COWBOY POETRY CLASSICS SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

In bunkhouses, bars, and hotels and around campfires and corrals, cowboy poetry flourished during its golden age between 1905 and 1935. Impelled by the development of the cowboy hero in print and on film and the idea that a unique way of life was fast disappearing, writers—cowboys and non-cowboys alike—began memorializing life on the range. The widespread popularity of these poems captured the spirit and adventure of life in the American West. Produced in conjunction with the Western Folklife Center and featuring the recitations of many popular performers from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, this remarkable collection brings new vitality to the poetry and voices of these American icons.

Epilogue – Baxter Black
The Sierry Petes – Gail Steiger
A Cowboy’s Aoliloquy – Wallace McRae
The Smell of Rain – Virginia Bennett
El Corrido de Kiansas – Anastacio Castillo
A Cowboy’s Dance Song – Glenn Ohrlin
When You’re Throwed – Sunny Hancock
Our Last Ride – Echo Roy
Forgotten – Ross Knox
Where the Ponies Come to Drink – Tom Sharpe
Purt Near! – Peggy Godfrey
The Old Night Hawk – J.B. Allen
From Town – John Dofflemyer
The Moonshine Steer – Georgie Sicking
Rain on the Range – Bill Wood
Bob Sears – Red Steagall
They Keep A-Stealing on You in the Night – Doris Daley
The Strawberry Roan – Ray Lashley
When They’ve Finished Shippin’ Cattle in the Fall – Waddie Mitchell
The Smoke-Blue Plains – Elizebeth Ebert
Boomer Johnson – Randy Rieman
In the Droving Days – Milton Taylor
The Legend of Boastful Bill – Paul Zarzyski
Anthem – Joel Nelson