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Index of Poems
alphabetically by author

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L   

(M-Z are on the next page)

 

Anonymous
Bill Venero
The Campfire Has Gone Out
The Cattleman's Prayer
The Cowboy's Dream
The Cowboy's Lament
The Cowboy's Life
The Cowboy's Meditation
The Cowman's Prayer
The Cross Eyed Gal
The Dreary, Dreary Life 
The Dying Cowboy
The Gol-Darned Wheel
The Great Round-up
The Hell-Bound Train
I'd Like to be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring
I Ride an Old Paint
John Garner's Trail Herd
Ma's Old Galvanized Washtub
Make Me a Cowboy Again for a Day
Mustang Gray
Night-Herding Song
No Rest for the Horse
The Old Chisholm Trail
Old Paint
Old Paint (2)
The Pecos Stream
Silver Bells & Golden Spurs
Silver Jack
The Star Planters
Ten Thousand Cattle Straying
The Tenderfoot
The Texas Cowboy
To a Quiet But Useful Class (No Rest for the Horse)
The West 
Windy Bill
Zebra Dun

A

James Barton Adams
Bill's in Trouble
A Cowboy Toast
The Cowboy's Dance Song" ("The High-Toned Dance")
A Prospector's Thanksgiving
A Song of the Range
Thanksgiving on the Ranch

Keith L. Adams
Christmas on the Porch
If a Cowboy's Boots Could Talk
My Dad's Hat
Ol Buckaroo, Father-in-law & Friend 
This Old House
Tribute to Jon Pentz

Laura Aden
Sands Revisited
The Apache Trail

Dennis Adkins
Behind the Chutes

Jane Aherne
The Man

Singin' Sam Agins
Star Boarder
Dude Roundup
Rancher's Widow

B. Calhoun Alcorn
Arizona Match Race
A Cowboy's Hands
Front Porch
Gully Washer!
Texas Tack Shed
Thor

G. Casey Allen
The Texas Outlaw (for T. R. Stevenson)

Trey Allen
What It Is 
No Loop Limit Or Rope-O-matic 
You Ain't Sittin' Bull  

Charlotte Allgood-McCoy
The Arizona Man
Facing the Heat
Rodeo and Me
The Speckled Pup

Rose Mary Allmendinger
All Ya Gotta do is Whinny!
The Best Mother in This World!
Cowboy Culture
Dear Santa,
Fat 'n Pink
Good night, dear Heart...as we part...
Gutsy Gail... and her One-spur Scott ...
Here's Mud-In-Yer-Eye
It's that GOBBLE GOBBLE time of year!
Mistress MOOOOO!
Mistress MOOOOO...
Mistress MOOOOO... too...
Nuts, Cactus & Cans
Money Pit . . .
Motherhood
The Old Barn ..... wood ...
"Public"  . . . "Person"
Remember Windy
There Was an Ol' Cowboy Who Lived in a Boot
Those Were the Days
TIMELESS . . . Keepsake!
When the Old Yella Bus Comes Down the Lane ....
Will the Winter Ice Creak All the Way to the Bank?
WHO Holds the Reins
Ya Wanna Chew?
Your High Horse

Lucille Almquist
Sounds in the Night

David Althouse
Believin' a White Christmas Inta Bein'
Christmas in Cimarron Country
Christmas Out Here
Cowboy Christmas Carol
Cowboy Pirate of the Rio Grande: A Christmas Treasure Tale
The Night Before the Jackalopes Saved Christmas

Kyle Anders
Annie

Jim R. Anderson
They Call Him a Cowboy, with Cody Anderson
Erkile
The Great Circle
Horse Time
Imprints
In a Way
Jockeys
The New Bull

John Anderson
Cookin' Lessons
Country Deep
Eatin' Dirt
No Regrets
I Ride the Deep Canyons

Keith K. Anderson
Accidental Shooting?
Courting the Country School Teacher
The Enemy
Johnnie's Hairpiece
The Pitcher Show
Slim 'n Vern's Hootch
Trailhead Rodeo

John Andrus
The Ballad of the Prairie Posse

Sally Learned Antram
Sagebrush in Your Veins

Darrell Arnold
Cowboy Home
Cowboy Poultry Gatherin
Gettin' Acquainted
So Sad the Sensitive Artist
Summer Sky

Ben Arnold
His Campfire Has Gone Out
The Campfire Has Gone Out (in Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys)

Ross Christian Arvidson
Poem for Coyotes

Esther Ash
Stuck Again

G. M. Atwater
Cowboy Life
The Home Place  

Jason Avants
Headin' to Arizona
Rodeo
Ya Got It To Do

"Australie" (Mrs. Heron; Emily Manning)
The Muster

Robert "Bob" Hood Reeves Axtell
Sanctuary
Ballad of a Trail-Weary Trail-Herder

Don Ayers
Chicken De-Light
Cowboy Tenure
Disdain
The Gate
The Good Hand
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH...wind warning
Simple Truths

 

B

Jennifer Bain
Cowboy Heaven

Barbara G. Baker
The Cowboy Carousel
The Same Moon
The Sardine Virgin

Larry Baker
A Cowboy's Life

Nathan A. Baker
Grandpa's Mule

J. C. Baldwin
Daddy's Farm

Suzanne Ball
Country That I Love
Papa
That Old Sound
An Unlikely Angel

Rose Bardin
A Cowboy's Dream
The Cowgirl Way
Daddy's Little Cowboy Girl

S. Omar Barker
Breed of the Brave
Bruin Wooin'
Bunkhouse Christmas
Bunkhouse Thanksgiving
Christmas Promise
Code of the Cow Country
Cowboy Factory--Old Style
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
Cowboy's New Year's Resolutions
Curly Wolf College
Draggin' the Tree
Drifter's Thanksgivin'
Drylander's Christmas
Empty Saddles at Christmas
Four-Footed Dynamite
Grand Canyon Cowboy
"He'll Do!"
Horses Versus Hosses
Into the West
Jack Potter's' Courtin'
Line-Camp Christmas
Line-Camp Christmas Letter
Love's Hobbles
The Norther
Old Fence Rider
Old-Time Cowboys
Pullin' Leather
Purt Near!
Ranch Mother
The Riders
Rope Music
Saddle Lure
Shepherds of the Range
Songs for a Land of Horseback Men
Tall Men Riding
Thanksgiving Argument
Three Wise Men
Watchin' Em Ride
The White Mustang

Sally Harper Bates
Arizona Winds
For My Friends, Larry & Andrea (for Larry and Andrea McWhorter)
From an Old Ranch Wife 
A Leap of Faith
Mixed Blessings
Ridin' Drag
They're Comin' in to Water
What a Ride We've Had!!

Gary Bauder
Rainbow, the Mustang
Stringin' Fence

Dianne Baumann
The Cowboy's Last Ride
Why Santa Ain't a Cowboy

Jill Beeken
Days Gone By

Robert Beene
A Cowboy's Request
For Dad
How Long Will the Cowboy Last
The Little Roan Mare
When The Glory's All Gone
You Just Never Know

J. W. Beeson
The Bear Trap
Christmas Serenade
Last of a Breed
Nevada Blue Memories
Rosie's Eagle
The Teacher
The Time Machine

Chuck Beggs
Western Swing

C. W. (Charles) Bell
Being Prepared
Cheyenne Weather
Cowboy Dance
Cowboy Pretense
Cowboy's Revenge
A Day in the Lar'mie Range
The Greenhorn
Homestead
Horse Liniment
Horses I Have Known and Loved
Jake and the Grulla Mare
Line Cabin Night
Lucille
Moving at My Own Pace
Old Cowboy's Last Drive
A Perfect Day
Rachel's Quest
Ridin' Bull (7-1/2 Seconds)
Sage
Two Burros
Two Gifts for Christmas
When My Ranching Days are Over
Writin' and Recitin'
Young Cowboy Learns a Lesson

Christine Echeverria Bender
Hard to Kill
Oysters of the Rocky Mountains
There in the Shadow

Stephen Vincent Benét
The Ballad of William Sycamore

Virginia Bennett
Addressing Paul, stocked and pilloried, at a ceremony
 of public humiliation (have you ever heard of "private 
humiliation?"), Elko, 2003 for Paul Zarzyski 
All That is Left
As You Ride
Bells of December
Canyon of the Forgotten
El Fuego
The Hazards of Braggin'
Home....again
I Like to Think I Know
Inheritance
Joelle Smith a tribute
Lookin' for Cows, Fawn Creek, 1993
Nature Lessons
On the Brink of Forever
Ramona's Christmas Box
Sermon on the Mount
Songs on the Nightwind
Such Control
Superstitions
Tapestry of Knots
Truth of the Matter
Ty and I
Uncle Lou
We Are The Poets
The West Had Its Way With Me

Christine Gillette Benrud
Bull Fright
The Last Cowboy

Sidney M. "Sid" Benson
A Bare Facts Situation
Rodeo Dance
We Called Him Vinegaroon
Whiskey Bill

Lavern "Straw" Berry
Cowboying with Jace

Flavis Bertrand
The Homesteader
The Old Empty House
The Prairies

Risky Betts
The Conversation
Cowboys Purpose
First Try
Good Preparation
The Organic and the Yuppie
The Rich and Wealthy Shoer
Roadeo
Ropin Good, Drawin Bad
Some, Other, Poem
Top Hand

Ivan L Biehn
The Least of These

Alf Bilton
The Arts (in tribute to Rod Nichols)
Be it Elko or Eldorado
Beyond This River
Even on Christmas Day
The Freight Musher's Tale
The Home Place
If You're Gonna Be a Cowboy
Is a Cowboy Still a Cowboy?
The Lord's Own Prayer
The Morning That Pedro Blew
On Reflection
The Pixie Horse
Red Lady
Regret (in tribute to Rod Nichols)
Rules; An' When to Break 'Em (essay)
The Sad Saga of Parsimonious Murray
The Search Party
Sunset Gold
Sylvia
That Ride!
The One That Was Waitin' at Home
Trails North Advisory
Waiting for Nightmare
Wall Thoughts
When Walls Forgot
The Wrangler's Hat

Aspen Black
Hoofprints on the Clouds
Plight of the Musical Cowgirl
Where the West Isn't Dead

Baxter Black
The Buckskin Mare
Good Bye, Old Man
Legacy of the Rodeo Man

Bill Black
Courage is Easy When a Tame Horse You Ride
Determination
Irritated Girlfriend

Mark Black
The New Ole Grey Mare
Poets of the Cowboy Persuasion

Billy Blackman
Trimming Flash

Sherri Blaylock
My Job
Stop and Smell the Flowers

Tony Blisard
The Bull Rider
Cattleyard Cowboy
Cowboy Christmas
Cutting Hay
Early Morn
First Kiss
First Performance
Getting Short Changed
A Go To the Gates
I Am
Muse-in-Boots
My Old Hat
The Round Pen
Reflections
Stormy Nights
Suite Kitten

Paul Bliss
The Bust
Cowboy Poetry in Motion
The Ranch
Where Love Flowers Grow
Where's Old Doug

Barbara Bockelman
Black Sunday
The Cattle Killing
A Dear Departed Friend
Doe
End of Drought
Fenced
Grandad
How Did He Know That?
Making Do
Okie Lady
Old Gritty and Green
The Pillow
Ranch Delicacy
The Sod House
The Sorrel and the Gray
The Toaster (story)
Two as One
You and Me

Pat Boilesen
Goin' to Grass One More Time
Stallion Canyon

George Bourbeau
The Catch Rope
Christmas Conversion
Christmas Mystery
Dakota Jim
The Gift
Giving the Bride Away
Good-bye Old Friend
Incentive
Musings
Pistol Pearl
Reflections on a Hot Stove
Reindeer Wrangler
Riding for the Three Cs

Alex Bottesini-Pullin
A Horse with Two Graves
Gelding

Victoria Boyd
Balin' Twine
Bling! Bling!
Calf Girl and the Heifer Calf
A Cowboy's Hat
Fred's Red Horse
Lil Buckaroo
Weekend Cowboy Heading Home

Robert Boyle
Wild Horses

Shauntal Bradley
We Remember Him

Dan Bradshaw
I'll Be Go to Hell

Gary Brandt
Somewhere In Montana

Brian Brannon
Angels A-Hossback
Crossing the Prophet
The Guide
Hyper Hornets and Hoppin' Horses
Of Leather, Hemp and Wood
Phantoms of the Forbidden
Shovel Pass

Dana Brannon
Buck

Doug Brewer
Before Sun-up
Bessie
Bum Lamb
The Cowboy Hat
Cowgirl Chorister
Die O'Drought
Dollar Short
The Killing of Ol' Whitey
Little Pot-bellied Stove
Ol' Charley (in Texan)
Skeeter's Taters
Tacked
Talkin' Secret Lake Blues
"Three-in-one"

Caib Brian
That Old Fence

Cathy Brian
The Contradicting Cowboy
Grandma and the Outlaw
Grown Cowmen
Real Peace

Lee Brimhall
Spellbound

Ron Brinegar
The Graduate
Letter to Santa
Mirror
The Sixteen Dollar Bill
Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ole Days
Two Wolves
When You Need A Friend
Where the Angels Tipped their Wings

E. A. Brininstool
Autumn on the Range
Back to the Range
The Bunkhouse Boys
A Cattle Range at Night
Cattle Land's Farewell
Christmas Week in Sagebrush
The Country to the West
A Cowboy's Version
The Cowgirl
The Cowman Jubilates
The "Finale" of the Puncher
Frederic Remington
The Grub-Pile Call
His Trade-Marks
Juanita
The Old Yellow Slicker
On Night Herd
Passing of the Old West
Rainy Day in a Cow Camp
The Range Cook's "Holler"
A Range Rider's Appeal
The Range Rider's Soliloquy
Remarks by "Bronco Bob"
A Roar from the Bunkhouse
Sence Slim Got Piled
Unrest on the Range
The West
A Westerner

Brandon Broadbent
King of the County Fair 

Darin Brookman
The Gather
Goldie
Instinct
Some Men

Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks
First at the Face

J. Carl Brooksby
Gatherin' Desert Shrimp
Lonesome

Ed Brown
Larry McWhorter, Cowboy, Too Early

Francis Humphris Brown
Scotty's Wild Stuff Stoo

Laura Finlay Brown
Cowboy Angel
The Cowboy I Can't Forget
Cowboy Lies
Run

Ron W. Brown
Punch

Terry Brown
Bobbie Surpreme

Nancy G. Brundrett,
Ballad of the Mighty One

Jay Bryan
Co-Existing

Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)
The Big Spread
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve
Cowboy Goes A'Courtin'
Dancing with Dad
Dining Out
Duct Tape and Balin' Wire
He Said, "They'll Know Who I Am"
Legacy of Levi's
Maverick Love Affair
Morning in the High Hills
Old Hank Morgan's Place in Jean Prescott feature
The Other Mother
The Roan and the Pontiac
Sad Day for Trail Dust a tribute to Mason Coggin
Tomboy

Les Buffham
The Belle of the Cowboy's Ball
A Cowboy Callin'
Cowboy From the Rockies
The Hour Before Dawn
Pain-Away
Sayin' Goodbye
The Sermon
Three Days and Forty Fires
Wet 'n Wishin'

Scott Hill Bumgardner
Gathered Up
Just Look Around
The Lady in Black
My First Rodeo
Saddle Knowledge (Only a Cowboy Knows), with Rod Nichols
A Time to Thaw
Wobbly Leg

Jack Burdette
Angel in the Window
The Blacksmith's Shed
The Loneliest Trail
Magenta Sky
Oilcloth and Coal Oil
The Nighthawk's Christmas
Saguaros in the Snow

Art Burdic
The Cowboy
Cows
Ole Red

Debbie Burdic
Dad and the Sheriff's Posse
Daddy and Me
The Dust Devil Ballet
The Evils of John Barleycorn
The Possum Kingdom Robbery
The Pack Rat Mine
A Tall Tale
Western Symphony
Wildhorse Canyon

Lathum Burk
Great Granddad T.C.

Jeff Burkhart
A Cowhand's Prayer
The Cowhand Calls Again

Geoff Burkman
Rhymin' the Cowboy Way

Lanny Joe Burnett
The Conversation
Going to See the Elephant
Goldie
In the Pockets of Their Jeans
The Lesson
Living Almost Free
The Miles Behind His Eyes
Nightwork
Something's Missing
Things Only a Cowboy Knows, with Carl Condray
We Pointed Them North

Gail T. Burton
Bounden
Bunkhouse Christmas Eve
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
Cowboy Dreams
The Economist 
Ganted Down
How Far is it to Bethlehem
Just Celebrating
Passin' Through
Whiskey Pete
The Winds of Time

Daniel Bybee  
Old Jiggs
An Old Western Cabin
Propane Tank Cowboys
The Rodeo Clown

 

C

Kip Calahan
Thank You for Your Support, with Andy Nelson
Things a Cowboy Knows, with Pat Richardson

Rusty Calhoun
The Appaloosa
Barbed Wire
Bounty
The Butterfield Stagecoach Stop Elegy
Childhood's End (for Dale Evans)
Christmas Eve White-Out
Cookie’s Christmas Puddin’
Cowboy Hats
Cowboy Love
Cowgirl True (for Carol Malnar)
Dancin' on My Toes
Diamond, Black as Night
Grey Eagle
I Buckerooed with Belle Starr
L'il Ernie (story in the Cowboy Memories project)
Lucifer
The Photo Album
Ranch Music
Rancher's Lament
Shye Ann and the Card Game
When The Animals Talk
When the Cowgirl's Heart Broke
Where Colorado Mountains Touch the Sky

Lana Calonico
Guardian Angel

Charlie Camden
Boardwalks of Bannack
Cowboy
Farewell the Lady
'Fore the Comin' of the Wire
From the Saddle
The Legacy
Nightcamp
Old Chest of Memories
Old Friend
The Old Tree
Old Waters
Packin' In
Silver Star
untitled outlaw poem
What is a Cowboy Poet?
Why---it only seems like----yisterday

Shawn Cameron 
Cactus, Sand and Stone (or Corrientes and the Cowboy)

Marty Campbell  
A Real Moustache

Arthur J. Cantin
I Don't Want to Just Survive

T. J. Cantin
(see T. J. Casey)

Leslie Cline-Carbah
Cowboy Birthday Toast

Cardiac Cowboys
Cardiac Cowboys' Theme Song

Jim Cardwell
Buckaroo Vang
Clementine
Dick Plummer
The Freeze of '42
Iowa 1842
Itching Denied Benefit of Scratching
Ordinary Adel Day
Prelude to a Drought
Snakestale (How I Lost that Rattle) 
Sombrero
Thrasher

Louis A. Carle 
3AM Night Herd
Backward Boots
Centipede
Grandpa! Watch Your Language
The Making of a Friend
Sundown
Winter of Life 
Winter Wheels of Yesteryear

David L. Carlton 
Cook
Hard Times
Mr. Bell
Nagging Old Wife

Michael Carlton
Palace Hotel

Marvin Carnagey
Boy With a "Pie-Eatin'" Grin

Robert V. Carr
Baldy Joe's Simple Little Rhyme
The Chuck Wagon  
In Search of Local Color
The Old Cowboy's Lament
Prairie Wolves
Real Affection
The Tryst
When Dutchy Plays the Mouth Harp
Yesterday 

Timothy Carrier
The Buc Stallion
A Cowboy's Prayer
The First Christmas
The Outlaw
The Working Cowboy

Val Carter
A Bear Behind

Nona Kelley Carver
Ashes on the Snow (in our Cowboy Memories Project)
Cowboy Bob's Dream
Curley
Daddy's Hat
Daughter of the Prairie
Good-Bye, Old Cowboy, Good-bye
In Memory of a Prairie Rose (for Carol Malnar)
An Old Cowboy's Prayer
Tic Tac Toe
To a Friend
The Words of Bruce Kiskaddon
When The Cowboys Came For Christmas

T. J. Casey
The American Cowboy
The Corral
Cowboy Christmas Time
Cuz the Cowboy, He's Still Here
In the Cowboy Hall of Fame
I Was Raised
Jingle Bob
Not Without a Fight
Ridin' Out
The Story of the Cowboy
The Wagon Wreck

Clem Caufield
The Crib Master
The Initiation of a Pot Licker
Prayin Sites

Jesus Cervantes
I Seen John Wayne

Byrl Keith Chadwell
Columns of Two
Cowboy Credentials
Grand Canyon Mule Guide's Dilemma
Lodge Pole Pine
The Prodigal Cowboy
Scratcher Bell
Trail Blazers
Twenty Dollar Spurs

John C. Chamberlin
Environmentalism
Tim, David, and Clay (for Clay Lindley)

Linda Kandelin Chambers
Amos

TW Chambers
Cowboy Seasons
The Hard Things
Last Respects
Silent Vigil

Arthur Chapman
Arroyo Al on Worry
The Bunkhouse
Classic Dancing in Cactus Center
Christmas Shopping in Cactus Center
The Cow-Puncher's Elegy
The Cowboy's Homing
Daylight Saving in Cactus Center
The Debate in Cactus Center
The Diamond Hitch
Discipline in Cactus Center
The Dude Ranch
Easter at Cactus Center
The Herder's Reverie
The High-Heeled Boots
Journalism in Cactus Center
The Magic Mulligan
The Meeting
Men in the Rough
Moving Pictures in Cactus Center
October on the Sheep Range
The Old Dutch Oven
The Old-Timer
The Old Yaller Slicker
The Ostrich-Punching of Arroyo Al
Out Among the Big Things
Out Where the West Begins
Pete’s Error
Valentine Day in Cactus Center

Janice Chapman
Cattle Moving Day
The Christmas Sleigh
Curse the Winter Ride
God's Cowboy
The Hard-Core Man
His Little Cowboy Boots
The Little Cowpoke
My Grandson and the Stallion
My Horse Champion
Ol' Cord
Old Time Cowboys
Our Friend Went Home (tribute to Louis A. Carle)
Proud Grandma
Quick Sand
The Old Cowboy
The Stallion
With Clouds Hung Low

April Chase
Company 

Mickee Cheek
Except That
Sandhills Seasons

Toni Chisamore
Hip 202 

Jesse Chisholm
I Do Not Lead a Cowboy's Life

William Lawrence "Larry" Chittenden
The Cowboys' Christmas Ball
Old Fort Phantom Hill
The Origin of the Term Maverick
The Ranchman's Song
A Stockman's Adventures in New York
Texas
Texas Types--The Cowboy
Texas Types--The Sheriff
Texas Types, The Tenderfoot

Steve Christian
Cowboy Memories
Days Like This

J. R. Claiborn
Flaming Beans
Meet My Maker

Allen Clark
Me and the Boy
Posthole Promenade

Badger Clark
All for Nothing (prose excerpt)
Bachin'
A Bad Half Hour
The Border
A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue)
The Bunk House Orchestra
The Christmas Trail
A Cowboy's Prayer (Written for Mother)
The Coyote
The Free Wind 
From Town
The Glory Trail (High-Chin Bob)
God of the Open
God's Reserves
The Hermitry (prose excerpt)
Jeff Hart
The Legend of Boastful Bill
The Lost Pardner
The Old Cow Man
On Boot Hill
Others
The Outlaw
Pals
The Passing of the Trail
The Piano at Red's
The Plainsmen
The Rains
Ridin'
The Roundup
Roundup Lullaby
Saturday Night
Song of the Leather
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Hymn, 1943
To Her
The Westerner
The Wind is Blowin'

Patty Clayton
Ben and Ole's Land
The Vaquero and Me

Stephen Cloud
Thanks from Cow Camp

Janice Coggin
The Ride

Mason Coggin
We Mine Copper

Bobby Cohoon
Bury Me Not
The Flag Pole
Gentleman Jim
It Happened One Christmas
Last Letter Home
Roses are Red

Elizabeth Cole
Here's Lookin' at You Cowboy Blue

Peggy Coleman
Heroes and Cowboys
The Ride

Scott Collins
Gunslinger

Steve Collins
Uncompahgre Spring

V. June Blevins Collins
Barn Sour
Branding Time
Currie
Homeward Bound
Mike (A Clydesdale)
One-Sided, Treasured Friendships
Pink's Call
Pink's Day
Stan's Stone Boatin' Steer

Jesse Colt
Cowboy Self Taught
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Carl Condray
Christmas in the Scrub Oaks
Piano Pete's Sweet Finale
Taters and Beans
Things Only a Cowboy Knows, with Lanny Joe Burnett
We'll Meet at the Gate
A Wild, Turkey Dinner
Winter Stampede
A Wrangler's Thanksgiving

Steve Conroy 
Grandpa's Will
The Photograph

Dean Cook
Flying Bill's Ride
A Good Ride
Grubline Carol
The New Cowboy's Lament

John A. "Ringo" Cook
A Boy's Dream
Cowboy
Ridin Fence

Ken Cook
Bloodlines
Brothers Stay Together
Come with Me
Company
The Conversation
"Dad, we'll rope today"
Grandpa
I'm Gonna Be a Cowboy
Remote Control Wife

Ralph Garnier Coole
Desert Rat
The Ranch up Yonder
Riding at Night

Barrie Cordingley
The Fastest Gun Alive 
How the West Was Won
Old Blue

Nathan Cornell
End of the Day

Ellie Corrigan
Listening for the Chains
Pards
Satan Stallion

Michael H. Cotton
C. C. (Bull) Rider

Julia Cox-Wilson
Wild and Young 

Captain Jack Crawford
Broncho vs. Bicycle
Thanksgiving

Phil Crawford
The Bronc Rider
Leader of the Herd
Montana Slim

Van Criddle
A Christmas Tale
Hands Worth More than Silver or Gold
At His Own Pace
I Don't Live on the Ranch Anymore
Merry Christmas
No Man Hath Made This Beauty
Sixteen Horses 
'Tis in the Spring
What Really Matters?

Carroll Crispin
Old Red the Outlaw Horse
Progress

Lynn M. Croke
Honey Jo Dandy

Clark Crouch
Alice
Calving Season
Christmas Blew In
Christmas on the Prairie
A Christmas Tale
Christmas Wish
Cowboy Church
Cowboy Poet
Crouchmas
Duck Tape
Five Senses
The Guardian
Guitar Player
Headin' Home
Images of Evening
The Last Cowboy
Lyrical Ponderings
New York
A Prairie Christmas
Ridin' Home
Ridin' Out
Roscoe's Problem
Russell's West
Santa's Brand

Harold Crow
Cowboys Don't Skate
Goin Swimmin 
Miss Laura

Gary Crum
Deputy Sam Hobart's Eulogy
Orn'ry Gnaw Bone, 1898
The Roy Gartin Gang

Jenn Crundwell (see Jenn Jacula)

D  

David J. Dague
Advertisin' for The Cloven Hoof Saloon
Backward R Double Bar D
The "Basque" 
Belgians, Mules, and Morgans
Bourbonnais -- Heinrich Kluerman's Town
Breed
Cachet
Cattle Kingdom 
Cloven Hoof Saloon 
Dealing with "Mirrored Sunglasses"
Desert Spread
Deformed, Reformed Cowboy
D. J. (Darling Jennie) 
Dogtown
Dormants and Hibernationists
El Diablo Rojo
Fort Dearborn
Grandpa's Champion
Hardscrabble Road
How to Write a Poem in Cowboy
I'd Give My Right Arm to be . . . Ambidextrous
Jim Bridger's Rendezvous with History
Last Cattle Drive to Bodie 
Ode to Mike McGinty
Out Stringin' Fence
Outlaw in Black in the Badlands
Shadow
Sunup, High Noon or Sundown
Town of Wonder
Whistle

Devin Dahl
The Old Man

Doris Daley
100 Years From Now
All My Trails
Answering Machine
Bones
A Christmas Prayer
Hands
A Letter to Mr. Russell
One Good Horse
Pierre

Jim Dalglish
The Ballad of Badlands Bob
The Border Ranch Barbed Wire Lament
Cowboy Music Ain't Country
The Cowboy "Wish I'd Been"
The Creation of Yodeling Bob
Hats 'n That

Robert Dall
I've Never Been a Cowboy

Frank Daniel
The First Buck
I'm the Man
Cobb and Co.

Suzann Darnall
The Night Before Christmas...Texas Style

Louise Davis
The Old Cowboy Hat

Shane Davis
The Wild Horse Race

Stephanie Davis
Baling Twine
Goodnight Little Cowpup

David Dawson
Cowboy Friend
Endurance
Legacy

Geff Dawson
Cowboy Poetry Rodeo
The Wake-Up Call

John Day
The Cowboy

Daylon
untitled

Bobby Dean
So Long

Gina Dean
A Lone Wolf

Graham Dean
Blue Denim
Didgeridoo
Dreaming
The Dying Breed; an essay about the Australian "Cowboy"
I Have Seen the Land
The Pain of Leaving
A Thousand Dreams
To May-belle

Louise K. Dean
Just a Dance

Sam DeLeeuw  
Boolie Shoppin'
Christmas Gift -- A Sack of Dreams
Cowboy Jumpstart 
Don't Weep for Me
Gathered Up
Harley's Helper
Lead the Way
Prayer of a Rancher's Wife 
The Rancher
A Rancher's Christmas
A Rancher's Wife's Christmas
Registered Broodmare
Spellbound by the Legend
Spreadin' Sunshine
Spring 
What Will We Do

Robert Dennis
At His Own Pace
Bringing Home Christmas 
The Gift
Green and White
Horse Trade
Manuel Coy
Night Sport
The Quest
Specters

Ted E. Dennison
What a Cowboy Is... 
Headwear Impaired

Sue Derksen
Beans!
The Cowboy Way
Gettin' Bucked Off Bandit
Honour
I Am a Canadian Cowgirl
My Little Crooked Calf
The Team

Harvey Derrick
Chapel on the Prairie

Ronald J. DeSantis
The Cowboy Way
The End of the Trail
The Old Cowboy and the Young Buckaroo

Frank Desprez
Lasca

Debby Dever
Sigh of the Stallion

Catherine Lilbit Devine
Christmas for Cowgirls
The Cowboy Way in a tribute to Rod Nichols
In Every Cowboy's Heart
Letters Home
Little Cowpunchers
Line Cabin Christmas

Ben Dhuyvetter
My Horse

Mike Diehl
The Legion of Marshall Bill 

David Dill
Cattle Drive 
The Devil's Tale
The End
Gray Quarter Horses
Howdy
Jefferson's Christmas
John Payne
Tom Z. Reeves

Steve Dirksen
Across the Plains
Bill's Show
Bob's Hat
Cowboy Christmas Light
A Cowboy Needs
Elko
Face the Day
Get Back Mr. Black
If There's No Need
I've Cussed
A Man with a Name (for Larry McWhorter)
Mom
New Year
Night Class
No Spurs a-Jingling 
An Old Hand
On the Go
Short a Few
The Shot Glass
The Singing Cowboy
Special Day
Standing Down
Take a Chance 
Technology
Thinking
Western Writer

Jeri Dobrowski
Cowboy Jam Session (column)

John C. Dofflemyer
Near Mote, Nevada

Bodie Dominquez
A Cowboy's Heaven, with Phil Crawford
Fifty's Just a Number, with Mike Puhallo
Merry Christmas, with Mike Puhallo

Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)
The Big Spread
A Christmas Eve to Remember 
Cowboy Goes A-Courtin
Dancing With Dad 
Dining Out
He Said, "They'll Know Who I Am"
Legacy of Levi's
Maverick Love Affair
The Roan and the Pontiac
Sad Day for Trail Dust (tribute to Mason Coggin)
The Star and a Humble Cowboy
Tomboy

Ab Douglas Driediger
The Lost Sorrel

Gail Dudley
A Cowgirl's Dream

Will Dudley
A Cowboy Farewell (with Diane Tribitt)
Dreams of Long Ago

Bette Wolf Duncan 
8 Seconds From Glory
The Blue Ribbon Words Of The Blue Ribbon Man a tribute to Rod Nichols
Cattle Country Trilogy
  The Sweat Belongs T' Me
  Mad Dog Mean
  Tom and Me
A Dying Cowboy's Prayer
Empty-Cradle Sad
Flowers for Annie
Heading Home
He'll Make a Cowboy Yet
My Pretty Patch of Green
The Old Man Was a Cowboy
Sacrifice Cliff
Shaney Ridge
Westward Ho, Their Wagons Rolled

Evelyn "Dr. Mimi" Dunham
White Cloud and Pappa Little Joe

Mike Dunn
Ben's Family
Chores I Don't Guess I'll Tire Of
Had I Known
Just Beyond the Clouds
Mom's Kitchen Table 
The Snake Incident
Spellbound
Still Doin' Business
Store Bought Buckle
Wrappings & Bows

Tim Dunnam
Cutter Bob
Steer Crazy

Diane Durrill
Each Line
Grandpa's Shrine
The Last Big Ride
Unique Mule for Sale

 

E

Bandy Earl with Chad Peer
Grandpa Lee (for Lee Earl)

Lee Earl
A Flash in the Sand
A Helping Hand
The Jelly Roll

Johnny D. Eaton
"3-7-77"
Barefoot Cowboy
Billy and the Devil
Billy Brown
The Buffalo
Cowboy's Prayer
Death of a Cowboy
Legends or Lies
Lonely are the Brave
Missouri Cowboy
Rodeo Star
Shorty
Shorty's Last Ride
Triple Three

Elizabeth Ebert
Bringing Along a Spare
Cowboy Courtin' Time
For Howard (for Howard Parker)
He Talked About Montana
Leading a Spare
Mitten Christmas
Ode to Tofu
Spring Thaw

Dixie Eckhoff
Jake's Secret
Luv That Chevy
The Roper

Mark Edevold
A Funny Horse

T. C. Edington
Tribute to Louis L'Amour

Don Edwards
The Ballad of Jack Thorp
Minstrel of the Range

Janet Eggleston
Eight-Second Dreams
Moving On...
A Quarter's Worth

Maurice Ehrhardt
The Big Plastic Bull

Richard Elloyan
The Series
The Windmill Man
The Coffee Shop
Favorite Photograph

Tony Engberg
Just Another Mornin' 

Fred Engel
Attention Vegetarians!

Glen Enloe
Big Red Lowell
Blue Moon Christmas
Campfire Christmas Eve
A Christmas for Cowboys
Christmas in a Bottle
The Christmas Orange
College Cowboy
The Cowboy from Cutter Bill’s, a tribute to Rod Nichols
The Cowboy That Found Life's Creek
The Cowboy's Desiderata
The Devil and Prickly Pete
Don't Ever Sell Your Saddle
Downers
Dust and Tails and Trails
The End of the Old West
Faces in the Fire
He Who Sees Dreams
Heading Home (the Work's All Done)
Hoppy 
Kiskaddon Christmas
The Last Roundup
Moon Shadows on the Snow
The Music of Memories
The New Gun in Town 
An Ol' Cowboy Still Remembers...
Partners with the Wind
Ponderin' Paul
A Range Too Far
Riding Out in Red Sunrise
The Red Calico Cowboy Santa Claus of Concho County
Such a Thing as a Cowboy
The Surest Way
The Waxed Coat Man
When Cowboys Rode Away

G. Don Ensminger
As Long as I Live Up in These Hills
The Boys Will Ride High Again 
Christmas Mornings
The Cowgirl Called "The Bride" 
I Know What Heaven Knows 
I'm a Better Man Boss
My Dashboard Hula Girl 
My Winter Conditions
Ranches of Walden
Riding up the Western Slope
Santa Fe Santa Claus
Tornado's Alley
We Grew Up on the Cimarron
Windblown Fire, or Fireblown Wind
Witches in the Valley of the Sun

Micah Travis Epley
Round Up Time
Land for Sale

Jan Erickson
A Day in December
That Little Utah Home (for Larry Sandberg)
The Tail of Ol' Bud
Uncle Charlie's Christmas Eve

A. W. Erwin
Distractions

Heather Erwin
The Healing
My Green Ford Truck
The Power of Horse 
Sherwin Erwin, the Windsucking Yearlin'

K. T. Etling
Angels in the Desert
Cowboyonic's
Culture Shock
The Endless Purple Sage
The Road Beyond
Rudolph Was an Outlaw
Rufus, Ridin' Point
Santa Drives a Cutter
Should'a Been Here Yesterday
Temporary Insanity
Today He'd Be a Cowboy

Pete Evanson
Bunkhouse Boys
A Hard Life in the High Country
Little Cowboys
The Odyssey
Ol' Slim
Rocky Mountain Cowboy
Sundown at Tulsa
Yancy

Blanche Evridge
Flat-Top Mama
Me and Him and Lonzo

 

F

Meredith Fahey
A Cowboy Is Made of...

Slim Farnsworth
The Big City Cattle Buyer
Old Fences and Old Cowboys

Lonnie R. Faubion
Dude Holiday
Memories
The Old Man and the Mule
Stampede

Dan Faught
Bankin with an Old Cowboy

Kenny Feidler
Farewell to Heroes

Jody Fergerstrom
The Bottom Line
The Horseman and the Cowboy
Running in His Mind, for Jasper
Tall Tales
Wishes for Grandpa

Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas

Sherrod L. Fielden
The Awakening
Bill Aldrich of Muleshoe, Texas
Boots
Brave Warrior
Charlie's Christmas
Cowboy Obituary
The Cowboy Way
Cowboy's Vision
Cowboys Then and Now
Dixie's Dime 
The Greenhorn
Hammerhead
Hog Wild
Legacy
Little Britches
Payday
Real Cowboy
Sandstorm
Stampede
Supply Run
Trail of Steers
Tribute
Winter Camp

John B. Fincher
Cloning
Cowboy Part

Doc Finstuen 
Cowboy Have a Care

Dennis Fischer
My Partner Too

Jim Fish
Christmas Time's Around the Bend
Heritage
Pancho
The Ride

Dave P. Fisher
Booger Red
Dawn Riders
Dudes
The Fifth Ace
He Don't Look Too Good 
Juniper Joe
The Kid
The Lord's Creation
The Most Important Man in the Outfit
Packstring Shoer
Post Holes
Santa and Slim
Spooky Ol' Red
Thanksgiving Grace
They Still Do That
The Western Myth
What Santa Gave Jack

Juni Fisher
I Will Miss Ireland Forever
Chinaman Jack
Goodnight Good Pony (for Joelle Smith) 
The Same River

Michael Fleming (New West)
The Rodeo Nobody Knows
Sometimes This Old Cowboy Gets the Blues

Curley Fletcher
That Bucking Bronk, Coyote
Canadian Rose
The Cow Pony's Lament
The Cowboy's Prayer
The Cowboy's Soliloquy
The Desert Rat
Last of the Thundering Herd
The Last Roundup
The Pot Wrassler
The Ridge-Running Roan
Saga of Borax Bill
The Saddle Tramp
The Sheep-Herders Lament
The Strawberry Roan
When Desert Flowers Bloom
Wild Buckeroo
Yavapai Pete

Robert "Bob" Fletcher
The Belled Coyote
That Li'l Baldy Hoss
Open Range

Mike Flood
Cowboy Life

Justin Flowers
Old Cowboy Memories

J. W. Foley
Crossing the Divide

Richard Boyd Fowler
Of Cattle, Horses, and Land

JA Fox
My Cattle Pennin' Angel
A Good Idea at the Time
Murphy's Law
A Penner's Letter to Santa 

Rachel Fox
The Ballad of the Kansas Cowboy
Cowboy High

George Foy
I Hear a Guitar

Monte Franks
Cowboy for Hire
Forever in the Saddle

French Camp Red (aka Brad Smith)
December Ride
The Dog Swamp Stranger 
Earl's Back from Elko
Eternal Reward
Earl Gits Mad
The Pickle Jar
The Wedding

Kay Frenzer 
The Miner
Mule Train

Vaughn Fritts
Black Bart

Robert Frost
The Christmas Trees

 

G

Belinda Gail
Mail Order Bride, with Curly Musgrave
Horse Corral Meadow, with Frederic Fridborg
Only a Cowboy Knows, with Curly Musgrave
She is a Cowgirl

Dennis Gaines 
Bungee Buckaroo
The Centaur's Better Half
A Different Point of View
Jim Quarternight's Gift
The Journey of Three-Fingered Jake
A Life Well Lived
Pardners
A Saddle and a Dream
Song of the Brasada
The Spandex Cowboy
To a Friend
Trouble's a Bruin
Ty Murray, Eat Your Heart Out
The Undisputed, Heavyweight, Calf-Rasslin' Champeen of the World
Windies

Bobbie Gallup
Beartooth Blizzard
Blizzard Calf
The Demise
Cowboys Make Good Preachers
Drive A Little Faster
Fighters and Fools
Moose Amok
Rocking Horse
Rustler's Requiem
The Snow Seems Awful Early
Three Kinds of Men
Yellow Shelf Elf

Sean Garcia
Yukon

Gail Gardner
The Sierra Petes (or Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail)

Ken Gardner
Sleepin' in the Bunkhouse

Jim Garman
Hey!!
Pulling Their Weight

Waylon Garman
Running

John Gentry
Cowboy Movies
Cowboy Slam

Davey Lee George (see McCloud)

Robert George
One Pair of Twos
Tombstone Shuffle
Varmints
Waycross Saloon

Lloyd M. Gerber
Cattle Fever
It's a Matter of Taste
They Rode for the Brand 

Stephen Gesé
Simple Pleasures

Joseph Getling
The Ornery Lookers

Dan Giallombardo
Council Fires
Nine untitled poems
The Stranger

Bill Gibson
Big Bend

Kay Gibson
Cricket Band
Ghost Town
Gopher Holes
Rain Crow

Larry Gibson
Thanks

Greg Gilbert
A Cowboy Christmas Prayer

Janice Gilbertson
Bring 'em Home Slow
Freedom Ride
Giving Into Lonesome
Grandstanding
How Can We Lose?
I Knew That
Lesson Days
Line Dance Lesson
Miracle in the Night
Night Time's Promise
The Nighthawk's Dance
The Pasture of Frogs
The Porch Light
The Right Way
Show Girl
Sometimes, in the Lucias
The Watchers
Weather Report
The Wild Side of the Fence

Peter Gilchrist
The Bullrider
Wildhorse Camp

Tom Gilliland
The Way It is

Molly K. Gilmore
His Saddle in the Hall
Just Like My Dad

Tammy Gislason
A Cowgirl's Prayer
The Ghost Rider
In The Wind
The Senorita's Song
Snow

Rebecca Glover
The Wild One

Peggy Godfrey
Country Graft