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The latest news, poetry, and more is posted here.

Below are  the most recent poems by the following poets, in alphabetical order, within these categories:

 

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Classic Cowboy Poetry

Honored Guests

 

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Special Featured Poems, Prose, and Lyrics

Singers and Songwriters

Continuing Features

Poetry in Special Features


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Lariat Laureate

Past Lariat Laureates

Lariat Laureate Finalists

More Folks' Poems

 

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Full index of all poems alphabetical by poet
A - L
M - Z

We display the titles for at least the three most recent poems accepted for each poet. 

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Classic Cowboy Poetry

 

Anonymous Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Old Chisholm Trail
Mornin' in the Desert

The West
I Ride an Old Paint
Cattleman's Prayer
The Cross Eyed Gal
Silver Jack
The Hell-Bound Train
Bill Venero
Silver Bells & Golden Spurs
Zebra Dun
Mustang Gray
The Star Planters
The Great Round-up
Old Paint
Windy Bill
The Campfire Has Gone Out
The Cowman's Prayer
The Cowboy's Meditation
The Gol-Darned Wheel
The Texas Cowboy
The Cowboy's Life  
The Pecos Stream
The Dreary, Dreary Life

The Campfire Has Gone Out (in Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys)
The Tenderfoot
Night-Herding Song
No Rest for the Horse (aka A Quiet But Useful Class)
The Cowboy's Dream
Ten Thousand Cattle Straying
The Cowboy's Lament

John Garner's Trail Herd
The Dying Cowboy
I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring
The Cattleman's Prayer/ The Cowman's Prayer
Make Me a Cowboy Again for a Day
Cowboy Jack

James Barton Adams Classic Cowboy Poetry
Bill's in Trouble
A Cowboy Toast
The Cowboy's Dance Song" ("The High-Toned Dance")
A Prospector's Thanksgiving
A Song of the Range
Thanksgiving on the Ranch

Ben Arnold Classic Cowboy Poetry
His Campfire Has Gone Out
The Campfire Has Gone Out (in Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys)

Carlos AshleyClassic Cowboy Poetry
Aunt Cordie
Ole Edgar Martin
That Spotted Sow
Bob Sears' Chili Joint

"Australie" (Mrs. Heron; Emily Manning) Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Muster

Robert "Bob" Hood Reeves Axtell Classic Cowboy Poetry
Sanctuary
Ballad of a Trail-Weary Trail-Herder

S. Omar Barker Classic Cowboy Poetry
Purt Near!
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
Drylander's Christmas
  Line-Camp Christmas Letter
Cowboy's New Year Resolutions
Shepherds of the Range
Three Wise Men
Empty Saddles at Christmas
Christmas Promise  
Watchin' Em Ride
Jack Potter's' Courtin'
Bruin Wooin'
Ranch Mother
Tall Men Riding
Breed of the Brave
Love's Hobbles
The Riders
"He'll Do!"
Into the West
Old Fence Rider
Cowboy Factory--Old Style
Grand Canyon Cowboy

The White Mustang
Code of the Cow Country
Thanksgiving Argument
Bunkhouse Thanksgiving
 Draggin' the Tree
The Norther

Pullin' Leather
Rope Music
Ranchman's Widow
Horses Versus Hosses
Saddle Lure
Curly Wolf College
Drifter's Thanksgivin'
Songs for a Land of Horseback Men
Bunkhouse Christmas
Line-Camp Christmas
Old-Time Cowboys
Four-Footed Dynamite
Tackin' on the Shoes
Canned Termaters

Stephen Vincent Benet Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Ballad of William Sycamore

E. A. Brininstool Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Bunkhouse Boys
The Country to the West
Remarks by "Bronco Bob"
The West
A Westerner
A Cattle Range at Night
 Autumn on the Range
The Grub-Pile Call  
His Trade-Marks
A Roar from the Bunkhouse
The Old Yellow Slicker
Unrest on the Range
Christmas Week in Sagebrush
The Cowman Jubilates

A Cowboy's Version
Frederic Remington
The Range Cook's "Holler"
The "Finale" of the Puncher
Back to the Range
Passing of the Old West
The Cowgirl
A Range Rider's Appeal
Rainy Day in a Cow Camp

Juanita
Sence Slim Got Piled
Cattle Land's Farewell
On Night Herd
The Range Rider's Soliloquy

Francis Humphris Brown Classic Cowboy Poetry
Scotty's Wild Stuff Stoo

Robert V. Carr Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Chuckwagon
In Search of Local Color
The Old Cowboy's Lament
Prairie Wolves
When Dutchy Plays the Mouth Harp
Yesterday  
The Tryst
Real Affection

Baldy Joe's Simple Little Rhyme

Arthur Chapman Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Bunkhouse
The Cowboy's Homing
The High-Heeled Boots
The Dude Ranch
The Meeting
The Old Dutch Oven
The Old-Timer
Out Among the Big Things
Out Where the West Begins
Pete’s Error
Christmas Shopping in Cactus Center
Daylight Saving in Cactus Center
The Debate in Cactus Center
October on the Sheep Range

The Ostrich-Punching of Arroyo Al
The Old Yaller Slicker
Journalism in Cactus Center  
Valentine Day in Cactus Center
Men in the Rough
Easter at Cactus Center
The Magic Mulligan
Arroyo Al on Worry

Classic Dancing in Cactus Center
Moving Pictures in Cactus Center
Discipline in Cactus Center
The Diamond Hitch
The Herder's Reverie
The Cow-Puncher's Elegy
The Old Sheep Wagon
The Pony Express

William Lawrence "Larry" Chittenden Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Cowboys' Christmas Ball
Texas Types--The Cowboy
Texas Types--The Sheriff
Texas Types, "The Tenderfoot."
A Stockman's Adventures in New York
The Ranchman's Song
Texas
The Origin of the Term Maverick
Old Fort Phantom Hill

Badger Clark Classic Cowboy Poetry
A Bad Half Hour
A Cowboy's Prayer (Written for Mother)
The Glory Trail (High-Chin Bob)
To Her
The Lost Pardner
The Christmas Trail
Bachin'
The Free Wind  

The Passing of the Trail
The Westerner
Ridin'
The Piano at Red's
The Wind is Blowin'  
The Bunk House Orchestra
The Rains

The Old Cow Man
The Coyote
The Legend of Boastful Bill
The Roundup
All for Nothing (prose excerpt)
The Hermitry (prose excerpt)
Jeff Hart
A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue)

The Plainsmen
God of the Open
On Boot Hill
The Outlaw
God's Reserves
Roundup Lullaby
Pals
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Hymn, 1943

Song of the Leather

Others
The Border
Saturday Night

From Town
The Rover's Toast
The Smoke-Blue Plains
The Camp Fire's Song

Ralph Garnier CooleClassic Cowboy Poetry
Desert Rat
Riding at Night
The Ranch up Yonder

Griff CrawfordClassic Cowboy Poetry
Bars in the Key of B
Cupid and Cactus

Cyclones and Dogies
Night Trails
Out Where the West Begins
The Passing of Brimstone

Captain Jack CrawfordClassic Cowboy Poetry
Thanksgiving

Broncho vs. Bicycle
The Broncho

The Burial of Wild Bill
California Joe
Klondike Balloon

Frank DesprezClassic Cowboy Poetry
Lasca

Maynard DixonClassic Cowboy Poetry
Yearlin's
In Town

To an Old Timer on New Year's Day

Eugene Field Classic Cowboy Poetry
Jest 'Fore Christmas

Curley Fletcher Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Cowboy's Prayer
The Strawberry Roan
The Pot Wrassler
Yavapai Pete
Wild Buckeroo
That Bucking Bronk, Coyote
The Saddle Tramp
Canadian Rose
The Cowboy's Soliloquy
The Ridge-Running Roan
Saga of Borax Bill
The Last Roundup
The Cow Pony's Lament
When Desert Flowers Bloom
Last of the Thundering Herd
The Desert Rat
The Sheep-Herders Lament

Robert "Bob" Fletcher Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Belled Coyote

Open Range
That Li'l Baldy Hoss

J. W. Foley Classic Cowboy Poetry
Crossing the Divide

Robert Frost Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Christmas Trees

Gail Gardner Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Sierry Petes (or Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail)
Real Cowboy Life
The Dude Wrangler
The Cowman's Troubles

Judge Lysius Gough Classic Cowboy Poetry
Gone
The T-Anchor Ranch
Reminiscing
The Palo Duro Canyon
The T-Anchor Boys
"My Grandad Was a Cowboy" story by Jim Gough

Sharlot HallClassic Cowboy Poetry
The West
Arizona
Cash In
The Old Ranch Mother
Smell of Rain
When Maw Turned the Stampede
Old Cow Men's Parade

Bret Harte  Classic Cowboy Poetry
Cicely (Alkali Station)
Coyote
Jim
The Old Campfire
A Question of Privilege
The Spelling Bee at Angels
Dick Spindler's Family Christmas (story)

John Hay Classic Cowboy Poetry
Little Breeches

Pecos HigginsClassic Cowboy Poetry
 ...Old Cowboy's Reunion...
The Pecos River

Brewster Higley et al. Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Western Home (Home on the Range)

Jack Horan Classic Cowboy Poetry
C.M. Russell—Montana's Own
In Memory
Pals

A. V. Hudson Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Land Where the Cowboy Grows

Vamose
The Homemade Cigarette

Will JamesClassic Cowboy Poetry
The Winter Camp (prose) 

Rudyard Kipling Classic Cowboy Poetry
If...

Bruce Kiskaddon Classic Cowboy Poetry
Alone
The Balky Horse
The Broncho Twister's Prayer
Drinkin' Water
The Duel
Forgotten
How a Cowpuncher Rode
Introductory
Judgment Day
Pullin' Leather
That Letter
When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall
The Old Time Christmas
The Cowboys Christmas Dance
The Long Horn Speaks
The Chuck Wagon
It Might Have Been Me or It Might Have Been You
His Old Clothes
All Dressed Up
The Christmas Tree
Second Guard
The Midwinter Bath
The Long Horn Speaks (illustrated)
The Old Night Hawk

Concernin' Bill (story)
The Time to Decide
The Creak of the Leather
Her Colt
Startin' Out
He Didn't Belong
Thinkin' it Over
The Army Mule
Summer Time
Hosses and Flies
The Dutch Oven
A Habit
When You're Throwed
The Bunk House Mirror
Her Neighbor's Kids
They Can Take It
"Augerin"

Ghost Canyon Trail
Movin' to Winter Range
Turnin' the Summer Hosses Out to Graze
An Experiment
On Foot
That Little Blue Roan
The Cow Boy's Dream
The Bell Mare
An Old Western Town
You Never Tell That
A Tough Start
The Drouth
The General Store
The Veiled Rider
Half Broke
The Ghosts at the Diamond Bar
Winter Time

The Stampede
Hook 'em Cow
Long Eared Bull
Doing Her Best
A Tangle
The Tangle

The Bundle Stiff
Merry Christmas (1933)
They Don't Thank You
A Good Cowboy
Rain
The Quitter
Headin' Fer the New Deal
The Lost Flannins
Colts
Colts (2)
Wet Boots
Cow Boy Days
Shoveling the Ice Out of the Trough
 

Henry Herbert KnibbsClassic Cowboy Poetry
Where the Ponies Come to Drink
Make Me No Grave
Boomer Johnson
The Shallows of the Ford   
Riders of the Stars
Drink Deep
The Lost Range
The Dog-Star Pup
To My Dog, "Quien Sabe" (In the Happy Hunting Grounds)
Do You Remember?
Roll a Rock Down

Right of Way
Punchin' Dough
Sunlight
Song of the Gray Stallion
Rancho in the Rain
Bronco Shod With Wings
The Walking Man
The Edge of Town
The Bronco
So Long, Chinook!
The Lone Red Rock
The Long Road West

Little Bronc
Largo
The Sheep and the Goats
On the Range
Overland's Delight

Luther A. Lawhon Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Good Old Cowboy Days

Henry Lawson Classic Cowboy Poetry
Ballad of the Drover
Out Back
The Teams
Ben Duggan
The Fire at Ross's Farm

Juanita M. Leach Classic Cowboy Poetry
This God Forsaken Land

Phil H. LeNoir Classic Cowboy Poetry
Down on the Ol' Bar-G
The Finger of Billy the Kid
Ol' Dynamite  
The Puncher Poet
Eventide in Cowboyland

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowClassic Cowboy Poetry
"Psalm of Life"

Allen McCandlessClassic Cowboy Poetry
The Cowboy's Soliloquy

Frances Henry "Frank" Maynard Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Cowboy's Lament (Streets of Laredo) 
On the Trail
Bill Springer's Hand
The Black Cat
A Reckless Cowboy
Farewell to the Plains
Passing of the Old Frontier

Joaquin Miller  Classic Cowboy Poetry
Midnight Pencillings

Columbus
Kit Carson's Ride

Whitney MontgomeryClassic Cowboy Poetry
Death Rode a Pinto Pony

Harry "Breaker" Morant Classic Cowboy Poetry
Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now

Berta Hart Nance Classic Cowboy Poetry
Cattle

Will Ogilvie Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Pearl of Them All

D. J. O'Malley Classic Cowboy Poetry
A Cowboy's Soliloquy
The "D2" Horse Wrangler
After the Roundup (When the Work's All Done This Fall)
A Busted Cowboy's Christmas
"Where Custer Fell" prose excerpt 
"Crow Rock, Deadman Creek, Blaisdale Butte" prose excerpt
"The Experiences of the F U F Roundup Crew Caught in the Cloudburst of June 1891" prose excerpt

Kate Putnam Osgood Classic Cowboy Poetry
Driving Home the Cows

A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Man From Snowy River
In the Droving Days
An Answer to Various Bards
Clancy of the Overflow

Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve
Santa Claus
Santa in the Bush
A Dog's Mistake

The Geebung Polo Club
Mulga Bill's Bicycle

Katherine Fall Pettey Classic Cowboy Poetry
Contentment
Morning on the Desert
A Song of the Plains
The Women That Don't Fit In
The Ladies of the Canyon
The Cowpunch and James Whitcomb Riley

Edgar Allen Poe Classic Cowboy Poetry
El Dorado

Harry Noyes Pratt Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Ballad of Frisco Kate's

Buck Ramsey Classic Cowboy Poetry
Christmas Waltz
Dunder Defining
From "And As I Rode Out on the Morning":
Anthem
One
A Ponder

Eben E. Rexford Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Ride of Paul Venarez

James Whitcomb RileyClassic Cowboy Poetry
Little Orphant Annie
When the Frost is on the Punkin

Decoration Day on the Place

Robert ServiceClassic Cowboy Poetry
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
The Ballad of Hard Luck Henry
The Parson's Son
The Men Who Don't Fit In
The Quitter
The Trapper's Christmas Eve
Anonymous
The Cow-Juice Cure

Land of Beyond  
Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
The Three Voices
My Masterpiece
My Friends
Dolls
Spell of the Yukon
The Rhymes of the Restless Ones

Frank Dempster ShermanClassic Cowboy Poetry
A Prayer

Rhoda Sivell Classic Cowboy Poetry
The Broncho Buster 
Come with Me to the Old Range 
The Cow-Girl
The Motherless Calf 
The Old Saskatchewan 
Our Last Ride 
The Range Call
Voices from The Range 
Happy Days
They Keep A-Stealing on You in the Night

Harry StephensClassic Cowboy Poetry
Night-Herding Song

N. Howard "Jack" Thorp Classic Cowboy Poetry
Little Joe, The Wrangler
What's Become of the Punchers?
The Cowboys New Year Dance  
My Little Brown Mule
Old Paint
Speckles

Chopo

John Wesley
The Last Longhorn

James Whilt Classic Cowboy Poetry
Ain't it the Truth?

Owen WisterClassic Cowboy Poetry
Ten Thousand Cattle Straying (Dead Broke)

 


 

Honored Guests

Trey Allen
What It Is  

No Loop Limit Or Rope-O-matic
You Ain't Sittin' Bull  

Darrell Arnold
Summer Sky
Gettin' Acquainted
Cowboy Home
Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'
So Sad the Sensitive Artist

Sally Harper Bates
Arizona Winds

Mixed Blessings
From an Old Ranch Wife
Ridin' Drag  
For My Friends, Larry & Andrea (for Larry and Andrea McWhorter)
What a Ride We've Had!!
A Leap of Faith
They're Comin' in to Water

J. W. Beeson
 Rosie's Eagle
Last of a Breed
The Teacher
Nevada Blue Memories
The Time Machine
The Bear Trap

Virginia Bennett
Home....again
Superstitions
Addressing Paul, stocked and pilloried, at a ceremony
 of public humiliation (have you ever heard of "private 
humiliation?"), Elko, 2003
for Paul Zarzyski 
We Are The Poets
Lookin' for Cows, Fawn Creek, 1993
Joelle Smith

El Fuego
The Lion

Baxter Black
The Buckskin Mare
Good Bye, Old Man
Legacy of the Rodeo Man

Brian Brannon
The Guide
Of Leather, Hemp and Wood
Phantoms of the Forbidden
Shovel Pass

Hyper Hornets and Hoppin' Horses
Angels A-Hossback
Crossing the Prophet

Darin Brookman
Some Men
The Gather
Instinct
Goldie

Jerry Brooks
First at the Face

JV Brummels
Bones
Flat Earthers
Long Shadows
Slant of Light

Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)
The Big Spread
Cowboy Goes A'Courtin'
Dancing with Dad
Dining Out
He Said, "They'll Know Who I Am"
Legacy of Levi's
Maverick Love Affair
The Roan and the Pontiac
Sad Day for Trail Dust a tribute to Mason Coggin

Tomboy
Old Hank Morgan's Place in Jean Prescott feature
The Other Mother

Duct Tape and Balin' Wire
Morning in the High Hills
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve

Les Buffham
The Belle of the Cowboy's Ball
Sayin' Goodbye
Pain-Away
The Hour Before Dawn
A Cowboy Callin'
The Sermon
Cowboy From the Rockies
Driftin' with a Song

Wet 'n Wishin'
Three Days and Forty Fires
Spin That Pony

Ellie Corrigan
Satan Stallion
Pards
Listening for the Chains

Doris Daley
A Christmas Prayer
Bones
Hands
Answering Machine
Pierre
A Letter to Mr. Russell
100 Years From Now
One Good Horse
All My Trails
Average Girl
Mr. No Regrets

Frank Daniel
The First Buck
I'm the Man
Cobb and Co.

Stephanie Davis
Baling Twine
Goodnight Little Cowpup

Trail's End Theme Song

Robert Dennis
Horse Trade
The Gift
Manuel Coy
Night Sport
The Quest
Green and White
Bringing Home Christmas

Specters
At His Own Pace
Cowboy Poets?

John Dofflemyer
Near Mote, Nevada
Bull Pen
Home
John Cutler's Cowboys
Morning Pause

Ray Doyle
The Emigrant Trail
The Jewel
The Jigger Boss

Bette Wolf Duncan
Shaney Ridge
Sacrifice Cliff
A Dying Cowboy's Prayer
He'll Make a Cowboy Yet
Empty-Cradle Sad
Cattle Country Trilogy
Westward Ho, Their Wagons Rolled
My Pretty Patch of Green

Flowers for Annie
The Old Man Was a Cowboy
Heading Home  
8 Seconds From Glory

The Blue Ribbon Words Of The Blue Ribbon Man a tribute to Rod Nichols
Field of Dreams
Goin' for Broke
Cowboys Don't Cry
The Red Lodge Rodeo
The Men From Way Out West—A Different Breed!
Rainbows on the Brain

Elizabeth Ebert
Cowboy Courtin' Time
Spring Thaw
He Talked of Montana
Bringing Along a Spare
Leading a Spare
Ode to Tofu

Jim Fish
Pancho
The Ride
Heritage

Michael Fleming (New West)
The Rodeo Nobody Knows
Sometimes This Old Cowboy Gets the Blues

Fair Winds and Gentle Seas

Dennis Gaines
A Saddle and a Dream
The Journey of Three-Fingered Jake
A Life Well Lived
The Spandex Cowboy
The Undisputed, Heavyweight, Calf-Rasslin' Champeen of the World
Song of the Brasada

Lies (prose)

Lloyd M. Gerber
Cattle Fever
It's a Matter of Taste

They Rode for the Brand
 

Janice Gilbertson
I Knew That
Line Dance Lesson
How Can We Lose?
Weather Report
Miracle in the Night
The Nighthawk's Dance
Freedom Ride
Night Time's Promise
Show Girl

The Right Way
Giving Into Lonesome
Grandstanding
Lesson Days
The Porch Light
The Wild Side of the Fence

Bring 'em Home Slow
Sometimes, in the Lucias
Weather Report
The Pasture of Frogs

Maybe It's Your Callin'
The Rough Stock Rider's Kid
Headin' Out
My List...

Peggy Godfrey
Elko Reflections
Country Graft
Old Vogal
Perfect Wife

DW Groethe
There's a Silence
 Fifty a Day
The Fence
A Charlie Creek Christmas
The Great Hay Yard Assault of '04 or The Sad State of Cowboy Job Security
The Funeral
Under the Dim and Nodding Sky
Bent
One for the Workin' Cowboy
That Ol' Red, White and Blue
Yearlin' Heifers
Out My Window
Just Like A Chinook  
The Bunny Poem
Midnight, Somewheres in August
The Carhartt Song

Pens and Pockets
A Cowboy's Education
My Father's Horses
Let Me Tell You 'Bout Weanin'
'Twas a Fright Before Christmas or Snake Eye Saves the Day
When There's Frost Upon the Ponies
Rain
Lady Luck Takes a Break
Star Cavvy
Two Cowpokes and a Tamper
Over Yonder


Change on the Range
The Horse Trade
The Bear Tale
Ode to My Lady, My Wife

Audrey Hankins
The Waters
First Light
A Roast and a Pot of Beans
His Signature
Christmas at the Ranch

Paul Harris
Chaps and Braids
I've Been Doing This
Rancher's Daughter

Paul Harwitz
I Saw an Angel Out on the Range
Cooking Buffalo with Julia
Cowboy Troy
A Cowpoke at the Opera
The High Lonesome
The Robot Rodeo

Spirit Horse

Linda Hasselstrom
Keeping an Eye Out
Hands
Rancher Roulette

Andy Hedges
Texas Braggin'
City Boys
The Glitterbus with Andy Wilkinson

Jeff Hildebrandt
Nadacowboy
Sermon on the Mount
Cowboy Up America
He's a Cowboy
Dust 'n Tails
The Fence Mender
Angels Aren't the Only Ones Playing Harps
A Christmas Tale
Heading Home
Cowboy Legends
Textured by Time

Angel's Mom

Debra Coppinger Hill
Common Sense, Men and Horses
Gone to the Mountains  (for T. R. Stephenson)
A Blessing in the Heat (prose) (for Larry McWhorter) 
A Place in the Heart
Spirits of Truth
Eagles in the Trees

Yvonne Hollenbeck
The Little Red Geranium

Old Folks Rodeo
The Truth About the Bra
How to Cut Taxes
Headin' 'em Home
Why Jane Left Ted
The Class Reunion
The Fiddler  
Benny's Funeral, with Pat Richardson
Nature's Church
Still Doin' Business
Queen of the Cow Towns
From My Window
Saddle Tale (in Jean Prescott feature)
My Favorite Old Guitar

Halloween Headlines
A Christmas Tale
Baloney
The Rescue Unit
Heading Home
As Birds Fly from the Nest
The Flag Out on the Ranch  
Leading a Spare
Dining Out
Bringing Home Christmas
Rancher Wannabe
Calving Time

At His Own Pace
The Making of a Cowboy
Beat By Old Hands
Branding Time
A Great Day to be a Cowboy
Sammy's Misunderstanding
I'd Like to be in Texas (When We Round Up Cows Next Spring)
Prairie Patchwork
Our Hero (for Wally Bazyn)
Bringing Home the Tree

Jess Howard
The Environment
The Ol' Cowboy
Shoein' Johnson's Pet  

Jim Hoy
Good Help
In the Days of Granville and John 

Chris Isaacs
Thanks, Grandpa 
The Dying Breed
The Wild Horse Race
The Minstrel (for Larry McWhorter)
Michael Bia

Carole Jarvis
Spellbound
The Home Ranch
Desert Cowboy's Christmas
A Style All Their Own
When the Rains Came

Dee Strickland Johnson
(see Buckshot Dot above)

Kirby Jonas
Dallas Ford
The Empty Saddle of Old Paint
The Gunfight

LeRoy Jones
The Night Before Christmas
What Does a Cowboy do For Christmas?
My Dad's Old Hat
New Cowboy
One Full Turn
The Preacher's Horse

Don Kennington
Shoeing Ol' Rivet
The Last Nail
Woman of the West
Preparation

Linda Kirkpatrick
My Cowgirl Life
Cathay Williams 
The Vaquero's Goodbye
McLaurin Massacre
The Saga of Lucy Murdock
The Christmas Story
Mary Ann's Legacy
Outlaw
(for T. R. Stephenson)
Miss Anna's Tea
Santa Claus' Sidekick
Teresita
For My Dad
A Cup Full of Mem'rys
Tribute to Larry (for Larry McWhorter)
Miss Anna's Tea
One Less Chair at the Table
When Round Up Time Comes Around
The Cuttin' Chute
Dead Man's Cave

The Ranger

Chuck Larsen
Treasures by the Hat Full
Monkey Business
Blue Cowboy Moon
Calvin' Out
The Perfect Tree
Goodbyes
Coffee House Cowboy!
The Makin' of Christmas

A Pack Rat Paradox

Ray Lashley
The Pony Express Trail  
Toot

Bob E. Lewis    1929-2001
Adapting
King of the Cowboys
The Sour Dough Crock

Deanna McCall 
The Hired Hand
Hot Iron
Old Ones
Gifts in the Hay
Feral Words
Advice
Cow Country Code
Ice Flowers

Mark McMillan
Guests!
  If I'd a
The Gold Rush Trail

Rod McQueary
Mad Jack's Dog
The Chicken Outfit
For Woody
lander evening

Wallace McRae
Boot Shoppin'
Malcolm and the Stranglers
Reincarnation

Urban Daughter


The Red Cow

Gate Session
Johnny Clare
I'll Meet You at the Throne

Larry Maurice
I Am America
Peace on Earth
For Sale By Owner...
I Wish I Could Have Seen It
It's That Time Again
She Was Always The Music
Cashbaugh Summer
Perched on Castle Peak

Damn it!

Lyn Messersmith
Outside
Scoop

Unfinished Business

Rod Miller  
A Guide to Ranching for the Politically Correct
What Goes Cowboy Up 
Cowboy Coffee
Luck (Not Exactly the Beginners Kind) 
Forecast

Feral  
Noteworthy  
Morning Glory
An Apology to Readers, Sort of, But More Like an Explanation or Maybe an Excuse
Tabula Rasa
Peace and Quiet

A Good Hand With a Rope
Haiku for a Former Rounder
Heads or Tails
Devil of Devil Creek
Long May it Wave
Mule Whisperer

Migrations
Number 16


The West That Was
Range Cow in Winter
Badger

Andy Nelson
Bovine Converging Stabismus
No Man's Land
Only a Cowboy Knows, with Don Kennington
Max's Last Ride
Just a Cowboy
Amen, But ... (prose)
Cowboy Poet
Ridin' with Jim
I Sold My Saddle
The Cat Wrangler
The Box R Cavvy
The Old Crockett Spurs
Hogzilla
Thank You for Your Support
The Worst One to Buck
Mud Season
My Shoeing Rig

Joel Nelson
Roundup Time
Scotty
On Finding Someone
While I Sleep

Here's Looking at You
Inside War

The Men Who Ride No More

Rodney Nelson
The Proposal
Dakota Fresh Air
Good Clean Fun
Up Sims Creek

Christmas on the Prairie

Christmas at Sims
ND Forecasts

Howard Norskog
The Old Cowboy's Christmas
Just an Old Saddle
The Salmon River Breaks
Doing Just Fine

Ken Overcast
Givin' a Little Back 
The Longhorn-Harley Davidson Cross
Ol' Fishhook
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer 
Montana Lullaby


Tracks that Won't Blow Out
Alibi Ike
First You Feed Your Horse
Spellbound  
January Roses


Horse Tradin'
The Cowboy Poet
Just Another Indian
The Passin' of an Era
The Thermometer

Shad Pease
The Chill
Time to Ride
Brandin' Time

Gwen Petersen
Cowboy Poetry
A Cussin' Woman
Those Damned Wire Gates
The Legacy  

Shadd Piehl
All My Relations
Rider's Lament
Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Mike Puhallo
Dog Creek, Where Our Traditions Began

The Dream Team of the Cariboo
Little White Lies
Daybreak at Twilight Ranch
Doc Mason
Cow Country Christmas Memory
Ode To Chee Witt
Elko
Scour Pills and Roses
Tales of the Cariboo Trail
Where Did All Them People Come From?
The Guy on the Radio Says It's Spring!  
The Graduate
Life's Little Mysteries
Does This Mean the Drought is Over?
Small Boys, Trains, and Outlaws
Hangin' On
Patience, Trust and A Little Luck
"If you got the money, Honey...I got the time." 
Running in the Team
 
What's It All About Charlie Brown
A New Day
 Kinda Chilly Huh?
Home on the Range

Hi Finance
Face to Face
Steep Slopes and Green Horses
Heck It Could Have Been Worse!
Springtime in the Rockies
The Daily Chicken Run
Back in the Saddle
Last Week of Summer
Some Cows Want to Come Home, Some Don't

An Uptown Affair
Never Look Back
Balancing the Books
Whinny, (From The Valley of the Wild Horses)
A First Taste of Spring!
Branding Time 2006
Off to the Rodeo!
Bad Days Make Good Stories
It Ain't Easy Being Green
A Tale of Two Roans
The Upside of Fall
A Chilcotin Halloween
Merry Procrastination?  
A New Year a New Day!
Priorities

Old Trails

Signposts Along the River
Sold!
The Turkey Roundup
My Ponies
Rumors...
Young Horses, Cool Mornings
First Snow
Cowpoke Déjà Vous
Living Green Without Even Trying!
White Bulls in the Snow

Deadman Creek, Blizzard
Wild Horse Christmas
Everywhere But Here?
Full Moon
Natural Selection

Understanding the March Hare!
The Math Don’t Work!
Turn Out Time
Burning Daylight!
G. M. O.?

First Sign of Summer!
Canada
My Four-Legged Muse
That Ol’ Dumb-Ass Feeling
Cowboy for a Day
Walk Up, Run Down!
Some Cows
What are You Doing Hiding Here When All Your Buddies are in New York?
Happy Birthday BC
Ambushed
A Crayon-Colored Santa
Spooked!
An Equine Economy
Horses Aren't That Gullible
The Highway Calls!
Soul Mates?
Canada Day 2009
Hooked
Good Day for A Duck (or Cowboy)
Roping Lessons
Eddy's Bulls
First Day of Fall Roundup
October Morning on Porcupine Ridge
Ask Not, Who Wrote This...
The Peruvian Gelding
Bug Humbugs
How To Make Money off the Cow Business
Signs of Spring

John Reedy
Buckaroo Girl

Aspen & Alpenglow
Beautiful Cubicle

Pat Richardson
Cowboy Banker

I Never
The Auction  
Ed's Cow Dog  
Stop Me
Christmas Cheer
 Benny's Cabin
The Cow Boss

Ed's Funeral  
On the Trail
Yvonne Hollenbeck
Howard Parker a Tribute 
Benny's Funeral, with Yvonne Hollenbeck
Things a Cowboy Knows, with Kip Calahan
The Evaluation

Ed in Elko
Our Song
A COWBOY (through a heifer's eyes)
Bigfoot
Morning Mist
Here's to the Cowboys

How to Make a Cowboy
Billy Baker
Jackie & Johnny
The Confession

Randy Rieman
Leaving Camp

Gary Robertson
The Cotton Patch
Ruby

Two Hours, One Day a Week

Michael Robinson
Music on the Wind
Seasons of the Cowboy
The Weaver from Hell
The Darlin' of Eastland
Buckaroo Boy of the Bronx
The Real Cowboy Checklist
Breakfast with My Horse
Yes, Ma'am.  Just Call Me Slim
The Old Stock Trailer
Windstorm of the Century
Savin' the Ranch

The Night Watch
It'll Just Have to Wait

Kent Rollins
Frugal Cowboy Meal
The Vision
Horseshoes and Heaven

Below the Rim

Bruce Roseland
Just Another Day at the Ranch
Branding Cattle
Premature Calf

Remember Me
Prairie Prayer
The Staff of Life

The Tale of Two Seasons

Sandy Seaton Sallee
Code of the West
Horse Training 101
The Wolf

Bob Schild
The Button and the Champ
Ride for Ninety-One
The Long Ride
Two of a Kind
The Cowboy, Passing of a Legend
Light the Board
Santa Comes Calvin'
Christmas 2003
Roundup on The Blackfoot
Ode to an Old Friend
Shorty
Poetic Horses
The Rustler
College Cowboy
Lockjaw Virgil
Marauder
Miserable Bill
Quick Ride

Georgie Sicking
Be Yourself
Old Bay
A Time for Remembering
To Be a Top Hand
The Spirit of Christmas

Housewife

Ann Sochat
The Coyote  
And How I'd Ride
 
Tracking the Cat
Cowboy Romance

Dave Stamey
Spin That Pony
The Circle
Come Ride With Me
Sharon Littlehawk

Red Steagall
The Fence That Me and Shorty Built

Born to This Land
The Memories in Grandmother's Trunk

Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns 
Shippin' Points 
Livin' Free
Two Cowboys
Born to Ride
The Jing-Jangs  
Kenneth
A Size-able Quandry  
Wonderin'
Our Jack  
Surprise!!  
Christmas Way Out West
Charlie (for Charlie Hunt)
The Reason for Dead Deer
Grampaw's Elf
Our Dear Friend Homer
Rain
Born to Ride (for Mattie Goff Newcombe)
Fiddleback Headquarters

Cowboy Heroes
When Creaky Spawns Cranky

Gail Steiger
A Cowboy's Prayer


Fog from the Hills
The Bible and the Pistol
Never Get Old Man
The Onion and the Rat
Ten Thousand Years
Warrior's Lament  

Doc Stovall
Mountain Camp
Reflections of an Irish Cowboy
Epitaph
A Cowboy Knows, with Charles Williams
All Trails Lead Home - Texas Version, with Charles Williams

Jeff Streeby
Also see Sunday Creek here
The Wild Crew
Scatter the Mare
Learnin' to Rope
Johnny Has Gone for a Cowboy
John Siversten the Farrier's Horse  
Horses  
The Ghost of Christmas Past

Bud Strom
Race on the Wind
Dry Lightning
Montana Angels

Colen Sweeten
Grandpa's Passing 
Grandpa Goes to Town
My Old Hat
Daddy's Bells
Unseen Helper
The Philosopher
This Old Barn
Famous -- Almost
Elko
Elko (2)
Trickle Down
Afterglow in Elko
The Golden Years
Ethie Corrigan
Tip Your Hat

Flying Cowboy

Mick Vernon
Barns
Still Saddled
Trails

Melvin L. Whipple
Old Time Bronc Rider
Down on the Ground and Walkin'

Underneath Hidden Canyon Rim


Paul Zarzyski

Ain't No Life After Rodeo
The Bucking Horse Moon

The Day the War Began

Luck of the Draw

The Meaning of Intimacy


 

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