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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| 501 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 23 | S. Omar Barker | Ramblin' | Some fellers sing fer a little gray house. | flivver, car, travel, roads, dreams, rambling | |
| 502 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 24 | S. Omar Barker | What is Spring to Youth? | What is Spring to Youth? My youth loved wistful Fall. | aging, seasons, autumn, fall, winter, old, pain | |
| 503 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 25 | S. Omar Barker | To the Normal University | Alma Mater, this word for you. | education, college, sophistry | |
| 504 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 25 | S. Omar Barker | The Teacher's Recompense | If I could teach just one good thought that would meet the need of some child heart. | education, teaching, cheer, student, life | |
| 505 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 26 | S. Omar Barker | A Measure for Man | I hear folks measure up their friends. | good, bad, vices, brotherhood, friendship, love, judgment, gossip, happiness | |
| 506 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 27 | S. Omar Barker | The Old Mill Wheel | I don't suppose that anyone has ever counted mill-wheel turns. | water, fairies, aging, dreams | |
| 507 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 29 | S. Omar Barker | Schoolmaster | It is not for the tragedy of wispy hair. | gray hair, wrinkles, eyes, dreams, aging, learning, education, teaching, school | |
| 508 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 30 | S. Omar Barker | Sanctuary | In pause less march the unforgiving years. | aging, life, hope, memories, memory, youth, fate, sanctuary | |
| 509 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 31 | S. Omar Barker | Crepuscule | If I had not seen the sun when it rose. | love, tenderness, first love, young love, new love, eyes | |
| 510 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 31 | S. Omar Barker | Pierrot to Pierrette | If I had only known the moon was white and cold. | broken heart, love, love lost | |
| 511 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 32 | S. Omar Barker | Lost! | Dear St. Anthony, please come 'round | love, kiss, girlfriend, heart, Cupid, St. Anthony, kissing, robbery, stolen, moon, moonlight, rose garden | |
| 512 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 33 | S. Omar Barker | Now You Are Gone | It used to be that tawny moons. | love, love lost, happiness, meaning, contentedness, dreams, relationships, loss | |
| 513 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 34 | S. Omar Barker | When Snowflakes Fly | I have loved in summer, I have wooed in spring. | seasons, lovers, love, winter, tenderness, passion | |
| 514 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 35 | S. Omar Barker | For Forgetting | There will be things to remember. | memory, hair, love, romance, kiss, September, regret, lips, forget, memories | |
| 515 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 35 | S. Omar Barker | My Lady Fair | There's a winsome brown-eyed maiden. | photograph, female, woman, calendar | |
| 516 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 36 | S. Omar Barker | Nocturne | A white night for purity. | thoughts, love, kiss, girlfriend, female, lips | |
| 517 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 37 | S. Omar Barker | Poppy Day | "Pushin' up the daisies, Bill. | death, war, grave, tomb, cemetery, bravery, friendship | |
| 518 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 38 | S. Omar Barker | Nos Comarades | Somewhere in France and Germany the poilus march again. | French, comrades, invasion, marching, foe, enemy, vengeance, war (Written when the French went into the Ruhr) | |
| 519 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 40 | S. Omar Barker | A Young War Widow Speaks | This is the day when I shall wear. | poppies, death, grave, war, hair, France | |
| 520 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 41 | S. Omar Barker | The One Word Left | The good old doughboy lingo that we used across in France. | war, language, terms, jargon, buddy, friendship | |
| 521 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 42 | S. Omar Barker | Red Poppies | Red poppies are a sign to me of things I never more may see. | war, France, death | |
| 522 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 43 | S. Omar Barker | Sea Memories | A moonlit mist lies over the hills. | memory, sea, harbor, ship, sailing, sailor, fog, mist, memories | |
| 523 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 43 | S. Omar Barker | Life | Dreams and a gay ship scudding to sea. | longing, ocean | |
| 524 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 44 | S. Omar Barker | Magic of the Sea | Oh, I'd like to settle down in some quaint and quiet town. | home, harbor, sails, sea, ocean, waves, house, memories, longing, sailor | |
| 525 | Vientos de las Sierras (Winds of the Mountains): Poems of New Mexico | FC 11 B-07 | 45 | S. Omar Barker | Mountains | I have known the prairies, I have loved the sea. | hills, home |