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.
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Poetry table.
First Previous Next LastID | Book Title | Composer | Index | Pages | Author | Poem Title | First Lines | Keywords |
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23563 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 30 | Georgie Connell Sicking | R.C.Q. | There are so darned many initials, That came out since the war. It keeps a feller figurin' what they mean. As there is always some that he ain't heard before. | ||
23564 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 32 | Georgie Connell Sicking | I Guess It Is Religion | There is bound to be somebody, somewhere, That watches over people like me. If there wasn't somebody somewhere, I think in a cold grave I'd be. | ||
23565 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 33 | Georgie Connell Sicking | A Few Cowboy Rules | Be patient with a green colt, Be kind to a child. If you're handlin' thin cattle, Don't try to get wild. | ||
23566 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 35 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Old Bay | Today I found a picture, that I had put away, Of a quarterhorse with a strip in his face, that I called Old Bay. | ||
23567 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 38 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Remember | When the north wind blows high on the mountain, and an old cow bawls down below, Think of me sometimes, old pardner, as a friend you used to know. | ||
23568 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 41 | Georgie Connell Sicking | The Barrel Racer | You've been all day round the rodeo, with your heart beating steady, When the announcer yells out, "Barrel Racers get ready!" | ||
23569 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 43 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Schurz | Out in old Nevada, where the Walker River flows, From out of the high Sierras, feeding from its snows. | ||
23570 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 46 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Jake | Catch your horse and get him saddled, Hours before the dawn. Many miles to ride before sundown, The spring roundup is on. | ||
23571 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 49 | Georgie Connell Sicking | The Lonesome Ones | God, please help the lonesome ones, who walk upon your earth, They travel near, they travel far, not knowing their real worth. | ||
23572 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 50 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Loco And Liquor | I've seen drought, depression, and fire-swept rangeland, in this life of mine, But the worst I ever did see, is horses crazed by loco, or cowboys drunk on wine. | ||
23573 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 52 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Gamblin' | Been thinkin' 'bout Nevada, with her sky so big and blue, The people that live here, and the gamblin' that they do. | ||
23574 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 54 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Going Back | Crags and rocks and rattlesnakes, And hotly blazing sun, Mesquite, catclaw and cactus, Cattle on the run. | ||
23575 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 56 | Georgie Connell Sicking | A Time For Remembering | The wind howls round my cabin tonight, gosh, but its gettn' cold, A storm comin' in on the wings of the wind, joints say I'm getting' old. | ||
23576 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 57 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Nevada | Some folks think of Nevada. As all gamblin' halls and lights, As a crazy kind of livin', Of sleepin' days and livin' nights. | ||
23577 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 59 | Georgie Connell Sicking | On That Other Range | This old cowboy like many others, He just had to go, To that other range up yonder, While we stay here below. | ||
23578 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 61 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Mahone Camp | Did you ever stay in a cow camp, When the snow was fallin' down, Pilin' up on snowbanks, That have covered all the ground? | ||
23579 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 62 | Georgie Connell Sicking | October 1945 | There is another good cowboy gone, From the O.R.O. range. I guess it was just his tim eto go, So he made the change. | ||
23580 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 63 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Nevada's Subtle Beauty | Did you ever see a dust train, just weavin' and a'windin' Made by a car or pickup, goin' across an open valley, To a ranch or mine location, many miles from town? | ||
23581 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 65 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Be Yourself | When I was young and foolish, The woman said to me, "Take off those spurs and comb your hair, If a lady you will be." | ||
23582 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 67 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Country Rewards | You ask me why I love this way of life, Never thought much about it. I think that if I moved to town, I would sure die without it. | ||
23583 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 68 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Blood Sweat And Tears | Blood, sweat and tears, Some folks just don't understand, Just what it takes sometimes, To become owners of this land. | ||
23584 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 70 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Believe It | Stranged you have asked me, What inspires a cowboy poem. It could be a way of preserving, Memories of a well loved home. | ||
23585 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 71 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Back Roads | There is a place in Arizona, Stays forever in my mind, Beneath lofty Mahon Mountain where, A pack trail weaves and winds. | ||
23586 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 73 | Georgie Connell Sicking | The Spirit Of Christmas | We were two kids in a cow camp, Christmas drawin near. Not much food, no moeny to spend, The way ahead was drear. | ||
23587 | Just More Thinking | FC 11 S-69 | 74 | Georgie Connell Sicking | Qui-Ui | Last week we heard from Washington D.C., And it seems their latest wish, Is to dry up our fields and pastures, To protect the Qui-Ui fish. |