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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2577 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 23 | Austin Corcoran | Romance of a Cowboy | You told me you loved me. | love, love betrayed, lying, lie | |
| 2578 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 24 | Austin Corcoran | Heritage | Eve can boast, more so than most. | Eve, women | |
| 2579 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 24 | Austin Corcoran | Ridin' Legs | It's a matter of record and also statistics. | bowed legs, male, female, bowlegged | |
| 2580 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 25 | Austin Corcoran | The Man by the Side of the Road | I came one day to the end of the road. | charity, Bible, help, cheer | |
| 2581 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 26 | Austin Corcoran | Alone | The sun was just awaking. | sadness, grief, love lost, loneliness | |
| 2582 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 27 | Austin Corcoran | Just Something | It isn't the set of the saddle. | hat | |
| 2583 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 28 | Austin Corcoran | You and the Old Violin | We've missed you a lot, dear Daddy. | father, child, violin, memories, dad | |
| 2584 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 30 | Austin Corcoran | The Lonely Room | The big, bare walls of this lonely room. | painting, picture | |
| 2585 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 30 | Austin Corcoran | Our Fellow Man | Another year has passed us by. | time, fellow man | |
| 2586 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 31 | Austin Corcoran | To Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Artist | Send me a bit of the sky light, Russ. | Charlie Russell, Charles M. Russell, art, painting | |
| 2587 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 32 | Austin Corcoran | The Weather Man | It's raining like hell out of doors. | rain, weather, weatherman | |
| 2588 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 33 | Austin Corcoran | War Paint | This morning when the `larm went off. | clothing | |
| 2589 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 34 | Austin Corcoran | Song of the Pills | There are pills that make you happy. | pills, medications | |
| 2590 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 35 | Austin Corcoran | Come and Get It | The rain spatters hard on the sagebrush. | rain, storm, chuck, grub, food, foodways | |
| 2591 | Hidden Trails | FC 11 C-21 | 36 | Austin Corcoran | Adios! | When the last old long-horned cow is shipped. | goodbye, longhorn | |
| 2592 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 5 | Bob Christensen | Rancher's Revenge | We'd worked all day a-branding calves. | beef, government, bureaucrat, Washington, D.C., humor | |
| 2593 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 9 | Bob Christensen | Salesman's Relief | For half my life I've traveled. | feed salesman, McDonald's, restroom, bathroom, toilet, pumpkin pie, humor | |
| 2594 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 13 | Bob Christensen | A Long Dry Winter | The Wagon Train ground to a stop. | wagon train, turnips, winter, beer, humor | |
| 2595 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 17 | Bob Christensen | The Square Dance | They took me to a square dance. | square dance, fat gal, sweat, compliment, humor | |
| 2596 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 20 | Bob Christensen | Pardners | Two buckaroos, real pardners true. | mountain lion, stray, chase, humor | |
| 2597 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 51 | Bob Christensen | Cowboy In Paradise | This old boy from Oklahoma. | Hawaii, beach, swimming suit, potato, humor | |
| 2598 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 48 | Bob Christensen | The Helpmate | "I've always stood right by his side." | marriage, wife, hard times, humor | |
| 2599 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 45 | Bob Christensen | Reach Out and Touch Somebody | I once heard of a couple. | parson, parish, telephone, humor | |
| 2600 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 41 | Bob Christensen | The Experts from the East | Now here's an ethnic story. | outfitter, backpacking, grizzly bear, Czech, humor | |
| 2601 | A Feedbag of Cowboy Poetry | FC 11 C-22 | 38 | Bob Christensen | The Bachelor Gal | We'd been out selling in Montana. | Montana, cattle feed, selling, inheritance, humor |