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(with the year noted that the poem first appeared at the BAR-D )Poem titles link to poems
Classic Christmas Cowboy Poetry
S. Omar Barker
Bunkhouse Christmas (2007)
Christmas Promise (2005)
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer (2001)
Draggin' the Tree (2006)
Drylander's Christmas (2001)
Empty Saddles at Christmas (2005)
Line-Camp Christmas (2007)
Line-Camp Christmas Letter (2002)
Shepherds of the Range (2005)
Three Wise Men (2005)E. A. Brininstool
Christmas Week in Sagebrush (2004)Arthur Chapman
Christmas Shopping in Cactus Center (2001)Larry Chittenden
The Cowboys' Christmas Ball (2001)Badger Clark
The Christmas Trail (2001)Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas (2004)Robert Frost
The Christmas Trees (2007)Bret Harte
Dick Spindler's Family Christmas (story) (2001)Will James
The Winter Camp (prose) (2006)Bruce Kiskaddon
The Christmas Tree (2004)
The Cowboys Christmas Dance (2001)
Merry Christmas (2007)
The Old Time Christmas (2001)Henry Lawson
Ben Duggan (2001)
The Fire at Ross's Farm (2001)D. J. O'Malley
A Busted Cowboy's Christmas (2001)A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
Santa Claus (2001)
Santa Claus in the Bush (2001)Buck Ramsey
Christmas Waltz (2003)Charlie Russell
from his 1914 Christmas card (2003)Robert Service
The Cremation of Sam McGee (2001)
The Trapper's Christmas Eve (2001)Rhoda Sivell
Happy Days (2001)Owen Wister
A Journey in Search of Christmas (story) (2005)
from Owen Wister's 1898 novel, Lin McLean, illustrated by Frederic Remington.
Contemporary Christmas Cowboy Poetry
Keith L. Adams
Christmas on the Porch (2002)Rose Mary Allmendinger
Dear Santa, (2001)David Althouse
Believin' a White Christmas inta Bein (2003)
Cowboy Christmas Carol (2004)
Christmas in Cimarron Country (2007)
Christmas Out Here (2007)
Cowboy Pirate of the Rio Grande: A Christmas Treasure Tale (2006)
The Night Before the Jackalopes Saved Christmas (2005)Suzanne Ball
An Unlikely Angel (2001)Dianne Baumann
Why Santa Ain't a Cowboy (2001)J. W. Beeson
Christmas Serenade (2002)C. W. (Charles) Bell
Two Gifts for Christmas (2005)
Two Burros (2006)Virginia Bennett
Ramona's Christmas Box (2001)
Sermon on the Mount (2002)Alf Bilton
Even on Christmas Day (2006)
The Freight Musher's Tale (2004)
The Lord's Own Prayer? (2005)Tony Blisard
Cowboy Christmas (2001)Barbara Bockleman
The Toaster (story) (2001)
You and Me (2000)George Bourbeau
Christmas Conversion (2004)
Christmas Mystery (2001)
The Gift (2005)
Reindeer Wrangler (2001)Doug Brewer
Little Pot-bellied Stove (2004)Ron Brinegar
Letter to Santa (2002)Barb Brown
Having a Heeler Christmas (2001)Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)
A Christmas Eve to Remember (2001)
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve (2007)
The Star and a Humble Cowboy (2001)Jack Burdette
Angel in the Window (2006)
The Nighthawk's Christmas (2007)Lanny Joe Burnett
Nightwork (2000)Gail T. Burton
Bunkhouse Christmas Eve (2000)
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer (2000)
How Far is it to Bethlehem (2004)
Just Celebrating (2006)Rusty Calhoun
Christmas Eve White-Out (2000)
Cookie’s Christmas Puddin’ (2000)
Lost in the Snow (story) (2001)
When The Animals Talk (2000)Charlie Camden
A Christmas letter...... (2003)
(A holiday letter) (2001)
Thanksgiving (prose) (2002)Jim Cardwell
Prelude to a Drought (2005)
Iowa 1842 (2006)Timothy Carrier
The First Christmas (2002)Nona Kelley Carver
When The Cowboys Came For Christmas (2002)TJ Casey
Cowboy Christmas Time (2005)Janice Chapman
The Christmas Sleigh (2001)Bobby Cohoon
It Happened One Christmas (2002)Dean Cook
Grubline Carol (2001)Carl Condray
Christmas in the Scrub Oaks (2003)
A Wild, Turkey Dinner (2005)
Winter Stampede (2002)Ken Cook
Remote Control Wife (2007)Van Criddle
A Christmas Tale (2005)
Merry Christmas? (2005)
Star So Bright (2007)Clark Crouch
Christmas Blew In (2006)
Christmas of '05 (2005)
Christmas on the Prairie (2003)
A Christmas Tale
Christmas Wish (2006)
Journey's End (2007)
A Prairie Christmas (2004)
Santa's Brand (2004)Doris Daley
A Christmas Prayer (2003)Suzann Darnall
The Night Before Christmas...Texas Style (2002)Sam DeLeeuw
Christmas Gift -- A Sack of Dreams (2002)
A Rancher's Wife's Christmas (2002)
A Rancher's Christmas (2004)Robert Dennis
The Gift (2005)
Bringing Home Christmas (2006)Catherine Lilbit Devine
Christmas for Cowgirls (2005)
In Every Cowboy Heart (2006)
Line Cabin Christmas (2007)David Dill
Jefferson's Christmas (2002)"California Steve" Dirksen
Cowboy Christmas Light (2002)
If There's No Need (2003)
Special Day (2001)Mike Dunn
Wrappings & Bows (2002)Larry Dudley
The Bill (2000)Lee Earl
A Helping Hand (2002)Elizabeth Ebert
(2006)
Mitten ChristmasGlen Enloe
Blue Moon Christmas (2006)
Campfire Christmas Eve (2007)
A Christmas for Cowboys (2003)
Christmas in a Bottle (2004)
The Christmas Orange (2005)
Don't Ever Sell Your Saddle (2004)
Moon Shadows on the Snow (2005)
The Red Calico Cowboy Santa Claus of Concho County (2004)
Kiskaddon Christmas (2007)G. Don Ensminger
Christmas Mornings (2001)
My Winter Conditions (2001)
Riding Up the Western Slope (2001)
Sante Fe Santa Claus (2001)Jan Erickson
Uncle Charlie's Christmas Eve (2004)
A Day in December (2004)K. T. Etling
Angels in the Desert (2000)
Rudolph Was an Outlaw (2000)
Santa Drives a Cutter (2000)
Today He'd Be a Cowboy (2000)Sherrod L. Fielden
Charlie's Christmas (2003)
The Awakening (2004)Dave P. Fisher
Santa and Slim (2004)
What Santa Gave Jack (2005)Jim Fish
Christmas Time's Around the Bend (2002)JA Fox
A Penner's Letter to Santa (2002)Dennis Gaines
Jim Quarternight's Gift (2000)Greg Gilbert
A Cowboy Christmas Prayer (2005)Janice Gilbertson
A "Little Cowboy" Conversation (2002)
Seein' is Believin' (2004)Tim Graham
Christmas Time (2001)Don Gregory
Cowboys and Christmas "Spirits" (2001)
Playin' Santa (2001)DW Groethe
A Charlie Creek Christmas (2003)
Out My Window (2005)
'Twas a Fright Before Christmas or Snake Eye Saves the Day (2007)Audrey Hankins
Christmas at the Ranch (2005)Paul Hatch
An Arizona Christmas (2002)
A Christmas Poem?? (2001)
When Pigs Fly (2001)Donna Hatton
A Christmas Memory (2003)Jean Mathisen Haugen
Carol of the Wild (2001)
Dust and Snow (2002)
An Encounter (2001)
God Rest Ye Merry Cattlemen (2002)
God Rest Ye Merry Grumps (2007)
Wrong Turn! (2003)"Doc" Dale Hayes
A Gift for Mary Lou (2000)Terry Henderson
The Boy in Sheepskin Shoes (2005)
Old Santa Won't Come to Our Ranch (2005)Lynne Hendrickson
Reindeer Disguise (2002)Michael Henley
The Gate Cut (2002)
The Promise (2006)Linda Hermes
A Good Life (2005)Dennis Higgins
The Ballad of Big NickJeff Hildebrandt
Angels Aren't the Only Ones Playing Harps(2005)
A Christmas Tale (2005)Debra Hill
12 Days of Cowboy Christmas (2000)
The Stranger (2001)Tamara Hillman
Cowboy/Country Christmas (2006)Don Hilmer
(2006)
The One Runnered Sleigh
Bringing Christmas Home (2006)Yvonne Hollenbeck
All American Christmas (2002)
The Annual Christmas Program (2001)
Cooper's Christmas (a skit for young folks) (2003)
A Christmas Tale (2005)
An Old Fashioned Christmas (2001)
The Perfect Gift (2003)
Virginia, I Believe (2003)
Bringing Home Christmas (2006)LaVonne Houlton
The Christmas Miracle (2004)
The Christmases of My Childhood (1930's) (prose, 2005)
Joseph (2006)Bobbie Hunter
A Cowboy's Christmas Thoughts (2006)J. S. Hurst
A Christmas to Remember (2006)Sam Jackson
Country Christmas (2001)Carole Jarvis
Desert Cowboy's Christmas (2002)D. T. Johannsen
A Cowboy's First Christmas (2005)Jim John
A Tallgrass Prairie Christmas (2000)
A Cowboy Holiday Wish (2004)Dee Strickland Johnson
see Buckshot Dot
Joyce Johnson
Bringing Home Christmas (2006)
Christmas Eve Ride (2007)
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve (2007)
A Lonely Christmas (2006)
Santa's Shadow (2005)
Santa Through the Years (2005)
A Stormy Christmas Eve (2004)LeRoy Jones
The Night Before Christmas (2003)
What Does a Cowboy Do for Christmas? (2003)Sue Jones
The Silver Spurs (2005)Frank Jordan
Yeah, That Too (story) (2001)Doug Keith
Remember Christmas (2004)David Kelley
Bigger Than Ever (2000)
My Cowboy's Night Before Christmas (2000)Don Kennington
Preparation (2004)Paul Kern
Bring 'Er Home (2006)
Broken Things to Mend (2007)
The Christmas Celebration of Helen Dutton (2005)
A Cowboy Country Christmas (2006)
My Blue-Eyed Bay (2004)
Prayer Comes Easy in a Barn (2003)Tom King
Holy Smoke! (2005)Naughty and Nice! (2003)
Pedro's Christmas Tree (2004)Linda Kirkpatrick
The Christmas Story (2000)
One Less Chair at the Table (2003)
Santa Claus' Sidekick (2001)Jo Lynne Kirkwood
El Niņo Navidad (2000)
Chub’s Christmas Visit (2000)
Christmas in the County (2006)
Christmas on the North Fork (2002)
Cowboy Christmas Eve (2007)
Cowboys and Christmas (2004)
It's Sure Startin' to Feel Like Christmas (2005)
Mesquite Magi (2006)
Sandy Kris (2007)
Visitation (2004)
We Didn't Have Much, Then, for Christmas (2003)Joe Kunkel
One Saturday in December (2004)Ron Lambert
Christmas Wink (2003)Chuck Larsen
The Perfect Tree (2004)
The Makin' of Christmas (2006)eric lee
Christmas Cattle-Call (2005)Alan Lemke
The Christmas Star (2001)Bob E. Lewis
Christmas on the Rafter-L Ranch (2000)
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball (2000)Gary "Old Buckaroo" Lundblad
A Corpus Christi Cowboy Christmas (2001)Deanna Dickinson McCall
Gifts in the Hay (2006)McCloud
Bunkhouse Christmas Eve (2001)
Christmas Eve (2001)
A Christmas Story (2000)
Cowboys and Christmas (2002)
A Small Miracle (2000)Ben McKenzie
Christmas at McCreaty's (2000)Slim McNaught
The Tale of "A Christmas Tale" (2005)
A Christmas Thought (2006)
The Kissin' Tree (2006)Larry Maurice
It's That Time Again (2003)
Peace on Earth (2002)Mag Mawhinney
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve (2007)
Winter Range (2006)Al Mehl
The Brand New Year (2007)
A Cuttin' Horse (2006)
No Room at the Inn (2006)
Star of Wonder (2007)Harold Roy Miller
Christmas Cap Pistol (2005)
Christmas Night Ride (2004)
A Christmas Tall Tale (2005)Rod Miller
Stopping By Woods (2006)Janice Mitich
The Christmas Ox (2001)Jane Morton
Christmas Love (2004)
Christmas Memories (2007)
Christmas Turkeys (2001)
Christmas Voices (2005)
Cody's Christmas Present (2007)
Memories of Place (2006)
Montgomery Wards (2001)
Ranch Christmas (2002)
Robert May's Story (2003)
Seein' Santa (2003)
The Spirit of Christmas (2006)Curly Musgrave
Prairie Silent Night (2004)Rodney Nelson
Christmas at Sims (2007)
Christmas on the Prairie (2006)
Up Sims Creek (2006)Rod Nichols
A Badger Clark Christmas (2005)
Bringing Home Christmas (2006)
Christmas at the Bunkhouse (2001)
Christmas Comes to Line Camp (2000)
The Christmas Corral (2006)
A Christmas Journey (2004)
A Christmas Mem'ry (2003)
Christmas Round the Campfire (2000)
A Christmas Tale (2005)
A Cowboy Christmas Carol (2002)
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve (2007
Little Britches (2001)
Neath a Christmas Eve Sky (2007)
New Year's Eve (2000)
Seein' Santa (2004)Howard Norskog
The Old Cowboy's Christmas (2002)Leon Overbay
Children's Christmas Play (2000)Ken Overcast
Givin' a Little Back (story) (2004)
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer (2004)Jim Owen
One of Those Nights Before Christmas (2002)
Sam T. Nickles (2001)
A Song In His Heart (2001)Ed Parrish
The Christmas Ejection Saddle (2000)S. J. Passamonte
A Christmas Thought (2001)
In the Barn on Christmas Eve (2002)
Jinglebobs a Ringin' (2001)Donna Penley
The Christmas Tree Angels (2006)Jan Price
A Cowboy's Guiding Star (2007)Mike Puhallo
Christmas Shopping (2001)
A Cowboy Christmas (2001)
Countdown to Christmas (2002)
Cow Country Christmas Memory (2003)
Jingle Bells!! (2001)
Merry Procrastination? (2006)
Running in the Team (2003)
An Uptown Affair (2005)
What's It All About Charlie Brown (2004)
Wild Horse Christmas (2007)J. D. Reitz
Christmas Eve at the Silver Dollar Saloon (2000)
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve (2000)Pat Richardson
Christmas Cheer (2003)
Howdy Friend (2002)
Merry Christmas (2002)
Here's to the Cowboys (2006)Jo Lee T. Riley
This Cowhand's Life (2007)Ted Risberg
The Ol' Man In Red (2006)Rich Roach
A Cowboy Christmas (2004)Francine Roark Robison
A Cowboy Christmas (2000)
The Cowboy Christmas Ball (2002)Lincoln Rogers
Christmas Message (2006)
The Pilfered Slice (2003)
December's Trail Home (2004)Steve Rohlman
A Visit From St. Nick? (2003)Sherri Ross
Jake (2001)Connie Rossignol
Of Donkeys and Reindeer (2001)Norm Rourke
Christmas Comes in a Chevy Truck (2001)Rusty Salmon
Never Too Late (2004)Bruce Satta
Christmas Eve, Near Rabbit Creek (2005)
Fact That I'm Believin' (2005)
Santa's Hat (2003)
Temperance (2004)
There's Somethin' in the Air (2004)Cade Schalla
When Cowboys Saved Christmas (2005)Bob Schild
Christmas 2003 (2003)
Santa Comes Calvin' (2003)Jerry Schleicher
Moonlight Spectre (2005)
Night Thoughts (2007)
The Schoolhouse Christmas Tree (2007)Pat "Pinto" Schutz
The Big Cold Chase (2001)Georgie Sicking
The Spirit of Christmas (2004)John Silveira
Cowboy Christmas (2006)Charley Sierra
A Christmas Poem (2000)Smitty
Cowboy Christmas (2000)Jay Snider
Santa's Helper (2001)
Never Shop on Christmas Eve (2004)Sonoran Sam (Bernie Howe)
Christmas on the Mogollon Rim (2001)Ezra Spur
Shaving Cream Santa Claus (2001)
The Tree (2003)
The Visit (2002)Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns
Christmas Way Out West (2003)
The Explanation (2001)
Grampaw's Elf (2004)
The Reason for Dead Deer (2004)
The Rest of the Story (2001)Jody Strand
Shepherds (2006)Jeff Streeby
The Ghost of Christmas Past (2004)Colen Sweeten
Christmas Beneath the Stars (2002)
In a Manger (2002)
Memories of Christmas (2002)Hal Swift
Christmas Hayride (2006)
Candles on the Christmas Tree (2001)
Christmas on the Trail (2003)
First One to Daylight (2004)
High Plains Christmas (2001)
The Language of Christmas (2004)
Santy Claus Has a Rule (2001)
Santy's Christmas Trick (2001)
Santy Claus Truly is Real (2002)
Santy West (2001)
The Twinkle Dust Machine (2005)Jerry Tolbert
Turkey Talk (2000)Neal Torrey
Celebrating Christmas in Big Piney, Wyoming (2001)
Goat Christmas (2001)Roger Traweek
The Gift (2000)Diane Tribitt
Bringing Home Christmas (2006)
A Campfire Christmas Eve (2007)
A Christmas Tale (2005)Tex Tumbleweed
A Christmas Star (2003)
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball(2002)
On the Border (2004)Dave Watson
A Christmas Tale (2005)Leroy Watts
A Cowboy Christmas Gathering (2004)Merv Webster
Thank You for the Company (2007)Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Cowboy Choir (2005)Omar West
Anna Claus (2000)
Ken Whitecotton
The Stable (2005)
A Christmas Tale (2006)
Bill E. Wild
Little Ol' Toymaker (2000)Wildwood Slim
A Cowboy Christmas Eve (2007)Charles Williams
Starry Night (2001)Woody Woodruff
Another Christmas We Spend (2001)
One Christmas Eve (2001)Byrd Woodward
Arizona Christmas Eve (2001)
A Four-Year-Old's Christmas Truth (2002)
I'll Be Good (2001)
One Night on th' Prairie (2005)
Reindeer Paws (2001)Eric Wyman
Progress (2002)John R. Yaws
A Cowboy Christmas Eve (2007)Lee Young
When Santa Met Saddle Tramp Lee (2002)
James Barton Adams
A Cowboy Toast (2001)S. Omar Barker
Cowboy's New Year's Resolutions (2001)Steve Dirksen
New Year (2001)Janice Gilbertson
Bless Ya For Takin' The Ride (2002)
Night Time's Promise (2004)
The Porch Light (2007)
The Right Way (2005)Don Gregory
Coosie's Rainbow Stew (2001)
Reminisicin' (2001)
Resolvin' Resolutions (2001)Jean Mathisen Haugen
New Year's Greetings (2002)Sam Jackson
Friends (2001)McCloud
Happy New Y'ar (2002)Rod Miller
Year 2002 Diet Resolution (2001)Janice Mitich
A New Year's Goose (2001)Rod Nichols
New Year's at Cutter Bills (2005)
New Year's Eve (2001)Mike Puhallo
Never Look Back (2005)
A New Day (2004)
Resolutions! (2001)
A New Year a New Day! (2007)Bob Schild
Ode to an Old Friend (2007)Hal Swift
New Year's Eve in Austin (2001)Jack Thorp
The Cowboys New Year Dance (2005)New Year Toasts, 2007
Selections by S. Omar Barker and Diane Tribitt, Michael Henley, V. June Collins, Rod Miller, Victoria Boyd, Glen Enloe, Hal Swift, Pat Richardson, Jeff Hildebrandt, Lincoln Rogers, Jeanne L. Thompson, Stan Carroll, and more...
