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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4727 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 182 | Chuck Haas | The Grave-Yard Watch | I bets you ol' hands kin `member. | graveyard watch, night herding | |
| 4728 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 184 | Chuck Haas | Eighty Y'ars | Eighty y'ars I've rid, unfailing'. | eighty years, aging, old age | |
| 4729 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 185 | Chuck Haas | Go t'...Dad | I wuz a poor lone cowboy. | courtship, love, proposal, rebuff | |
| 4730 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 186 | Chuck Haas | He Did | Wa'nt no denyin' him! | talk, words, argue, opinion | |
| 4731 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 187 | Chuck Haas | Good Medicine | We's huntin' slicks, me an' ol' Tom Dunn. | philosophy | |
| 4732 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 188 | Chuck Haas | Sort o' Humble | Y'u've heard cowboys brag, "I ain't never been th'owed?" | humility, brag, bragging, ego, throwed, bucked | |
| 4733 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 189 | Chuck Haas | A Big Surprise | I's strollin' `round Ol' Wickenburg, in style. | hunger, need, needy, female, woman, poverty, aid, help, generosity, giving | |
| 4734 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 190 | Chuck Haas | Fer Me | I aim t' quit this eastern range. | east, west, Boston, Arizona | |
| 4735 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 191 | Chuck Haas | A Cowboy's Coat o' Arms | O' I'm a knight o' the saddle. | coat of arms, occupation, work, cowboy | |
| 4736 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 192 | Chuck Haas | Li'l Cowboy's Gone | Li'l cowboy's gone! He's ridin'. | son, child, death, loss, love lost, rattlesnake, poison, bite | |
| 4737 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 193 | Chuck Haas | I Know | `Twas nigh th' end o' a late fall day? | grave, death, loss, child, burial, son, father | |
| 4738 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 194 | Chuck Haas | Billito | Down in sunny Arizony. | colt, horse | |
| 4739 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 195 | Chuck Haas | No Quitter | Our "cookie"...Ol' Chuckwagon Pete...r'ile dat fate. | cook, wagon, chuck, chuckwagon, repair, breakdown | |
| 4740 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 196 | Chuck Haas | My Home | Jest a ol' ranch-house, squat' in th' valley. | home, ranch, family, grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, grandma, grandpa, growing up, memories | |
| 4741 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 198 | Chuck Haas | Sleep, Baby, Sleep | Well do I `member th' eve' I wuz `lopin'. | wife, mother, baby, cabin, lullaby, family, singing, song | |
| 4742 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 199 | Chuck Haas | Sittin' Purty | `Taint so hard to keep a-smilin'. | life, strengths, weaknesses, woes, joys | |
| 4743 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 200 | Chuck Haas | Dam' Bad! | I once met a hombre. | writer, author, books, tall tale, liar, lying, writing, motion picture, movie, movies, westerns | |
| 4744 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 202 | Chuck Haas | A Queersome Cuss | A cowboy is a queersome cuss. | occupation, profession, job, work | |
| 4745 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 203 | Chuck Haas | Back Home | Back home...frum France...in my Levi pants. | levis, jeans, World War I, WW I, Doughboy, patriotism, home | |
| 4746 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 204 | Chuck Haas | Cowboy Life | `Twas a bleak day in November. | herding, lightning, work, occupation, thunder, storm, death, killed, roundup | |
| 4747 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 206 | Chuck Haas | I'd Like to Know | Whar are th' sweethearts we used t' know. | female, women, girls, romance, memories | |
| 4748 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 207 | Chuck Haas | I'm Tellin' Y'u | Ever rid th' home-trail, waddy. | outdoors, range, nature | |
| 4749 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 208 | Chuck Haas | Dam' Glad | `Boys, time has shor made changes. | change, progress, fences, fence, barbed wire, range, memories, past | |
| 4750 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 210 | Chuck Haas | Th' Horny-Toad | Th' horny-toad. . .if he war blest. | horny toad, reptile | |
| 4751 | Rhymes o' a Driftin' Cowboy | FC 11 H-01 | 211 | Chuck Haas | Good-night, Do'gies | Quit y'ur fitful bawlin', do'gies. | dogies, fitful, night herding |