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Welcome to our
ninth annual Christmas at the BAR-D!
We keep Christmas
daily during the season, with
news, poetry, and more.
Along with our daily
poetry additions, we post holiday news and features,
below.
Christmas poem submissions were welcome through December 5; submissions
are now closed. Submissions are still open for the special Christmas Art
Spur (until December 18) and for New Years' toasts (until December 30),
both described below.
The perfect gifts...
Read more about these CDs of classic and contemporary poetry
here at the BAR-D.
A Special
Year-end Message
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CowboyPoetry.com that interested you? Did you visit for poetry, news, event
information, features? Was your own poem included at the BAR-D? Was your
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Poetry,
Stories and More, below
updated
12/23
Christmas Art Spur
Christmas Links and News
updated 12/23
Gift
Ideas; Christmas Picks for 2008 (separate
page)
Western Christmas Books and Music
(separate
page)
Daily
Additions below
Find
holiday events on our Events calendar
Poetry,
Classic and New and Old Favorites
See
our 2008 Christmas
Cowboy Poetry below
See a complete list
with links to all the holiday poems posted starting in 2000
here.
You can view the
yearly collections of classic and modern
Christmas Cowboy Poetry from previous years:
2007,
2006,
2005,
2004,
2003, 2002,
2001,
and 2000.
Christmas Art Spur
"Bringing Home the Tree"
image © 2004, Joelle Smith,
www.joellesmith.com; reproduction prohibited without permission
Our Christmas
Art
Spur project is a drawing by the late Joelle Smith, "Bringing Home the
Tree."
Selected poems are posted
here.
New Year
Toasts
We welcomed your Western New Year Toasts.
You were welcome to send up to three toasts, in the style, for example,
of S. Omar Barker's:
May
you never lose a stirrup,
May you never waste a loop;
May your can stay full of syrup,
And your gizzard full of whoop!
S. Omar Barker
Submissions are now closed. We choose the top submitted toasts for posting,
and they are posted here.
Christmas
Links and News
The December, 2008 edition of
Jeri
Dobrowski's
Cowboy Jam Session
column,
titled
"Christmas Gifts Ideas: Part 2," includes reviews of the
documentary
Evelyn
Cameron: Pictures from a Worthy Life;
Houlihan:
the Cowboys of Montana and Wyoming—fourth
in The Vaquero Series
by filmmakers Susan Jensen & Paul Singer;
Southwestern Souvenirs
music CD by Rich O’Brien;
Pieces of the Past
cowboy poetry CD by Yvonne Hollenbeck; and the book,
The World According to Baxter Black: Quips, Quirks & Quotes
and the CD, Blazin' Bloats & Cows on FIRE!, both from
Baxter Black.
The
November, 2008 edition,
titled
"Christmas Gifts Ideas: Part 1," includes reviews of
Gwen Petersen's
How to Shovel Manure &
Other Life Lessons for the Country Woman;
Best of Covered Wagon Women,
edited by
Kenneth L. Holmes;
Jeremy Agnew's
Life of a Soldier on the Western Frontier;
and
Robb Kendrick’s
Still:
Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First
Century.
Read all of the
Cowboy Jam Session
columns here.
For many, a part
of Christmas at the BAR-D has always meant a visit to first Lariat Laureate Rod Nichols' dazzling presentation of his poem, "Christmas Comes to Line Camp," at his
web site, in a special "web book" with music and entrancing
graphics. While we sadly lost Rod in 2007, the Christmas
presentations remain posted.
There are also two additional books: "Little Britches, A
Christmas Story," and "Christmas Poems," a collection of
twelve of Rod Nichols' Christmas poems.
Visit
all three of Rod's Christmas books
here.
Rod Nichols'
separate cowboy poetry board
is still maintained, and includes much Christmas cowboy poetry and
invites the participation of all poets. There was a day of
remembrance at the board on December 22, 2008, the one-year
anniversary of Rod Nichols' death.
The
Live! With
Jim Thompson show
honored Rod Nichols on the December 22, 2008
show, which featured Rod Nichols' Christmas poetry. You can listen
to the show at the web site's archives,
here.
Rod Nichols
1942-2007
Rod is missed terribly by his many friends, fans, and
family.
See a page of tributes to Rod Nichols
here.
Nevada writer and poet
Hal Swift's column,
A Brush with an Old Sage, is a regular feature at the
Nevada Observer,
"Nevada's Online State News Journal. Hal has two recent
Christmas-themed columns. He describes them:
"In 'T'is the Season,' the regulars at Shorty's Place join
together to help decorate, and to sing Christmas songs. There's
also a link to a website filled with lyrics of favorite Christmas
songs." Read the column
here.
"In 'A Cowpoke's Christmas Wish,' Little
Willie Stokes, a cowboy just in off a drive, strongly admonishes bad
guy 'Utah Kid,' for challenging a young boy's belief in Santa
Claus." Read the column
here.
[photo
by Johnny Gunn]
North Dakota rancher, poet and writer
Rodney Nelson's regular Up Sims Creek column appears
bi-weekly in the
Country Living section of
Farm and Ranch Guide.
The most recent column is titled,
The father/daughter hunt for the Nelson family Christmas tree and
includes a Christmas poem.
[Photo by Jeri L.
Dobrowski; see her gallery of western performers and others
here.]
Wyoming writer and poet
Jean Mathisen Haugen shares her story, "Christmas
Memories in the China Cabinet" in our
Western Memories project.
The
Live! With
Jim Thompson show
has a special Christmas program, including the show's own "Lariat
Laureate," Slim McNaught. You can listen to
the show
at the web site's archives,
here.
Award-winning broadcaster Jim Thompson's radio program,
Live! with Jim
Thompson, airs every weekday at 1:00 PM (MT) on over 50 radio stations
and live on the web. Read more in our feature here.
[photo of Slim McNaught by Jen
Dobrowski]
The award-winning
Clear Out West (C. O. W.)
radio show with
Andy
Nelson
and
Jim Nelson presents its annual Christmas Show live on radio stations
December 22-28, 2008 and on the internet at
www.ClearOutWest.com,
starting December 29. Songs, poems, and stories include Andy Wilkinson's
"The Tumbleweed Christmas Tree"; Ian Tyson's "Silver Bells"; the
Bar J Wranglers' "Silent Night"; the Flying W Wranglers' "Yuletide Yodel
Song";
Andy
Nelson's
"Christmas Everyday; Baxter Black's
"Littlest Shepherd"; and Belinda Gail's
"Mary Did You Know."
Clear Out West (C. O. W.) is broadcast weekly throughout the West from Pinedale,
Wyoming, syndicated to dozens of radio stations, bringing "News and Entertainment of the Cowboy Culture" to a wide
audience. Andy and Jim, the "C.O.W. boys"—known widely for the wild
humor they bring to cowboy poetry gatherings and their rodeo and sports
announcing—
feature
western music, cowboy poetry, and more on their popular show.
Calling All Cowboys presents the annual Calling
All Cowboys Christmas Cotillion, airing live on the web Christmas Eve
and on Christmas.
Host Charley Engel ("Chuckaroo the Buckaroo"), writes:
The Christmas Eve broadcast of the annual
Calling All Cowboys Cotillion will be two hours (6-8 PM Pacific).
On Christmas Day it will expand to four hours (a repeat of the
first two, then two more additional hours). Then the first two
hours will be repeated again on Sunday morning 12/28/08 at 8AM.
If folks go to my Calling All Cowboys Radio show page
here and click on the "Show Archive" link on the left hand
side of the page they will be able to hear the whole four hours
starting Christmas Eve, December 24, 2008, sometime shortly after
6 PM (Pacific). It will remain there until Wednesday, December 31,
2008, when it will get replaced by a New Year's show.
This year's Calling All Cowboys Cotillion is going to be a real
hoot! Not only will there be fabulous Christmas songs and poems
from the likes of Asleep At The Wheel, Michael Martin Murphey,
Riders In The Sky, Stephanie Davis,
Gene Pistilli, Joni Harms, David John & The Comstock Cowboys,
Devon Dawson, Baxter Black,
Waddie Mitchell, Gene Autry, and Tex
Ritter (and many more), but there will be original poetry,
stories, and songs from local Central Oregon artists and available
no where else.
I will also be airing a very rare recording of a Christmas LP from
the cast of the TV show, "Bonanza" and if that was not enough,
noted author and humorist, Jean Shepard, will be reading excerpts
from his terrific story entitled, "Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland
Kid," which was the basis for the classic holiday film, "A
Christmas Story."
I will be wrapping up the show with a Christmas edition of the old
time radio broadcast of "Wild Bill Hickcock" starring Guy Madison
and Andy Devine entitled, "Sir Tommy The Silver Knight." This is a
wildly imaginative tale wherein young Tommy enlists the help of
our six-gun totin' heroes on Christmas Eve to enter "Shadow Land"
with him and battle goblins, demons AND temptation. The trio must
rescue "The Christmas Lady" who is locked away in a castle tower
by an evil giant intent on destroying Christmas through the greed
of men's hearts! And all of this has to be accomplished before
dawn, Christmas Day. Whew! What a romp! Strictly for the young and
young at heart.
Calling All Cowboys
is a
weekly, two-hour show from Bend, Oregon, which includes cowboy
music, cowboy poetry, and interviews. The show is broadcast live on
Wednesdays at 6 PM and rebroadcast Sundays at 8AM. Each current show
is available on demand for one week at the
Calling All Cowboys web site.
The weekly Cowboy Culture Corner
radio show, with hosts Dallas and PJ McCord, is featuring Christmas poetry
and music on the shows leading up to Christmas, and they welcome your CD
submissions: Dallas and PJ McCord,
Cowboy Culture Corner,
KNND 1400AM,
240 Blue Jay Loop,
Creswell, OR 97426. Dallas McCord was named an Academy
of Western Artists (AWA) Top Disk Jockey in 2007.
The show plays Western and
cowboy music, cowboy poetry, and some bluegrass gospel. The show
airs Sundays from 1 PM to 4 PM. (Pacific) on
KNND
1400AM in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
The newest edition
(Volume 34) of Joe Baker's Backforty Roundup
includes a number of
Christmas songs.
The
Backforty Roundup is a
monthly
compilation of music and cowboy poetry, sent to over 170 Western
radio stations and publications.
The artists with tracks on the current volume include
those with
Christmas songs:
Johnny Lyon,
Rebecca Linda Smith,
Devon Dawson,
Buck Cannon,
Jerry Webb,
Eli Barsi,
Barbara Nelson,
Liz Talley,
and David E Young,
and those with standard songs: Devon Dawson,
Hank Stone,
Johnny Lyon,
Buck Cannon,
Chuck Cusimano,
Jerry Webb,
Gaylynn Robinson,
Cliff Douglas,
Smokey Wilson,
and Joe Paul Nichols.
You can listen to
the full tracks for Volume 34 of the
Backforty Roundup
here
at
the
Backforty
Bunkhouse web site.
Daily
Posts
Something
every day, along with
selected classic and
contemporary favorites from past years' celebrations
Jump to
the newest postings
below.
The Christmas
Season, December 2008
December 8
In what's become a tradition at the BAR-D, we start the season by sharing
a modern classic, a BAR-D favorite,
Christmas Waltz, by Buck Ramsey
(1938-1998). We have a new poem from Jane Morton,
Plains Blizzard,
from her forthcoming book. And, there's an old favorite,
Country
Christmas, by Sam
Jackson.
December 9 Particularly
for those who are trying to catch the spirit, we have Robert Service's
(1874-1958)
The Cremation of
Sam McGee, which takes place on Christmas Eve. There's a new
poem from Patti Leininger,
Dear Santa,
and an old favorite by Yukon poet Alf Bilton,
Even on Christmas Day.
December
10 Today's classic
selection is Happy Days, by
Canadian Rhoda Sivell (1873-1962). Joyce Johnson shares a new
poem, Christmas
Guests, and there's an old favorite by Yvonne Hollenbeck,
The Perfect Gift.
December
11
Australia's A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
(1864-1941)
tells a good story in his
Santa Claus
in the Bush. David Althouse shares a new poem,
Christmas Night in
Big Elk Country, and we bring back an old favorite,
Santa's Helper,
by Jay Snider (see the latest generation of Snider cowboys
below).
December
12 Bruce
Kiskaddon (1878-1950) wrote about
The Christmas
Tree. Jan Erickson shares his
new poem,
St. Nic's
Beginnings, Part 1, and
we have a favorite from a past Christmas at the BAR-D, Don Kennington's
Preparation.
December
13 and 14 Owen
Wister (1860-1938) wrote the story of "A
Journey in Search of Christmas," a part of his novel Lin McLean, published as a separate book in 1904
and
illustrated by Frederic Remington. V. June Collins shares a new poem,
Night Before
Christmas, and we have a favorite from a Christmas past,
Virginia Bennett's
Shepherds of the Range.
December
15 S.
Omar Barker (1895-1985) wrote
Empty Saddles at Christmas in 1944, and
it remains full of meaning today. Wyoming rancher Terry Henderson shares
her poem, Christmas Memories, written in memory of her son Monti, and
also for "all the families who are missing—whether temporary or
permanent—loved ones who should be in that circle, during Christmas."
Morgan Wilson, new to
the BAR-D, shares his poem,
No Regrets.
And we have a favorite from a past Christmas at the BAR-D, Dean Cook's
Grubline Carol.
December
16 For
our classic selection we have Arthur Chapman's (1873-1935) humorous
poem, Christmas
Shopping in Cactus Center. Welcome to Tom Kerlin and his
poem, Shorty's
Last Christmas. Two old favorites from poets from the
Dakotas are Rodney Nelson and his poem
Christmas on
the Prairie and Elizabeth Ebert and her poem
Mitten Christmas.
December
17 D.J.
O'Malley
(1867-1943)—who
is mentioned in this week's Picture the West—wrote
Busted Cowboy's
Christmas in 1893. Lavern "Straw" Berry shares a new poem, to
the tune of "Jingle Bells,"
A Christmas
Ride/Jinglin' Bells. And we have two favorites from past
celebrations of Christmas at the BAR-D: Hal Swift's
Christmas on the
Trail (it's his birthday today) and Al Mehl's
Star of Wonder.
December
18 S.
Omar Barker wrote many good Christmas poems, including
Line-Camp
Christmas Letter. We have new poem from Dale Page,
Christmas at the
Line Shack, and we bring back favorites from past holiday
celebrations,
Jo Lynne Kirkwood's
Christmas in the County and Robert
Dennis' The Gift.
December
19 We
have another piece of classic Christmas poetry from Bruce
Kiskaddon,
Merry Christmas. There are
three new poems:
A
Crayon-Colored Santa by
Mike Puhallo;
The Night Before Christmas Out West
by Townsend Twainhart,
new to the BAR-D; and
Christmas on the Homestead
by Mag Mawhinney. And, we bring back a favorite from a past
Christmas at the BAR-D,
Jim
Quaternight's Gift by
Dennis Gaines.
December
20 and 21 S.
Omar Barker's
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
was his most popular poem, and one of the best-known cowboy
Christmas poems. We have new poems from Jerry Schleicher,
In
Time for Christmas; C. W. (Charles) Bell,
Cowboy
Christmas Play; and Bobbie Hunter,
Cowboy Logic and Mistletoe.
Old favorites for the last Sunday before Christmas are
A
Cowboy's Christmas Prayer by Gail T. Burton;
Star
and a Humble Cowboy by Dee Strickland Johnson
(Buckshot Dot); and
Gifts in the Hay by Deanna
Dickinson McCall.
December
22
Courtesy of Greg Scott, we have a previously uncollected Christmas poem
by Badger Clark,
The Rover's
Toast.
Welcome Carol Oxley to the BAR-D and her poem,
The Christmas
Stocking.
A favorite from a Christmas past is Rod Nichols'
Neath a Christmas
Sky. Rod, deeply missed by his friends and fans, died this
day one year ago, and this was the last Christmas poem he submitted. Two
other favorites are from from friends Georgie Sicking,
The Spirit of
Christmas, and Diane Tribitt,
A Campfire
Christmas Eve.
There is a special
Art Spur submission,
My Hero,
by Clara Smith, niece of Joelle Smith, who is depicted in the Art Spur
subject, "Bringing Home the Tree" and there are Art Spur poems:
Yvonne Hollenbeck's
Bringing Home the Tree,
Jo Lynne Kirkwood's
Bringin' Home Christmas,
and Al Mehl's
The Gift...more
Art Spur poems to come tomorrow...
December
23 A
favorite classic Christmas poem is
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball by
Larry Chittenden
(1862-1934), first published in 1890 in the Anson
Texas Western.
Jo Lynne Kirkwood shares her recent poem,
Dulce est Décor.
We have old favorites, including Pat
Richardson's Here's to the Cowboys, Rod Miller's
Stopping by Woods,
Janice Gilbertson's Seein' is Believin', Linda Kirkpatrick's
One Less Chair at
the Table, and
Mike Dunn's
Wrappings & Bows.
There are
Art Spurr
poems: Jan Erickson's
Christmas in Logan 1952,
Jerry Schleicher's
Decoratin' with Memories, and Slim
Farnsworth's
Special Delivery.
December
24 For Christmas Eve, there may be no
better poem than Badger Clark's "The Christmas Trail":
The Christmas
Trail
The wind is blowin' cold
down the mountain tips of snow
And 'cross the ranges layin' brown and dead;
It's cryin' through the valley trees that wear the
mistletoe
And mournin' with the gray clouds overhead.
Yes it's sweet with the beat of my little hawse's feet
And I whistle like the air was warm and blue
For I'm ridin' up the Christmas trail to you,
Old folks,
I'm a-ridin' up the Christmas trail to you.
Oh, mebbe it was good when
the whinny of the Spring
Had weedled me to hoppin' of the bars.
And livin' in the shadow of a sailin' buzzard's wing
And sleepin' underneath a roof of stars.
But the bright campfire light only dances for a night,
While the home-fire burns forever clear and true,
So 'round the year I circle back to you,
Old folks,
'Round the rovin' year I circle back to you.
Oh, mebbe it was good when
the reckless Summer sun
Had shot a charge of fire through my veins,
And I milled around the whiskey and the fightin' and fun
'Mong the mav'ricks drifted from the plains.
Ay, the pot bubbled hot, while you reckoned I'd forgot,
And the devil smacked the young blood in his stew,
Yet I'm lovin' every mile that's nearer you,
Good folks,
Lovin' every blessed mile that's nearer you.
Oh, mebbe it was good at
the roundup in the Fall,
When the clouds of bawlin' dust before us ran,
And the pride of rope and saddle was a-drivin' of us all
To stretch of nerve and muscle, man and man.
But the pride sort of died when the man got weary eyed;
'Twas a sleepy boy that rode the nightguard through,
And he dreamed himself along a trail to you,
Old folks,
Dreamed himself along a happy trail to you.
The coyote's Winter howl
cuts the dusk behind the hill,
But the ranch's shinin' window I kin see,
And though I don't deserve it and, I reckon, never will,
There'll be room beside the fire kep' for me.
Skimp my plate 'cause I'm late. Let me hit the old kid
gait,
For tonight I'm stumblin' tired of the new
And I'm ridin' up the Christmas trail to you,
Old folks,
I'm a-ridin' up the Christmas trail to you.
Badger
Clark
Other selections of favorites for this
special day from past Christmas celebrations at the BAR-D
include Curly Musgrave's
Prairie Silent Night; Doris
Daley's A
Christmas Prayer, JW Beeson's
Christmas Serenade, DW Groethe's
Out My
Window, Slim McNaught's
A
Christmas Thought and Michael Henley's
The Gate Cut. And, Colen Sweeten (1919-2007),
loved and forever missed by all who knew him, left
us with many wonderful Christmas poems, including
In a Manger.
We've been fortunate to have so many good
Christmas poems submitted over the years. You'll find a list of all the cowboy Christmas poetry
that's been featured at Christmas at the BAR-D since 2000,
here.
Thanks to all who have submitted poetry and
to all who have visited during the season and throughout the
year.
We leave you with wishes for a Merry
Christmas and with Bruce Kiskaddon's classic:
The
Old Time Christmas
I liked the way we
used to do,
when cattle was plenty and folks was few.
The people gathered frum far and near, and
they barbacued a big fat steer.
The kids tried stayin' awake because,
they reckoned they might ketch Santa Claus.
Next mornin' you'd wake 'em up to see,
what he'd been and put on the Christmas tree.
It was Christmas then
fer the rich and pore,
and every ranch was an open door.
The waddy that came on a company hoss
was treated the same as the owner and boss.
Nobody seemed to have a care,
you was in among friends or you wasn't there.
For every feller in them days knew
to behave hisself as a man should do.
Some had new boots,
which they'd shore admire
when they warmed their feet in front of the fire.
And the wimmin folks had new clothes too,
but not like the wimmin of these days do.
Sometimes a drifter came riding in,
some feller that never was seen agin.
And each Christmas day as the years went on
we used to wonder where they'd gone.
I like to recall the
Christmas night.
The tops of the mountains capped with white.
The stars so bright they seemed to blaze,
and the foothills swum in a silver haze.
Them good old days is past and gone.
The time and the world and the change goes on.
And you cain't do things like you used to do
when cattle was plenty and folks was few.
Bruce
Kiskaddon
A Wooly, Warm Christmas
©
2008, Teddie Daley
Please request permission for duplication.
ShyAnn and Rowdy Snider, 2008
With special remembrance of those who left us this year...
With special remembrance of those who left us this year...
Judy Stevens,
Reese Kern, Betty Lou (Iiams) Hornecker,
Jim Rutledge, Frank Wolking, Georgene Conley, Thomas Tescher, J.A.
"Jack" Cooke, Ruth Knudtson, Ann Blackford, Tony Reed, S.J. Ebert,
Frederic L. Fridborg, Jane Richardson, Terry Brown, William (Jack) Stuart,
Howard Staub, Raymond Austby, Henry Benson, Dave Weinmaster, Paul Hendel,
Frankie McWhorter, Fred Ortiz, Abbi Bott, Joe Mascaro, Clem McSpadden,
Wilma "Willie" Schooler, Dale Warren, and Frances Roark Patterson.
With
remembrance also of Georgie Sicking's Monte, Totsie Slover's "Bianca,"
and Joyce Johnson's "Susie," gone to their rewards.
And, Bertha.
A
Special Year-end Message
This past year, did you find something at
CowboyPoetry.com that interested you? Did you visit for poetry, news, event
information, features? Was your own poem included at the BAR-D? Was your
local gathering announced, or were you a part of a gathering report? Did
we share your news with our many readers? Your support is vital.
'Tis the season.
If you enjoy features
such as Christmas at the BAR-D, there's no better time to
show
your support.
All that happens at the BAR-D is made
possible by the essential contributions of generous supporters:
CowboyPoetry.com;
Cowboy Poetry
Week and its annual Western art poster;
The BAR-D Roundup
compilation CD; and the
Rural Library Project
that distributes posters and CDs to rural libraries.
We've
received generous donations of
$10 and donations of $1000; and we are grateful for them all.
Become a
supporter, make a tax-deductible donation, perhaps in memory of someone who treasured our
Western Heritage: Make a difference.
Read
some of our supporters' comments
here,
visit the Wall of Support, and donate!
Read all about our
history, the Center, and about how
you can be a part of it
all right
here.
You can make a donation by
check or money order, by mail (please use the
form here for mail to PO Box 330444, San Francisco, CA 94133) or by a secure, on-line
credit card payment through
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of The Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, a tax-exempt non-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service
Act. Contributions to the Center are fully deductible for federal income
tax purposes.
As in all journalistic
endeavors, no editorial preference is given to financial sponsors or
supporters.
Read
some of our supporters' comments
here,
visit the
Wall of Support, and
join in
and be a part of it all!
See the links
above for holiday
news and more; our regular News Since the Last Newsletter is here.
See a complete list of
all the holiday poems posted since 2000 here.
See the
list of all the poems at the BAR-D here.
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