FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
| Date of Items: | 1890-present | Register Prepared by: | Randy Williams and Susan Gross, April 2004 |
| Register Updated by: | Randy Williams, 23 December 2009 |
| Excel database transfered to MYSQL and uploaded (replacing PHP data): | Colin Jackson, Fall 2010 |
| MYSQL database updated: | Randy Williams, January 2012 |
| Linear Feet: | 20 |
Historical Note & Provenance
Folk Coll 11 is Utah State University's cowboy poetry collection. The collection, originally created by a generation donation by the L. J. and Mary Skaggs Foundation, includes books gathered during a fieldwork project in the early 1980s to document cowboy poetry in the U.S. west (see Folk Coll 11f). From this important fieldwork project came the impetus for the first Cowboy Poetry Gathering held in January 1985 in Elko, Nevada. Since that time, each January, the Fife Folklore Archives staff take the collection and Access database (that details each book, poem, author, first line and key words), to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering for offsite use. Through University purchases and generation donations from poets and collectors, this collection continues to grow.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 20 linear feet of books on cowboy poetry, including press and self published works. The collection can be accessed through USU Libraries online catalog.
As well, poem titles and keywords found in each book in the collection are included in the database below. To use, type in the search term. Tip: Try and use an uncommon
word from the poem to ensure less "hits." For instance, if you enter "boots" you will get many hits; but if you enter "bones" you will most liley get fewer "hits" or poems and find the item you seek faster.
To return to the search page, click "home" at the bottom of the page.
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Poetry table.
First Previous Next Last| ID | Book Title | Composer | Index | Pages | Author | Poem Title | First Lines | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2127 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 39 | William Lawrence Chittenden | A Summer Girl | She was queen of the hotel veranda. | attraction, beauty, charm, romance, broken heart | |
| 2128 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 40 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Beyond the Harbor Bar | Since thou must sail the seas of life. | peace, truth, kindness, doubt, ideals | |
| 2129 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 41 | William Lawrence Chittenden | The Twinkle of Her Eyes | Beneath dark curving lashes. | woman, lady, beauty, love, affection | |
| 2130 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 42 | William Lawrence Chittenden | To Dives | Then what of your silver and gold or estate. | ideals, wealth, values | |
| 2131 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 42 | William Lawrence Chittenden | An April Song -- To Alice | Thy world is bright, fair Alice. | youth, beauty, love, age, pride, | |
| 2132 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 44 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Neptune's Steeds | Hark to the wild nor'easter. | Storm King, sea, power of water, wild sea, seaman, sailor, longing, death | |
| 2133 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 46 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Acrostic -- Easter Blossoms | Alice is a rosebud, a blossom on life's sea. | youth, beauty, women, love, idol, dreams | |
| 2134 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 46 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Evening Zephyrs | Far, far away o'er the western horizon. | nature, sea, ocean, hope, trouble, longing, past, future | |
| 2135 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 48 | William Lawrence Chittenden | The Ranchman's Song | Afar from the tumult and turmoil of fashion. | solitude, nature, prairie, hardship, pleasure | |
| 2136 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 49 | William Lawrence Chittenden | A Message | Pretty blossom on the prairies, where the breezes play. | beauty, love, longing, | |
| 2137 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 50 | William Lawrence Chittenden | A King's Daughter | She is pretty as a picture. | woman, idol, characteristics, attitude | |
| 2138 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 51 | William Lawrence Chittenden | To May in Paris | She's a lovely fairy fay, is my pensive Cousin May. | woman, thoughtful, beauty, France, romance | |
| 2139 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 52 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Echoes | On the lonely tawny prairie. | landscape, past, thoughts | |
| 2140 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 53 | William Lawrence Chittenden | The Old Homestead | Enshrined in my heart is an old-fashioned homestead. | home, warmth, sea, past, memories, fate | |
| 2141 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 54 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Declined | "Come back, dear Tom," she wrote to say. | wedding, change of mind, part | |
| 2142 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 55 | William Lawrence Chittenden | To a Coquette | Her wit is like some diamond bright. | love, beauty, charm, caution | |
| 2143 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 56 | William Lawrence Chittenden | The Old Texan in New York | Huh! Sal, this life won't suit me. | city life, fast life, homesick, Yankee husband, human roundup, suffocate, longing for nature | |
| 2144 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 57 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Man | Man lives and dies! What more know we? | youth, old-age, mortality | |
| 2145 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 58 | William Lawrence Chittenden | That Little Boy | His merry voice is silent now. | love, child, death, sadness, mourning | |
| 2146 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 59 | William Lawrence Chittenden | A Serenade | Dear lovely lady, dream no more. | love song, sea, longing | |
| 2147 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 60 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Texas | I crave not for her cities. | prairie, open range, love for nature, freedom, sea, solitude | |
| 2148 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 63 | William Lawrence Chittenden | The Yachtsman's Song | Ho, comrades! Up anchor! | sea, water, sail, sailboat, wind | |
| 2149 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 64 | William Lawrence Chittenden | Would N't You? | I met her at dusk 'midst the clover. | woman, beauty, love, lover, kisses, romance | |
| 2150 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 65 | William Lawrence Chittenden | The Parson Pickax Gray | In ole days in Californy, in the yar uv forty-nine. | likker, liquor, alcohol, fun, sinner, preacher, religion, devil, Judgment Day | |
| 2151 | Ranch Verses | FC 11 C-09 | 69 | William Lawrence Chittenden | A San Antonio Memory | In old San Antonio city. | Senorita, Gulf of Mexico, hacienda, Eden, memories, song, sadness, loss |