big Roundup
Missouri Cowboy Poetry
Prairie Poetry
Between Earth and Sky : Poets of the Cowboy West (BES)
edited by Anne Heath Widmark; photographs by Kent Reeves; foreword by Kim R. Stafford
W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1995Full index here.
There is an Amazon listing here and this book is available from SilverCreek Books & Music..
Boots
(periodical)
edited by Ethie Corrigan, Challis, Idaho 1990-95, all 10 issues
Full index here. (Periodical indexes are not yet incorporated into the master poet index.)
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled the poetry index for this periodical.
Copies are rare.
Buckaroo,
Visions and Voices of the American Cowboy (BVV) edited by Hal
Cannon and Thomas West, (William Matthews, creative director and
watercolor artist)
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
The book includes a CD with
additional selections. Poems on the CD are marked as such.
Full index here.
This book is out of print, but available from the Western Folklife Center and sometimes available from used book outlets.
Cattle,
Horses, Sky, and Grass, Cowboy Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century (CHSG)
edited by Warren Miller, illustrated by Joe Beeler
Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1994
Full index here.
This book is out of print.
Coolin' Down,
An Anthology of Cowboy Poetry (CD)
compiled by Phil Martin, illustrations by Keith Avery, Duward Campbell, and
Bob Peterson
Guy Logsdon Books, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1992
Full index here.
This book is out of print.
Cowboy Love Poetry:
Verse
from the Heart of the West (CLP)
edited by Paddy Calistro, Jack Lamb and
Jean Penn; foreword by Waddie Mitchell
Angel City Press, Santa Monica, CA 1994
Full index here.
Available from the publisher and from Amazon and other sources including SilverCreek Books & Music.
Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering (CPG)
edited and with an index by Hal Cannon
Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, UT, 1985
Full index here.
Available from the publisher and from Amazon and other sources including SilverCreek Books & Music.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Cowboy Poetry Classics CD (CPCD)
Compiled, produced, and annotated by David Stanley, Smithsonian Folkways
Recordings, 2003
Full index here.
Available from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Cowboy
Poetry from Utah, an Anthology (CPUT)
edited and compiled with essays and biographies by Carol A. Edison,
Illustrated by F. Euray Anderson, Utah Folklife Center, Salt Lake City, 1985
Full index here.
This book is out of print.
Cowboy
Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream : Contemporary Cowboy Writing
(CPM) edited by
Robert
McDowell, Story Line Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2002
Full index here.
Available from Amazon and other sources
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion (CPR)
edited by Virginia Bennett, Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah
2004 Cover art by Buckeye Blake, interior illustrations
by Walt LaRue, designed by Meghan Merker
Full index here.
See our feature about this book, which includes the introduction, here.
See our review of Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion here.
Available from the publisher and from Amazon and other sources
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Cowboys are Part Human: A
Collection of Western Poems (CPH)
edited by Ellen Schmidt & Dona Schreur Southwest Whispers, Safford, Arizona, 1998
Full index here.
Available from Amazon and other sources.
Cowgirl
Poetry, 100 Years of Ridin' and Rhymin (CGP)
edited by Virginia Bennett, Gibbs Smith
Publisher, Layton, Utah, 2001. Illustrations by Meghan Merker
Full index here.
See our feature about this book here.
This book is available from Amazon and from the publisher.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Dry
Crik Review (periodical)
edited by John Dofflemyer, Lemon Cove, California, 1991-1994, all 12 issues (3
of which were double issues)
Full index here. (Periodical indexes are not yet incorporated into the master poet index.)
Copies are sometimes available from used book dealers.
From
Texas to Montana (periodical)
edited by Jeff Streeby, Dallywelter Press,
Great Falls, Montana, 1995, 1996, and 1998, all 3 issues
Full index here. (Periodical indexes are not yet incorporated into the master poet index.)
Copies are sometimes available from used book dealers.
Graining
the Mare : The Poetry of Ranch Women (GM) by Teresa Jordan, editor and
photographer, 1994, Gibbs Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah; cover, "Blue Ball
Horses" by Donna Howell-Sickles
Full index here.
This book is out of print but there may be copies available through Amazon and the book may be available from the Western Folklife Center.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Full index here.
Available from Amazon and other sources.
Humorous
Cowboy Poetry, A Knee Slappin' Gathering (HCP), edited
by Dawn Valentine Hadlock and Madge Baird,
Gibbs Smith, Layton, Utah, 1995. Cover Art by Boots Reynolds
Full index here.
Available from the publisher and from Amazon and other sources including SilverCreek Books & Music.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Maverick Western Verse (MWV)
edited by John Dofflemyer, Gibbs Smith, Logan Utah, 1994.
Full index here.
This book is out of print, but often available at used book outlets.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
New Cowboy Poetry: A
Contemporary Gathering (NCPG)
edited and with an index by Hal Cannon, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City,
1990
Full index here.
Available from the publisher and from Amazon and other sources including SilverCreek Books & Music.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Riding
the Northern Range: Poems from the Last Best-West, (RNR)
edited by Ted Stone; Red Deer College
Press, Red Deer, Alberta, 1993
Full index here.
There is an Amazon listing here and this book is available from SilverCreek Books & Music.
Poet Gene O'Quinn compiled this book's index.
Ten
Years' Gatherings; Montana Poems and Stories, (MPS) edited by Gwen Petersen,
Sandy Seaton, Afton Bloxham, and Betty Lynne McCarthy; Ranch Country Publishing,
Big Timber, Montana, 1995
Full index here.
This book is out of print, but may be available through used book outlets.
Wyoming's Cowboy Poets and Their Poetry, (WCP) edited
by Jean Henry-Mead; Medallion Books, Evansville, Wyoming, 2004, with an
introduction by Gwen Peterson.
Full index here. See a review of this book here.
This book is available from the editor's web site and is also available by check or money order from Medallion Books, 8344 Shady Lane, Evansville, WY 82636 for $19.95 postpaid (paperback) or $27.45 postpaid (hardcover). Please add 5% sales tax if ordered within Wyoming.
Always more to come...
Poets and Poems Index / Comprehensive Index
Abbreviations in parentheses refer to the book that includes the individual poem. Click the abbreviation for the book's index.
Poets with work or featured at CowboyPoetry.com have hyperlinked names.
"Anonymous" poems are at the end of this list.
James Barton
Adams
"At a Cowboy Dance" (CLP)
"A Cowboy's Hopeless Love" (CLP)
"A Cowboy's Worrying Love" (CLP)
"The Transformation of a Texas Girl" (CLP)
"The Cowboy's Dance Song" (CPG)
"A Cowboy's Dance Song" recited by Glenn Ohrlin (CPCD)
Gerry
Allen
"By a Nose" (CPH)
J. B. Allen
"The Cook's Tale" (CD)
"The Final Score" (CD)
"The 'Medicine' Keepers" (CD)
"Alchemists" (CHSG)
"Bunkhouse Lawyer" (CHSG)
"Greater Love" (CHSG)
"Wanderlust" (CHSG)
"Matrimonial Martyrs" (CLP)
"Sparks" (CLP)
"Mementoes"
(BVV)
"New Trails" (BVV)
"Rites of Passage" (on the CD) (BVV)
"Sowers and Reapers" (BVV)
sings the traditional "I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup in the
Spring" on the CD (BVV)
"The
Medicine Keepers" (CPM)
"Nighthawk Notions" (CPM)
"Reasons for Stayin'" (CPM)
"Treasures" (CPM)
"Wisps" (CPM)
recites
"The Old Night Hawk" by Bruce Kiskaddon (CPCD)
Ray Anderson
"The Longhorn Exodus" (RNR)
Vic Anderson
"Ride Easy, Pard" (MPS)
Darrell
Arnold
"There's Somethin' That a Cowboy Knows" (NCPG)
"The Perfect
Tool" (CPR)
Linda Ash
"Bellerin' and Bawlin'" (CPG)
Carlos
Ashley
"Ol' Edgar Martin" (CPG)
"Epilogue"
recited by Baxter Black (CPCD)
"Bob Sears' Chili Joint" recited by Red Steagall (CPCD)
Mary Austin
"The Rhyme of the Pronghorns" (CGP)
Australie
"The Muster" (CGP)
Keith Avery
"Bronc Stompers Sage Wisdom" (CD)
"King of the World" (CD)
"King of the World" (HR)
Layle Bagley
"Pokey" (HCP)
Ron Bailey
"Abandoned Ranch"
(WCP)
David J.
Ball
"The Cowboy and the Genie" (HCP)
Dele Ball
"The Lone Post" (CGP)
Linda
Bark'karie
"Ridin'" (CGP)
Elizabeth
Bancroft
"Lawn Lessons" (MWV)
"Winter Solstice" (MWV)
S. Omar
Barker
"For the Love of Lily" (CLP)
"Jest Bring Me Back My Cowgirl Gal!" (CLP)
"Lonesome" (CLP)
"One Way of Proposin'" (CLP)
"Bear Ropin'
Buckaroo" (CPG)
"Jack Potter's Courtin'" (CPG)
"Rain on the Range" (HR)
"Cowpen Moo-Sic" (BVV)
"'Purt
Near!'" recited by Peggy Godfrey (CPCD)
"Rain on the Range" recited by Bill Wood (CPCD)
"Bear Ropin'
Buckaroo" (HCP)
"Buckaroo's Squelch" (HCP)
"Cowboy at College" (HCP)
"Judge Bean's Bear" (HCP)
"'Purt Near!'" (HCP)
"Thirsty Cowboy" (HCP)
Owen Barton
"Early Morning Roundup" (CPG)
"My Ol' Stetson" (CPG)
Sally Harper Bates
"Fears" (CHSG)
"That Harlot Sky" (CHSG)
"The Old Man" (CHSG)
"Why the Chase" (CHSG)
"Dry
Camps" (CGP)
"Generic Titles" (CGP)
"I Never Wanted to 'Mother Up'" (CGP)
"Oh~You~Cowboys" (CPR)
"Ride to the Cattle" (GM)
Sarah Bauer
"Figure Eights" (MPS)
"Laddie Meyers" (MPS)
"On the Anvil" (MPS)
Finley H. (Fin)
Bayles
"The Death of Juan Chacon" (NCPG)
"The Day Me
and Strawberry Fell" (CPUT)
"Outlaw Country" (CPUT)
"Sooner and the Serpent" (CPUT)
Jo Becksted
"The Cattleman's Prayer" (CGP)
J. W. Beeson
"The Bear Trap" (CD)
"The Last of a Breed" (CD)
"Rosie's Eagle" (CLP)
Don Bell
"Going to the Shawnee Rodeo" (CPG)
Pete
Bennett
"If We All Rode Horses Like the Ones We Used to Ride" (CPR)
Virginia Bennett
"You Probably Know This Guy" (HR)
"The
Lion" (CPM)
"Social Justice" (CPM)
"Such Control" (CPM)
"Tapestry of Knots" (CPM)
recites "The Smell of Rain" by Sharlot Hall (CPCD)
"All That is
Left" (CGP)
"El Fuego de Sonora" (CGP)
"The Hazards
of Braggin'" (HCP)
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" (HCP)
"Storms of the Divide" (HCP)
"Songs on the Nightwind" (CPR)
"For
Grampa" (GM)
"The Tough Goodbye" (GM)
C. J. Berkman
"In the Blood" (MWV)
Doris Bircham
"Riding the Wind" (HR)
"Foreclosure"
(RNR)
"He Tells It Like It Was" (RNR)
"On The Move" (RNR)
"Centennial
Quilting" (MWV)
"he tells it like it was" (MWV)
"Morning Prelude" (MWV)
"Transplanted" (MWV)
"After
the Funeral" (GM)
"Coffee Row" (GM)
"leaving" (GM)
"weaning time" (GM)
Baxter
Black
"Legacy of the Rodeo Man" (CD)
"The Big
High and Lonesome" (CPG)
"A Time to Stay, a Time to Go" (CPG)
recites "Epilogue" by Carlos Ashley (CPCD)
Afton
Bloxham
"Hayin'" (HR)
"Hayin'"
(RNR)
"The Last Rites" (RNR)
"The Settlers" (RNR)
"Spring Drive" (RNR)
"What Counts Most" (GM)
"Calving Time" (MPS)
"For Yesterday" (MPS)
"Noah and the First Roundup" (MPS)
Judy Blunt
"Josephine Hall" (GM)
"Sisters" (GM)
"At the Stockman Bar, Where the Men Fall in Love, and the Women
Just Fall" (GM)
Barbara
Bockelman
"The Cowtank" (CGP)
Jim Bollers
"Fill Up Those Glasses, Bartender" (CPG)
Jon Bowerman
"For Jeff" (CPG)
"Tribute to Freckles and Tornado" (CPG)
"Calvin'"
(CPM)
"The Hunter" (CPM)
"Last Visit with the Banker" (CPM)
"The Runaways" (CPM)
"The Saturday Matinee" (CPM)
Dan
Bradshaw
"Chickens and Cows" (CHSG)
"Cow Gas" (CHSG)
"I'll Be Go to Hell" (CHSG)
"The Vet" (CHSG)
Helen Kay Brander and June Brander Gilman
"People Will Talk" (GM)
Frank A.
Brewer
"The Legion of the Lost" (CPUT)
"Old Horse" (CPUT)
F. Allan Brewer
"The Devil's Circle" by F. Allan Brewer and Frances B. Steiner (CPUT)
"Modern Cowboy" (CPUT)
"A Most Colorful Life" (CPUT)
E.
A. Brininstool
"The Cowgirl" (CLP)
"A Cowpunch Courtship" (CLP)
"'Cupid' on a Cow Ranch" (CLP)
"Juanita" (CLP)
"A Locoed Outfit" (CLP)
"Love On the 'Bar-X'" (CLP)
"'Suffrage" in Sagebrush (CLP)
Darin
Brookman
"Tempered Souls" (CPR)
Ed Brown
"Cow's Head" (CHSG)
"A Grisly Tale, or The Below Zero Hero" (CHSG)
"I'm Teaching School, Not Dead" (CHSG)
"Matrimony" (CHSG)
"Cowdogs"
(NCPG)
"Saloons" (NCPG)
"Bronc
Ride" (HCP)
"Cowboy's Boys" (HCP)
"More Shorter" (HCP)
"In the Eye of the Beholder" (MWV)
"Small Towns" (CPR)
Karen
Brown
"Sonnet of the Sage" (CPR)
Robert
R. Brown
"Charlie Jones" (CPM)
"Mysterious Maiden" (CPM)
"Old Never" (CPM)
Curt
Brummett
"Brownie Was a Good Sport" (short story) (CD)
"Buckshot Dot" see Dee Strickland Johnson
Lucille Bradley
Bush
"Swappin' Yarns at Roundup" (CPUT)
"Beatty, Nevada" (CPUT)
Laurie Wagner
Buyer
"Sego Lily" (CLP)
"Thirty Nine" (CLP)
"Bareback"
(CPM)
"Kneading Bread" (CPM)
"Letters" (CPM)
"Madge" (CPM)
"Smell of Sage" (CPM)
"Sunderance" (CPM)
"When I Came West" (CPM)
"Wooing the Wanton Mare" (CPM)
"For Brandy
at Age 21" (CGP)
"Horseback, Through Snow" (CGP)
"Sammy Blue's Rabbit Chasing Days" (CGP)
"Haiku from
the Mountains" (MWV)
"Mud Creek Beaver" (MWV)
"Smell of Sage" (MWV)
"Through Aspens and Beyond" (MWV)
"His Horses" (CPR)
"Eight
Rabbits" (GM)
"Gathering Mint" (GM)
"Purple Tulips" (GM)
Ellis
Campbell
"Wanda Jill" (CPR)
Deb Carpenter
"Two Dogs" (CGP)
Bill Carlson
"Death of the Wild Horse" (MPS)
"Range Horses" (MPS)
"Settin' on a Bucket in the Shade" (MPS)
Robert
V. Carr
"A Romance of the Range" (CLP)
"An' A Two-Step's What They Play" (CLP)
"Down at Haller's Dancin'" (CLP)
"Love Lyrics of a Cowboy" (CLP)
"The Man You Couldn't Get" (CLP)
"Real Affection" (CLP)
"That There Girl" (CLP)
"Them Heap Big Thoughts" (CLP)
"Times Heavy Hand" (CLP)
"To Dance With Her" (CLP)
Nona Kelley Carver
"The Brand" (CPH)
"Chili Pepper Pete" (CPH)
"Cowboy Who's Who" (CPH)
"Daughter of the Prairie" (CPH)
"Grandpa's Gift" (CPH)
"The Old Barn" (CPH)
Jo Casteel
"The Silence" (CGP)
"Somethin' Strange" (CGP)
"Sure Am Lucky" (CGP)
Anastacio
Castillo
recites "El Corrido de Kiansas" (anonymous) (CPCD)
Bruce Caswell
"Brain Transplant" (HCP)
"Rancher's Reward" (HCP)
Ron Chappell
"Cliff Dwellers" (MWV)
"Kings, Tonight" (MWV)
Larry
Chittenden
"The Cowboy's Christmas Ball" (CPG)
Bob Christensen
"Rancher's Revenge" (NCPG)
Charles "Badger" Clark
"A Bad Half Hour" (CLP)
"A Border Affair" (CLP)
"The Tied Maverick" (CLP)
"A Cowboy's Prayer" (CPG)
"The Old Cow Man" (BVV)
"From
Town" recited by John Dofflemyer (CPCD)
"The Legend of Boastful Bill" recited by Paul Zarzyski (CPCD)
"The Smoke-Blue Plains" recited by Elizabeth Ebert (CPCD)
"Ridin'" (CPR)
Wallace David Coburn
"The Cowboy's Fate" (RNR)
"The Stampede" (RNR)
"Sunrise in the Bad Lands" (RNR)
"The Cowboy's Reply" (CPR)
Jane
Candia Coleman
"Letter from San Pedro" (HR)
"Flowering
Almond" (GM)
"Old Pete" (GM)
"Poor Will's Widow" (GM)
"Sandhill Cranes" (GM)
Wayne Cornett
"The Tall Timid Cowboy" (HCP)
Ellie
Corrigan
"Gun Powder and Calico" (MPS)
"Savage Santa Claus" (MPS)
Ethie Corrigan
"Spirit of the Poem" (MPS)
Bob Court
"Ropin' the Iron Horse" (HCP)
Peggy
Simpson Curry
"The Hunt" (GM)
"Jack Patton" (GM)
"When Words First Spoke to Me" (GM)
Dakota Slim
"Hoss Trader" (HCP)
"Just Thirsty" (HCP)
"Old Cows" (HCP)
Doris
Daley
recites "They Keep A-Stealing on You in the Night" by Rhoda
Sivell (CPCD)
"Bones"
(CGP)
"100 Years from Now" (CGP)
"Love is Blind" (CPR)
Ruth Daniels
"Noise Level" (MWV)
"Small Town Dying" (MWV)
"City
Cousin" (GM)
"Cowpath" (GM)
Doug Davis
"The Cowboy's Diet" (CPH)
Pete Davis
"Measured by Number" (WCP)
"A Time an' Place" (WCP)
Mike Dawson
"Cowboy Common Sense" (CHSG)
"Fifty Dollars" (CHSG)
"The Young Cowboy" (CHSG)
Honey DeFord
"Bandito Gold" (WCP)
"Vi" (WCP)
Lyn DeNaeyer, see Messersmith, Lyn DeNaeyer
Frank
Desprez
"Lasca" (CLP)
Duane
Dickinson
"The Long, Long Texas Trail" (MPS)
"Ride, Cowboy, Ride" (MPS)
John
Dofflemeyer
"Blackrock Pass" (NCPG)
"Drought of Seventy-seven" (NCPG)
"'Til I Depart" (NCPG)
"Chagoopa
Plateau" (BES)
"The Sierra's Spine" (BES)
"Upstream" (BES)
"When the Redbuds Come" (BES)
"The
Aliens" (CPM)
"One, April" (CPM)
"To Have a Man" (CPM)
"Twenty-sixth Winter" (CPM)
recites "From Town" by Charles Badger Clark (CPCD)
"One Moment,
Please!" (CPR)
Bunny Dryden
"Angel Wranglers" (CPH)
Jay Dusard
"Good Buckskin Horse" (MWV)
"Southwestern Suite Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall" (MWV)
"Spring, 1965" (MWV)
Gordon Eastman
"Buckskin Flats" (CPG)
Gordon Eastman
"The Magpie" (MPS)
"Sunset" (MPS)
Tom Eaton
"Dude Wrangler's Lament" (MPS)
"Riding" (MPS)
"Silhouette" (MPS)
Elizabeth
Ebert
"An Old Cowboy's Prayer" (CD)
"Store Candy" (CD)
recites "The Smoke-Blue Plains" by Charles Badger Clark (CPCD)
"Cowboy
Courtin' Time" (CGP)
"She Loved Her Horses" (CGP)
"The
Cemetery" (HCP)
"The Last Great Rabbit Hunt" (HCP)
"An Ordinary
Morning" (GM)
"Song from the Day the Pump Broke" (GM)
"Store Candy" (GM)
"He Talked About
Montana" (MPS)
"No One Ever Wrote Me a Love Poem" (MPS)
"The Saga of the Rancher's Son" (MPS)
Don
Edwards
sings the traditional "Colorado Trail" on the CD (BVV)
sings the traditional "Home on the Range" with Riders in the Sky on
the CD (BVV)
Gretel
Ehrlich
"Born in the Afternoon" (GM)
"For David" (GM)
"The Orchard" (GM)
Fred
G. Ellis
"Dear Mr. Auctioneer" (HCP)
"Dear Mr. Foreman" (HCP)
Martha
Downer Ellis
"Happy Birthday" (GM)
"Never Let Us Think" (GM)
Donna Hacking Ericson
"The Odor at the Riddle Ranch Dance" (HCP)
Ernie Fanning
"One Red Rose" (CPG)
"The Vanishing Valley" (CPG)
Charles
Firnekas
"Champion" (WCP)
"Hole in the Wall" (WCP)
Marion
Fitzgerald
"Among Udder Things" (CGP)
"Country Girls" (CGP)
"Banjo, May I Have This Dance" (CPR)
Ray
Fitzgerald
"The Wood Jingler" (CHSG)
"Progress (Dewey's Brandin')" (CHSG)
"Reminisicin'" (CHSG)
C.
Rolf M. Flake
"That Dog" (CPH)
Florene Flatt
"Last Laugh" (HCP)
Curley Fletcher
"The Cowboy's Prayer" (CPG)
"The Flyin' Outlaw" (CPG)
"The Strawberry Roan" (CPG)
"The Sheep-herders Lament" (BVV)
"The Strawberry Roan" recited by Ray Lashley (CPCD)
Robert
Fletcher
"The Trail of An Old Timer's Memory (HR)
"The
Missouri" (RNR)
"Ringbone Sam" (RNR)
"The Trail of the Old Timer's Memory" (RNR)
Leon Flick
"Go and Just Buckaroo" (NCPG)
"Listen to the Sun Go Down" (NCPG)
Mary
Hannay Foote
"Where the Pelican Builds" (CGP)
Pat Frolander
"Independence" (CGP)
Wayne Fuller
"Old Green Lizzie" (MPS)
Josephine
"Jo" Fulton
"The Bronc Ride" (WCP)
Dennis
Gaines
"Alone" (CD)
"Dem Buckin' Bronco Blues" (CD)
"A Different Point of View" (CPR)
Delia Gist Gardner
"Hail and Farewell" (CGP)
Gail I. Gardner
"Cowboy Love Song" (CLP)
"The Dude
Wrangler" (CPG)
"The Sierry Petes" (CPG)
"The
Moonshine Steer" recited by Georgie Sicking (CPCD)
"The Sierry Petes" recited by Gail Steiger (CPCD)
Lloyd M. Gerber
"Real or Fake" (HCP)
"Those Cats" (HCP)
Dick Gibford
"Cowboy's Toast" (CPG)
"The Last Buckaroo" (CPG)
"The Old Cowman" (CPG)
"The Sound of
Spurs" (CPR)
June
Brander Gilman
"Brander Sisters" (CGP)
"Cowgirls of the '30's" (CGP)
"July Thunderstorms" (CGP)
"People Will Talk" (GM) with Helen Kay Brander
"Dignity* and What it's
Worth" (MPS)
"Cowgirls of the Thirties" (MPS)
"Solitude" (MPS)
Dana Gioia
"Can Poetry Matter?" (essay) (CPM)
Jon
Forrest Glade
"Route 138" (MWV)
Peggy
Godfrey
"A Country Graft" (CHSG)
"Free Verse" (CHSG)
"I Tried" (CHSG)
"Real Wealth" (CHSG)
"The Vigil of 559" (CHSG)
"Definition"
(HR)
"Old Vogal" (HR)
recites "'Purt Near!'" by S. Omar Barker (CPCD)
"Hank
Warner's Lucky Burro" (CGP)
"Real Wealth" (CGP)
"Get It
Right, Fella!" (HCP)
"Sellin' Postholes" (HCP)
"Old Vogal"
(GM)
"Perfect Wife" (GM)
"Roland" (GM)
Ken Goss
"Last of the Range Riders" (MPS)
"Old Bob" (MPS)
"The Road to Jordan" (MPS)
Jim
Green
"Dead Horse Winter" (RNR)
"Hired Guns" (RNR)
"The Kid with the Cut-away Holster" (RNR)
"Wild Card on the North Fork" (RNR)
"Jughandle
Smith Goes to Town" (HCP)
"No Time in Sweetgrass" (HCP)
"Bounty
Hunter" (MWV)
"Branding Day" (MWV)
"Hired Guns" (MWV)
"Mountain Likker" (MWV)
Roberta Green
"Redwing" (MPS)
Wylie
Gustafson
"A Good One" (CPR)
Tami Haaland
"After This" (CPM)
"August" (CPM)
"Finding the Trail" (CPM)
Drummond Hadley
"Gathering Cattle in the Deertracks
Pasture" (CPG)
"Alma de mi
alma" (BES)
"Juan's Last Trail" (BES)
"Song of the WS Ranch" (BES)
"Cow Tradin'
by the Rio Grande" (MWV)
"Gathering Cattle for the Fish Creek Cattle Association Before the Snows
Trap Them in
the High Country, Winter, Jackson Hole 1979, Wyoming" (MWV)
"Grand Canyon" (MWV)
"Lookin' for a Place to Bed Down" (MWV)
Barbara
Hall
"Another Wreck" (CHSG)
"Gates" (CHSG)
"Wind Side of My Horse" (CHSG)
Donald
Hall
"Names of Horses" (CPM)
Sharlot Hall
"The Smell of Rain" recited by Virginia Bennett (CPCD)
"Man-sized
Job" (CGP)
"Smell of Rain" (CGP)
"Wild Morning Glories" (CGP)
Jim Hammons
"Practicality" (MWV)
Carol Hample
"The Steering Wheel" (HCP)
R. W. Hampton
"My Maria" (BVV)
"Donny Catch a Horse for Me" (on the CD) (BVV)
"Just Had to
Run and Rope Him" (CPR)
Sunny
Hancock
"Change on the Range" (CHSG)
"Cowdogs, Generally Speaking" (CHSG)
"The High-Steppin' Kind" (CHSG)
"A Bear Tale" (on the CD) (BVV)
recites "When You're Throwed" by Bruce Kiskaddon (CPCD)
"Ode To My Lady, My Wife" (CPR)
Audrey
Hankins
"Buzzard and Noah" (CHSG)
"Mixed Feelings" (CHSG)
"Rusty, John, and Brown" (CHSG)
"Susie's Dream" (CHSG)
"The Granny
Cow" (CGP)
"His Place or Mine" (CGP)
"Wrong Road" (CGP)
"Hollyhocks" (CPR)
"Relapse" (GM)
Jack Hannah
"The Old Prospector" (CPR)
Ray Hanzlik
"Cook's Revenge" (CPR)
Larry
C. Harmer
"Ode to a Little Lady..or a Vertical Smile in the Key of 'C'"
(CPH)
Cynthia
J. Harper
"Shipwreck, New Mexico" (MWV)
Zay Hartigan
"Will You Still Love Me When My Puppies Are Dogs?" (CPH)
Linda
Hasselstrom
"Carolyn, Miranda, and Me" (on the CD) (BVV)
"Handbook to Ranching" (BVV)
"Rancher Roulette" (BVV)
"Staying in One Place" (BVV)
"Beef
Eater" (CPM)
"Butchering the Crippled Heifer" (CPM)
"Coffee Cup Cafe" (CPM)
"Hands" (CPM)
"Haying: A Four-part Definition" (CPM)
"My Last Will and Testament" (CPM)
"What the Falcon Said" (CPM)
"Coyote
Song" (CGP)
"Keeping an Eye Out" (CGP)
"Digging
Potatoes" (MWV)
"Drought Year" (MWV)
"Spring" (MWV)
"Uncle" (MWV)
"Priests of the Prairie" (CPR)
"Beef
Eater" (GM)
"Driving Into a Storm" (GM)
"Planting Peas" (GM)
"Rancher Roulette" (GM)
"Seasons in South Dakota" (GM)
Jean
Mathisen Haugen
"Cowboy Law" (CPH)
"Cowboy
Auction" (WCP)
"Heaven's Reaches" (WCP)
Joel Hayes
"Computer Ranching" (HCP)
"Full Value" (HCP)
Andy
Hedges
"Texas Braggin'" (CPR)
Terry Henderson
"Stinky Tenant" (CGP)
"The Littlest
Cowboy" (WCP)
"Ode to the Calf Wrestler" (WCP)
Lynn
Hendrickson
"Ridin' to Do" (WCP)
"Savin' the Herd" (WCP)
Brewster
Higley
"Home on the Range" (HR)
"Home on the Range" (on the CD, sung by Don Edwards and Riders in the Sky) (BVV) Listed as "classic" without author
Debra
Coppinger Hill
"Ridin' Drag" (CPH)
"The Stick" (CPH)
"Yellow Slicker" (CPH)
"The
Edge" (CGP)
"Listen" (CGP)
"The Yellow Slicker" (CGP)
"Spirits Pure" (CPR) (with Jen Hilts)
Jen
Hilts
"Spirits Pure" (CPR)
(with Debra Coppinger Hill)
Pol
Holdermann
"Whatever's Going to Happen to the Land" (MPS)
Joan Hoffman
"Helen" (GM)
"I Remember Being Beautiful" (GM)
"The Lonely, Empty, Prairie Sky" (GM)
"New Ranch Wife" (GM)
"Remembering Willie Mae" (GM)
Linda Hogan
"Celebration: Birth of a Colt" (GM)
"Left Hand Canyon" (GM)
"The Other Voices" (GM)
The Holaday and
Hampton Poet (see Kiskaddon,
Bruce) (CPR)
Dave
Holl
"How the West Was Lost" (CPH)
"Traditional Ranch Mechanics" (CPH)
"What Do You Wanna Be?" (CPH)
Yvonne
Hollenbeck
"Mortgage One Good Wife" (CGP)
"How Far is
Lonesome" (CPR)
Derrell Hollis
"Horsehead Crossing" (CPH)
"The Wager" (CPH)
Jess
Howard
"Racehorse" (CPR)
Suzette Howard
"Wayne's Hands" (CPH)
Stan Howe
"Back Home on the Range" (MPS)
"Ridin' for the Family Brand" (MPS)
"The Trail to Judith Basin" (MPS)
Charlie Hunt
"The Rascal" (HCP)
Yula
Sue Hunting
"Old Age" (CPR)
"Dear
Sirs" (CPUT)
"A Fall" (CPUT)
Linda Hussa
"A Birth" (BES)
"The Blue Filly" (BES)
"In This Moment" (BES)
"Under the Hunter Moon" (BES)
"Dear
Child" (CPM)
"Dewclaw" (prose) (CPM)
"Give Us Rain!" (CPM)
"I Fix the Fence-The Fence Fixes Me" (CPM)
"In the Evening Autumn" (CPM)
"Love Letters" (CPM)
"The Man Shoeing a Horse and His Little Girl" (CPM)
"Playing at Doctor" (CPM)
"Swans" (CPM)
"His Cowgirl
Rides the Copper Horse" (CGP)
"Return" (CGP)
"Love
Letters" (MWV)
"The Man Shoeing a Horse and His Little Girl" (MWV)
"Nor a Borrower Be" (MWV)
"Sewing Circle" (MWV)
"Waiting" (MWV)
"The Weir" (CPR)
"The Blue
Filly" (GM)
"Homestead in Hell Creek Canyon" (GM)
"Homesteaders, Poor and Dry" (GM)
"Under the Hunter Moon" (GM)
"The Widow Olson" (GM)
Tony Ilardi
"The Dead Horse" (HCP)
"Old Joker" (HCP)
Chris
Isaacs
"The Stampede at Jenny's Café" (CPR)
Hans
Peter Iverson
"Hans Peter Iverson's Life History in Verse" (CPUT)
Bette
Hartman Jaedicke
"Summer Love" (CPH)
"Trouble in Timber" (CPH)
Carole
Jarvis
"Not a Man's Problem" (CHSG)
"Thanks for the Rain" (CHSG)
"A Special Breed" (CPH)
"The First
Sure Signs of Spring" (CGP)
"Round-Up Hand" (CGP)
Dan Jarvis
"Mistake" (CPH)
Floyd A. Jensen
"The Day I Roped a Deer" (CPUT)
"Back Home" (CPUT)
"Old Jack Swenson's Ride" (CPUT)
Tim Jobe
"A Second Chance" (CPR)
Dee
Strickland Johnson ("Buckshot Dot")
"Fredonia" (CGP)
"Herd a-Passin'" (CGP)
"Tomboy" (CGP)
"Recipe for
Rough" (CPR)
Jeremiah Johnson
"We Yearned to Live" (CPH)
Nick
Johnson
"Dudes" (CPG)
"Greasin' the Miles" (CPG)
Tony Johnston
"The Barn" (CPM)
"So Many Horses" (CPM)
"To the Wild Pony" (CPM)
"Whispers" (CPM)
Bill
Jones
"Answered Prayer" (CHSG)
"Bert" (CHSG)
"Lover, Fighter, Wild Horse Rider" (CHSG)
"Roundup at the BAR B Bar" (CHSG)
"The Cook's
Revenge" (HCP)
"Little Slim" (HCP)
"The Pretzel Hold" (HCP)
"American
Hero-for Cary" (MWV)
"Luck of the Draw-for Warren Spriggs" (MWV)
LeRoy
Jones
"I'm Working for the Government" (HCP)
"The Preacher's Horse" (HCP)
Teresa Jordan
"Before the Phone" prose (BVV)
"Kelley," prose from "Riding the White Horse Home" (BVV)
"Old Anne" (BVV)
"My Great-aunt Marie" (on the CD) (BVV)
"My O Dere Children, I Wish You Were Heare." (on the CD and in the
book) (BVV)
"Looking
Back" (MWV)
"Old Anne" (MWV)
Mick Kaser
"Bugles on the Mornin'" (WCP)
Greg Keeler
"Coyote's Wilderness Lobby" (MWV)
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