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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4602 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 56 | Chuck Haas | Plum' Satisfied | Oh, they call me a drifter...a rambling' cowboy. | Arizona, home, wife, settle, settling, cowboy, satisfaction | |
| 4603 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 54 | Chuck Haas | Wait `Til T'Morrer | A ill's caff romped wild an' free. | calf, branding, cow, roundup, roping, humor | |
| 4604 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 53 | Chuck Haas | Shor's Hell | Th' winter snows war light an' few. | seasons, food, water, draught, drouth, Arizona | |
| 4605 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 52 | Chuck Haas | Saddle-Dreams | When th' range all around me is sleepin'. | night herding, girl friend, women, female, wife, love, courtship, dream, dreams | |
| 4606 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 51 | Chuck Haas | Th' Hills o' Arizony | Boys, I've rambled fur an' fancy. | Arizona, morning, nature, beauty | |
| 4607 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 50 | Chuck Haas | Hassayampa Sam | Why shor, I'm Hassayampa Sam! | Arizona, water, drink, liquor, alcohol, river | |
| 4608 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 49 | Chuck Haas | Hell's Belles | We crossed trails one mornin', Slim Wiley an' me. | women, female, gender | |
| 4609 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 48 | Chuck Haas | I' Druther | I'druther laze `top a friendly hill. | I'd rather, druther, work, occupation, occupational lore, crowds, town, land, range, job, preference | |
| 4610 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 57 | Chuck Haas | Poco Pete's Pe'an | I mind, oncet Poco Pete an' me. | horses, automobiles, cars, preference, travel | |
| 4611 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 58 | Chuck Haas | Gone | Dixie, gal, y'ur cowboy's loneful! | death, loneliness, lonesome, sorrow, love lost, wife | |
| 4612 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 59 | Chuck Haas | Gladly | I mind when I wuz young an' roamed. | Arizona, home, aging, old age, dying | |
| 4613 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 60 | Chuck Haas | Fall is Hyar | When th' thin clouds start a-sailin'. | levis, fall, clothing, work, aging, occupation, occupational lore | |
| 4614 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 61 | Chuck Haas | Don't Fence Me In | I'm jest a ol'-time puncher, boys. | aging, dying, bury, Great Divide, memories, old age | |
| 4615 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 62 | Chuck Haas | Un-Stoic | Most all cowhands pack tuff tissue. | lightning, weather, storm, struck, horse, death, pack horse | |
| 4616 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 64 | Chuck Haas | I Hope | When my tho't-herd gits t' wander. | campfire, camping, memories, songs, music, guitar, death, heaven | |
| 4617 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 65 | Chuck Haas | Th 'Cowboy's Pra'r | Lord I know your mighty power. | prayer, belief, church, devil, death, epitaph | |
| 4618 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 66 | Chuck Haas | Zippy | Ol' Zippy stands thar drowsing', still. | cow pony, horse | |
| 4619 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 67 | Chuck Haas | Levis | `Twar forty y'ar ago, er more. | past, Levi, jeans, store, pants | |
| 4620 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 68 | Chuck Haas | Cow-Thieving' | I `spect thar's ol'-timers still living today. | past, rustling, barbed wire, brand, brands, branding, changing, thief, rustler | |
| 4621 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 69 | Chuck Haas | Maw's Ace | It's well I `member days o' yore. | home, family, past, food, mother, father, foodways, pumpkin pie, eating, children, childhood | |
| 4622 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 70 | Chuck Haas | Fate? | I figger fate will, soon er late. | herd, herding, attack, cattle, horned, gored | |
| 4623 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 71 | Chuck Haas | Beef | "Gals is gals," boys! Good pals. | women, female, females, girls, food, eating | |
| 4624 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 72 | Chuck Haas | Lu-Ann | Oncet...way out t' th' Four T-Down. | courtship, boyfriend, girlfriend, marriage | |
| 4625 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 73 | Chuck Haas | Lone Bill's "Lay-Off" | Some y'ars ago, up Big-Horn way. | Will James, rustling, jail, layoff, railroad, cattle | |
| 4626 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 74 | Chuck Haas | Too Risky | We's propped in th' Pink-Pony bar. | life, fate, change, moving |