The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection : Authors M-Z,, 1890S-2008
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The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors M-Z,, 1890s-2008 Overview of the Collection Creator L. J. and Mary Skaggs Foundation. Title The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors M-Z, Dates 1890s-2008 (inclusive) 18902008 Quantity ca. 20 linear feet Collection Number USU_FOLK COLL 11 Summary Utah State University's cowboy poetry collection, containing books, pamphlets, etc. of cowboy poetry, songs, and related material; including both trade and self published works. Repository Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division Special Collections and Archives Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University Logan, UT 84322-3000 Telephone: 435-797-2663 Fax: 435-797-2880 [email protected] Access Restrictions Restrictions Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, box number, folder number and item number. The materials do not circulate and are available in USU's Special Collections and Archives. Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s). Languages English. Sponsor Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Historical Note 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 that were 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. The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 1 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Content Description 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. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Copyright It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Permission to publish material from the The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors M-Z must be obtained from theCurator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head. Preferred Citation The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection, 1890s-2008 (FOLK COLL 011) Administrative Information Arrangement Chronological by year. Acquisition Information Originally created by a donation from the L. J. and Mary Skaggs Foundation. Recent acquisitions have come through university purchase or donations from poets and collectors. Processing Note Register created by Susan Gross & Randy Williams, April 2004. Last revised by Randy Williams, February 2007. Related Materials The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors A-L Detailed Description of the Collection The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 2 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Folk Coll 11 M-01: Wyoming's Rancher Poet Mahoney, Timothy; compiled by Tom Nicholas Book Contents Description -- A New Year's Thought -- A Happy New Year -- God Bless Our Valentines -- This is Tim's Last Poem -- Saint Patrick's Day -- Good Friday 1962 -- An Easter Prayer -- Let Us Make Preparation -- A Thought for the Fourth -- A Thought for September -- The Things Worthwhile -- Thought for Labor Day -- October, 1968 -- My Halloween Rose -- Requiescat in Pace -- Pray the Rosary -- The Leaves -- Thanksgiving -- Peace on Earth The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 3 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- Christmas 1955 -- An Old Fashioned Christmas -- Christmas, 1972 -- A Christmas Thought, 1962 -- My Mother -- God Bless Them Forever -- On Your Homecoming Day -- Help Us, Dear Lord! -- Our Motto -- A Tribute to Our Troopers, 1965 -- A Hymn of My Heart -- A Visitation -- A Gift to the Mother of God -- On Our Lady's Day -- A Teenage Creed -- The Sour Apple Tree -- Be a Giver -- Great Men Never Die -- The Empty Chair -- Old Soldiers Still Fight On -- The Last Night The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 4 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- The Wild Horses -- Long May They Live! -- A Poem to Ray Studer -- A Saga of Sand and Sage, 1963 -- I'm Riding the Range on a Silver Plane -- Lest We Forget -- The Rendezvous -- What is So Rare as a Day in June, 1969 -- A Cowpoke's Dream -- Our Casper Mountain, July 1972 -- God Bless Wyoming -- The Pony Express -- A Cowboy's Wife -- The Ribbon of Road Folk Coll 11 M-02: Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 Major, Mabel and T. 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Pearce selectors & editors Book Contents Description -- The Road of Midnight Pageants -- The Texas Ranger -- The Sheriff's Widow -- From Sketches of Texas Prairie -- A Prayer of the Night Chant The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 5 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- Singing Up the Corn -- Beauty -- Papago Love Song -- Lament of a Man for His Son -- Song for the Passing of a Beautiful Woman -- Song of the Sky Loom -- The Maid Who Became a Bear -- On a Marble Medallion of Dante -- Red Man's Pledge of Peace -- Two Clouds -- On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900 -- Ballad of Cynthia Ann Parker -- Quanah Hears Two Calls -- Hands -- Hopi Prayer -- Indians -- Yo-Tan-E-Ki -- Hotevilla -- Santo Domingo -- A Dance for Rain -- Mississippi Indians The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 6 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- In Peterborough -- Blanket Flowers -- Alibi -- Ne-Sha-Be -- In the Osage Country -- Creeks -- Gray Roadster -- Song of the Rio Grande -- Calrsbad Cave -- Petrified Forest -- Monument Valley -- Coronado Come on Horseback -- Pasó Por Aquí -- Seven Song -- Los Penitentes -- Jim Bridger -- Ben Milam -- Alamo -- Southwest -- San Jacinto Battlefield -- The Santa Fe Trail The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 7 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- Lines from Arizona -- In Old Tucson -- Mexican Quarter -- The Hot Tamale Man -- Desert Born -- Noon Trail -- Desert Gods -- Desert Hunger -- In the Desert -- Ghost Town -- I am Desert Born -- In the Desert -- In a Border Town -- Little Horses -- There is Something About the Brush -- If I Had Never Dreamed of Poetry -- Death Rode a Pinto Pony -- When Billy the Kid Rides Again -- New Mexico -- New Mexico Spring -- Old Plaza in Albuquerque The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 8 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- Peña Blanca -- Cundiyo -- Juan Quintana -- Sheep Herding -- The Tent Rocks -- Truchas -- Morning Walk -- Santa Fe -- The Shawled Model -- Yellow -- The American Eagle -- A Home on the Range -- Old Paint -- The Dying Cowboy -- Get Along, Little Dogies -- Little Joe, the Wrangler -- The Cowboy's Christmas Ball -- Lasca -- The Hired Man on Horseback -- The Glory Trail (High Chin Bob) -- Old Bill -- The Last Drift The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 9 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- Jack Potter's Courtin' -- What's Become of the Punchers -- The Phantom Round-Up -- Cattle -- Texan -- Cowboy, Cowboy! -- The Passing Herd -- Llano Estacado -- The Prairie Schooner -- Prairie Brand -- Song of the Foreruners -- Prairie Pictographs -- The Fence -- Oklahoma's Will -- Sand Storm -- Tornado -- In Bourbon Street -- Song from Traffic -- A March Day in Oklahoma -- Spring Song -- For Oklahoma The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 10 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- A Woman's Song -- The Leader -- Sandstorm -- Prairie Days -- Healing -- Beauty is Everywhere -- Cities -- Down the Mississippi -- Clearing -- Planter's Charm -- Sheep in a Hillside Churchyard -- Christmas in the Ozarks -- The Long Night -- An Ozark Ploughman -- Hill Farmer's Epitaph -- Give Me the Apples -- Country Auction -- The Little Town -- The Trees of Fayetteville -- The Water Finder -- Hello the House The Skaggs Foundation cowboy poetry collection : authors 11 M-Z,, 1890s-2008 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27481 Description -- Red Earth -- Cotton -- Poor-White Sketch -- Bluebonnets -- Good Company -- I Have Hear Whippoorwills -- Beauty-Land -- Cotton Pickin' -- Candy Page -- De Boll Weevil -- Freedom is a Word -- The Incredible Flower -- To a Bird