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 |
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| 3402 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 52 | Carey Holbrook | Fishing Time | Fishing time and a drowsy day. | fishing, leisure, store |
| 3403 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 52 | Carey Holbrook | Pecos Town | A sparkling day of gold and rose. | fishing |
| 3404 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 53 | Carey Holbrook | Wanderlust | I'd like to take the open road. | wanderlust, travel |
| 3405 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 54 | Margaret Page Hood | Desert Lover | Heat! | desert, heat, space |
| 3406 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 54 | Margaret Page Hood | Spring Dusk in Old Mesilla | A woman, old and brown, her head wrapped nunwise. | earth, soil, ground, evening, sunset |
| 3407 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 55 | Margaret Page Hood | The Homestead Rose | No, I didn't grieve so much. | leaving, home, house, rose, flowers |
| 3408 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 56 | Margaret Page Hood | Adobe | Pleasant to live in a house of earth. | adobe, house, earth, burial |
| 3409 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 57 | Margaret Page Hood | New Mexico Fragments | Wind -- sand! | sand, wind, desert, New Mexico |
| 3410 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 58 | Margaret Page Hood | Old Mesilla | Beneath the glowing turquoise of the summer skies. | town, past, history |
| 3411 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 59 | Margaret Page Hood | Cuidad Juarez | Blind beggar on a dusty road. | city, beggar |
| 3412 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 60 | Gentry Keith | Sierra Manzano | For some good reason, vague, but sure. | sea, ancient history, God, belief, mountains, creation, destruction |
| 3413 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 61 | Eugene B. Kuntz | Rio Ruidoso | The Noisy River long ago `twas named. | river, water, stones, nature |
| 3414 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 62 | Eugene B. Kuntz | Jim White, Cavern-Explorer | It was he who delved the depth, and found. | explorer, cave, Carlsbad Cavern, bravery |
| 3415 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 63 | Eugene B. Kuntz | Where Pearlflecked Waters Tumble | Where pearl flecked waters tumble down the fretted walls. | water, river, bird, nature |
| 3416 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 65 | Fred Lambert | The Thunder Bird | Tom-tom-tom-tom-tom-tom-tom! | Pueblo, gods, thunder, bird, Taos, rain |
| 3417 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 66 | Fred Lambert | The Legend | Way up high in the mountain's snow. | thunder, bird, rain, Indian, legend, gods, spirits, Taos, lightning, dry, water, ancient history |
| 3418 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 68 | Fred Lambert | L' Envoi | Tom-tom-tom-tom-tom-tom-tom! | Indians, Pueblo |
| 3419 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 68 | Fred Lambert | The Santa Fe Trail | Trail of a continent, tell us your story. | adventure, trail, past, history, Santa Fe |
| 3420 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 70 | Henry H. Lawrence | The Zuni Sun | A circle and the bars of living light. | Zuni, Indians, sun, symbol, past |
| 3421 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 70 | Henry H. Lawrence | Zuni Cliff Houses | Remote, in a lost canyon, near the sky. | cliff dwelling, ancient history, Zuni, Indians, kiva |
| 3422 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 71 | Henry H. Lawrence | Coronado | His spirit roams amid these storied hills. | New Mexico, Spaniards, sunset, gold |
| 3423 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 71 | Henry H. Lawrence | The Fabled City of Cibola | The city of Cibola lives it seems. | gold, Spaniards, sunset |
| 3424 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 72 | Henry H. Lawrence | Santa Fe | The ghosts of warriors haunt your crooked streets. | past, city, Santa Fe |
| 3425 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 72 | Henry H. Lawrence | Carlsbad Cavern | Titanic miracle of nature's loom. | cave, Carlsbad, stone, beauty, nature |
| 3426 | New Mexico in Verse | William Felter and John L. McCarty | FC 11 F-01 | 73 | Henry H. Lawrence | White Sands | The sighing wind makes music in these sands. | sand, wind, stone, monument |