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 Last| ID | Book Title | Composer | Index | Pages | Author | Poem Title | First Lines | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3277 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 116 | Tom Ellinwood | Border Music | He knows the different cowboy songs. | whistling, music, song | |
| 3278 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 117 | Tom Ellinwood | Before Refrigeration | He didn't have a cooler, then. | adobe, heat, summer, temperature | |
| 3279 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 118 | Tom Ellinwood | Saddle Sandwiches | There's some folks pack a lunch box, and. | jerky, food, water, lunch | |
| 3280 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 119 | Tom Ellinwood | The Hidden Menu | Those barren hills look hostile to. | food, desert | |
| 3281 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 120 | Tom Ellinwood | The Pale Copy | The holiday fiestas he. | fiesta, celebration, holiday | |
| 3282 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 121 | Tom Ellinwood | The Spoil Sport | Now rodeo's a manly sport. | rodeo | |
| 3283 | More Cow Country | FC 11 E-05 | 124 | Tom Ellinwood | The Non-Lookers | The mountain men all roamed around. | signs, map, directions | |
| 3284 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 16 | Livingston Montgomery | The Uinta Song (partial) | On the 20th of September. | Utah, freighting, wagon |
| 3285 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 18 | Ellis Robison | I Wouldn't Be a Puncher Man | I thought I'd be a puncher man. | punchers, cow punching, starvation, cattle |
| 3286 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 22 | Judge Fred Keller | Blue Mountain | My home it was in Texas. | occupation, Utah, mountain, law, LC brand, Mormon |
| 3287 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 28 | Hans Peter Iverson | Hans Peter Iverson's Life History in Verse | My life events I tell in short. | migration, life, settle, Dixie, Utah, Denmark, Mormon, God, belief, mission |
| 3288 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 32 | Melvin L. "Meb" Whipple | Open Range | I was born in Utah, many long years have come and gone. | Utah, Arizona, life, family, mother, father, child, cattle |
| 3289 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 34 | Melvin L. "Meb" Whipple | How They Lived | The people that used to live out in the West. | Utah, lifestyle, dance, life, west |
| 3290 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 36 | Melvin L. "Meb" Whipple | The Bob-Tailed Steer | It was back in1940, 28 long years have past. | ranch, father, partner, naming, occupation, change |
| 3291 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 42 | Yula Sue Hunting | Dear Sirs | Out of all the headaches, hard work, taxes and expense. | taxes, government, poverty, IRS, money, survival, food, family |
| 3292 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 43 | Yula Sue Hunting | A Fall | Oh, I have heard stories and I know you have too. | past, present, horses, cowboys, occupation, change |
| 3293 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 46 | Frank A. Brewer | Old Horse | Old horse your days are numbered. | horse, aging, lame, devotion, cow pony, protection |
| 3294 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 48 | Frank Brewer | The Legion of the Lost | They come from every walk in life. | death, father, daughter, baby, suicide, stranger, pity, sorrow, depression, marriage, life story |
| 3295 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 52 | F. Allan Brewer | Modern Cowboy | I have lived a wild life and I've earned what I've spent. | occupation, cowboying, cattlemen, work, pay, winter, snow, cattle, life |
| 3296 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 53 | F. Allan Brewer | A Most Colorful Life | When I was a young man my skin was well browned. | cowboying, rope, braid, change, life, hardship, progress, aging, work, pickup, contentedness |
| 3297 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 55 | F.A. Brewer and F.B. Steiner | The Devil's Circle | I must have been sick as a dog last night. | fence, fencing, barbed wire, Hell, Satan, work |
| 3298 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 58 | Frances B. Steiner | The One That Got Away | For years Dad lived on Bitter Creek. | father, accident, trapped, leg, boot, horse, fall, pinned, caught, foot, survival |
| 3299 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 60 | Frances Brewer Steiner | Roundup Time on the Mountain | Each fall they rode the summer range to gather up the steers. | meat, cattle, beef, sharing, roundup, food |
| 3300 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 72 | Finley H. Bayles | The Day Me and Strawberry Fell | Old Strawb was a fair lookin' cowhorse. | cow pony, fall, accident, survival, hurt, positive, strength, dedication |
| 3301 | Cowboy Poetry from Utah | Carol A. Edison | FC 11 E-06 | 76 | Finley H. Bayles | Outlaw Country | The cabin was silent and lonely, in a deserted glade it stood. | cabin, skunk, sleep, wildlife |