Old West Poems

Old West Poems PDF Author: Christopher Hooten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888215281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Old West Poems depicts the lifestyle of cowboys in the American West. Cowboys blazed trails as they moved cattle to market in Kansas and Nebraska. It describes their adventures and many of the poems are historically factual.

Old West Poems

Old West Poems PDF Author: Christopher Hooten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888215281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Book Description
Old West Poems depicts the lifestyle of cowboys in the American West. Cowboys blazed trails as they moved cattle to market in Kansas and Nebraska. It describes their adventures and many of the poems are historically factual.

Tall Tales of the Wild West

Tall Tales of the Wild West PDF Author: Eric Ode
Publisher: Meadowbrook
ISBN: 9781416936770
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of funny tall tales featuring cowboys, cowgirls, and other characters from the Wild West.

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering PDF Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493008420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is the granddaddy of all cowboy poetry events, proclaimed by the US Senate in 2000 in recognition of its pioneering role in the preservation and revitalization of this important American tradition. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the event, this commemorative volume collects 100 poems by various cowboy poets who have appeared at the gathering over the last three decades, from Baxter Black and Wallace McRae to Georgie Sicking and Paul Zarzyski. Representing the best contemporary cowboy poetry from the first gathering to the present, the poets and poems are culled for their importance and quality with consideration for a wide range of topics that represent the richness and depth of this broad genre. In addition to poems that will make you smile, sigh, or sit up straight in your saddle, the anthology features expressive photos of the contributors, biographical and explanatory headnotes, relevant artwork from the Western Folklife Center's extensive archives, and illuminating sidebars on various topics such as working cattle; life on the land; the relationship between cowboy poetry and song; gear, horses, or cattle mentioned in poems; and profiles and photos of important cowboy poets from earlier times. Cowboy poet extraordinare Baxter Black will provide a foreword, and Charlie Seemann, executive director of the Western Folklife Center, will write an introduction that gives context both to the event itself and to cowboy poetry in general, from the days of the trail drives in the nineteenth century to the lives of the hardworking men and women who still ranch and live on the land in the West today.

Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New

Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New PDF Author: Bob Frost
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440170126
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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In his first poetry book, A Sweet Place to Play, Author Bob Frost compiled his collection of work from over thirty years. Cowboy Poems about the Old West and New is a collection of original poems the author wrote as he explored the west and rode with the Verde Vaqueros of Scottsdale, AZ. Bob tries to imagine what it must have been like in the old west. He wondered what they thought about and what humorous events might have taken place. Some of the poems are simple stories with a surprise humorous ending, while others take on a more serious pondering. In Chapter three he shares a different style in some of the poetry; some are more descriptive, others, metaphorical and even mystic. Living in Scottsdale, Arizona for almost forty years has given the author close ties and interest in the old west as well as experience in the new. In addition to being a poet, he is an auctioneer, enjoys golf, fishing and music.

Cowboy Poetry, Classic Rhymes & Prose by Badger Clark

Cowboy Poetry, Classic Rhymes & Prose by Badger Clark PDF Author: Badger Clark
Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions
ISBN: 9781931725095
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Poems of the American West

Poems of the American West PDF Author: Robert Mezey
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375414592
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like “The Streets of Laredo,” from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as Bertolt Brecht and Zbigniew Herbert. Here is the West in all its rich variety–the harsh life of farms and ranches; man’s destructive invasion into forest and desert solitudes; the bars and bistros of San Francisco and Hollywood; Pacific surf and endless highways; the ghost towns, the poverty, and the legendary world of cowpunchers and gunslingers. From Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” to Charles Bukowski’s “Vegas,” from Fred Koller’s “Lone Star State of Mind” to Thom Gunn’s “San Francisco Streets”–the West is evoked in all its incarnations, both actual and mythic.

Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems

Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems PDF Author: Wallace McRae
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423609315
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Wally McRae, a regularly featured performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, has performed on a syndicated television program and at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is the first cowboy poet to be granted a National Heritage Award. This book contains 94 of his poems, including such classics as Reincarnation, along with 40 new poems published for the first time.Paperback; 25 black & white illustrations

Cowboy Poetry

Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Virginia Bennett
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586853495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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In Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion we lift our lariats and salute twenty years of poetry sharing at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Reflective and rascally, tough and fresh, clever and insightful, this book holds the history, the heritage, and the future of the vibrant voices of the West. This anthology comprises some of the best of traditional cowboy poetry predating the present cowboy poetry revival, as well as work created since 1985. It is a great retrospective, giving us a sense of where we have been and where we are going, as well as a fitting tribute to the men and women whose words reflect an authentic American West. Virginia Bennett is the editor of Cowgirl Poetry, also published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher.

Poems about the Old West and New

Poems about the Old West and New PDF Author: Bob Frost
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781440170119
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Cowboy Poems about the Old West and New is a collection of original poems the author wrote as he explored the west and rode with the Verde Vaqueros of Scottsdale, AZ. Some of the poems are simple stories with a surprise humorous ending, while others take on a more serious pondering. Some of the poems are descriptive, others, metaphorical and even mystic.

Georgia Cowboy Poets

Georgia Cowboy Poets PDF Author: David Fillingim
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 0881461830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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"In this text, author and editor David Fillingim turns his attention to the West - West Georgia that is. This book examines how the contemporary cowboy poetry revival that sprung up in 1985 in Elko, Nevada, has borne fruit in the Peach State. First, Fillingim traces the history of cowboy poetry and its emergence as a cultural phenomenon. Then he recounts the story of how Georgia became home to a vibrant cowboy poetry scene. But the largest part of the book is an anthology of poems by some of the finest cowboy poets anywhere, and they all happen to be in Georgia." "As celebrated cowboy-poet Doris Daley says in the preface, "everywhere is west of somewhere". So settle in, and travel with Fillingim to someplace west of wherever you are, and enjoy this unique combination of shrewd scholarly analysis and heartwarming cowboy poetry." --Book Jacket.