Singers and Songwriters
Singin' Sam Agins
Star Boarder
Dude Roundup
Rancher's WidowT. J. Casey
The Story of the Cowboy
The Corral
Spook
Old Friend
In the Cowboy Hall of Fame
The Wagon Wreck
Ridin' Out
Cowboy Christmas Time
The American CowboyPatty Clayton
Ben and Ole's Land
The Vaquero and MeDean Cook
Grubline Carol
Flying Bill's Ride
A Good Ride
The New Cowboy's LamentStephanie Davis
Baling Twine
Goodnight Little CowpupBodie Dominquez
Fifty's Just a Number
A Cowboy's Heaven
Merry ChristmasWill Dudley
Dreams of Long Ago
A Cowboy Farewell (with Diane Tribitt)Don Edwards
Minstrel of the Range
The Ballad of Jack ThorpRichard Elloyan
The Series
The Windmill Man
The Coffee Shop
Favorite PhotographJuni Fisher
I Will Miss Ireland Forever
Chinaman Jack
The Same River
Goodnight Good Pony (for Joelle Smith)Michael Fleming (New West)
The Rodeo Nobody Knows
Sometimes This Old Cowboy Gets the BluesBelinda Gail
Mail Order Bride
Horse Corral Meadow
She is a CowgirlTammy Gislason
In The Wind
Snow
The Senorita's Song
The Ghost Rider
A Cowgirl's PrayerDW 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
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
RainKerry Grombacher
Along the John Day River
An Old Cowboy Growing Older
Never Come Again
Who Set This Fire?Wylie Gustafson (Wylie and the Wild West)
Paradise
The Gather
Yodeling Fool
Room to Roam
A Good One
Where Horses are Heroes
16 HandsR. W. Hampton
Born to be a Cowboy
Donnie Catch a Horse
For the Freedom
The Master's in EverythingBrenn Hill
Pickup Truck Café
Call You Cowboy
The Store
What A Man's Got To DoHarold Hill
San Antonio Sweetheart
Cowboy Up
Little Cowgirl GoodnightFletcher Jowers
When The Roses Bloom Next Spring
Ol Snake
A Memory of JimJohnny Kendrick
Echoes of the Trail
Trail City
Dear Allison
School Work
Wild Prairie Rose
Keener Than a Briar
Ozark RocksPeggy Malone
Singin' A Cowboy Song
Appaloosa Running Through my Mind
My Cheyenne CowboyBruce Matley
The Ranch that I Can't SeeCurly Jim Musgrave
The General Store
(Big Enough to Wear) My Daddy's Hat
Thanks (The Old Cowboy's Prayer)
The Heritage
Cowboy in a Hardhat
Curly's Song
Father to Father
Only a Cowboy Knows, with Belinda Gail
Prairie Silent NightKen Overcast
Givin' a Little Back
The Longhorn-Harley Davidson Cross
Montana Lullaby
Ol' Fishhook
A Cowboy's Christmas PrayerBob Petermann
Old Cowboy Waltz
Ranching's Final StandJean Prescott
Fair Blows the Wind with Gary Prescott
Saddle Tale with Yvonne Hollenbeck
Old Hank Morgan's Place with Dee Strickland Johnson
Sweethearts in Carhartts special featureJohn Reedy
Buckaroo Girl
Aspen & Alpenglow
Beautiful CubicleRed Steagall
The Fence That Me and Shorty Built
Born to This Land
The Memories in Grandmother's TrunkBethany Zill
Where Roots Run Deep
Continuing Features (Poetry, Prose, News, and more)
Cowboy Jam Session
Jeri Dobrowski
(monthly column)
Western Air
Rick Huff
(quarterly column)
American Life in Poetry
Ted Kooser, U. S. Poet Laureate
(column)
Sunday Creek
Jeff Streeby
(poetry)Most recent additions below, see entire contents here:
Everett Hooker (1849-1880)
Robert Ephraim Steele (1849-1910)
Huge Murphy (1844-1883)
Ed Henson (1887-1940)
Seamus MacLeod (1811-1864)
From My Home on the Prairie
Yvonne Hollenbeck
(occasional column)
Picture the West
Updated weekly: visitors' vintage and contemporary
photos of the rural West, (send yours)
BAR-D Rope Burns Column
Our bi-monthly poetry column in Rope Burns
Way Back at the Ranch
A quarterly column about classic cowboy poetry in Cowboy Troubadour
Poets and Songwriters
A bi-monthly column about poems and songs in the Backforty Bunkhouse newsletter
See a list of all features here ...
Poetry and lyrics in Special Features:
Ed Brown
Larry McWhorter, Cowboy, Too EarlyKip Calahan
Thank You for Your Support, with Andy Nelson
Things a Cowboy Knows, with Pat RichardsonArthur J. Cantin
I Don't Want to Just SurviveJanice Coggin
The RideMason Coggin
We Mine CopperCardiac Cowboys
Chris Isaacs, Sunny Hancock, Jesse SmithJohn C. Dofflemyer
Near Mote, NevadaElizabeth Ebert
For Howard for Howard ParkerA. W. Erwin
DistractionsPeggy Godfrey
Elko Reflections
(in introduction to Virginia Bennett's Cowboy Poetry, The Reunion)Kathy Herndon
Joelle's Gifts for Joelle SmithAlice Corbin Henderson
Ten Thousand Texas RangersJim Jones
All My Trails Lead Home with Rick Huff
Only a Cowboy Knows with Rick HuffWaddie Mitchell
Story with a Moral
Recipe for a Cowboy Poet (about Chris Isaacs)
Christmas Waltz
From "And As I Rode Out on the Morning":
Anthem
One
A PonderLorraine Rawls
Through Her Eyes for Joelle SmithJohnie Schneider
The Black BeautyClara Smith
Memories for Joelle SmithAndy Wilkinson
His Stubborn Soul for Buck Ramsey
Scattering Cowboy Ashes for Buck Ramsey
Buck Ramsey (two articles)Jary D. Winstead
Through Rudy's Eyes for Joelle Smith
More Poetry Special Features
Art Spur
Contemporary Western art and photography selections serve as poets' inspirationsBAR-D Rope Burns Column
Our bi-monthly poetry column in Rope BurnsBAR-D Cowboy Troubadour Column
"Way Back at the Ranch," a bi-monthly column about classic cowboy poetry in Cowboy TroubadourPoets and Songwriters
A monthly column about poems and songs in the Backforty Bunkhouse newsletter
There are these special collections, also added to regularly:
and other special collections, listed here.
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