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Index of Poems
alphabetical by author

Mc-Mac  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

(A-L, previous page)

 

Mc-Mac

Neil Harding McAlister
An Easterner Looks West
The Far Side of the Fence
The Hole-in-the-Wall Café

Deanna Dickinson McCall
Advice
Cow Country Code
Feral Words
Gifts in the Hay
The Hired Hand
Hot Iron
Old Ones 

Allen McCandless
The Cowboy's Soliloquy

McCloud (Davey Lee George)
30 and Found
Ageless Beauty Fair
Arlyne's gi'tar
Arroyo
Big Roan
Bunkhouse Christmas Eve
Canyon Madness
Christmas Eve
A Christmas Story
Clouds
Cowboy in Love
Cowboys and Christmas
Cowboy's Way
A Cowboy's Way
Cowboys
Damned Cows!
Dangerous Trail
Dark Trail
Drought
Frosty Morning
Getting Home
Gittin' Away
Going to Tucson
Going West
Gold
Happy New Y'ar
He Wolf
Hoss and Rider
Hoss fer Sail 
John McCloud, foreman
Keepin' Honest
Lineshack Rider
Longhorns
Lookin' 'round 
Mean Hoss
Morning on the Trail
Mountain Storm
Mustang
The Newfoundlander and the Bull
Night Music
Night Thoughts
Nighthawk
Nighttime Desert
Not me, Cowboy!
Ol' Mike
Old Timer
The Pinto Mare
Prairie Fire
Range Rider
Riding in the Rain
Rodeo Rider
Sad Plight
Sand
Sights and Sounds along the Trail
A Small Miracle
The Three Year Old

Lauren McCluskey
Morning Ride

John Temvik McClusky
Last Call

Don McCrary
Bull Rider's Prayer
The Death's Head Bull
My First Love
Not Yet...

William Donald McCrary
The Riders

Monte R. McDonald 
Cowboy Poetry

Tammy McDonald
A Sign of the Times 
Teaching Girls to Pack 
Anam Cara - Soul Friends (for Larry McWhorter)

Terry McGahey
A Cowboy's Life

Garth "Tex" McHenry 
How to Speak Texan...

Bill McKay
Last Dance
The Waddie

Ben McKenzie 
Another Old Cowboy Has Died
Barb Wire
Christmas at McCreaty's
The Drifter
Grandma and the Cowboy
Make Mine a Cowgirl

Mark McMillan
The Gold Rush Trail
Guests!
Haulin' Cattle
Hayin' in the Cariboo
If I'd a

Slim McNaught
At a Cowboy Pace
A Bull in the Kitchen
A Christmas Thought
Closin' the Gate
Cold Weather Feedin'
This Cowboy Thing
A Gift from the Past
Hayin' Time
Headin' Home
The Job
The Kissin' Tree
The Last Cowboy
Lookin' Back
The Memory
Memories in the Mist
The Old Roller Towel
Prairie Bones
Reminiscin'
Rod's Pinpoint of Light for Rod Nichols
The Snubbin' Post
Spring in South Dakota
The Tale of "A Christmas Tale"
Where the Hard Grass Meets the Sky

Rod McQueary
The Chicken Outfit
For Woody
lander evening
Mad Jack's Dog

Wallace McRae
Boot Shoppin'
Malcolm and the Stranglers
Reincarnation
Urban Daughter

Billy McRea
Froggy Friends (fragment)
Grass

Denise McRea
Empty Houses
Irrigating...Why I Do It
Ranch Wife's Resume
Plain Ol' Red

Chrissy K. McVay
Cowboy Cody's Ride

Larry McWhorter
The Red Cow
Gate Session
Johnny Clare
I'll Meet You at the Throne

Trampas McWhorter
Dude
From a Cowboy to a Soldier
My Job

 

M

Walt Makowski
"I Will Fight No More, Forever" Chief Joseph, Nez Perce 

Howard D. Mallison
Brown Mule
Granny's Crochet Hook
A Glance Back
Ode To An Eastern Cowboy

Carol Malnar
Calling up the Horses
Prairie Rose
We Must Abide

Peggy Malone
Appaloosa Running Through my Mind
My Cheyenne Cowboy
Singin' A Cowboy Song

Larry Mapes
Gettin' Old
The Last Link
Line Camp Cowboy
One More Time
Phone on the Range

Alan J. Martin
Slim 

Janalee Martin
Close to Timber
Forever
The Long Rope

Zach Martin
8 Second Ride
Almost the Perfect Horse
Bulldogger's Creed
Clownin Around
Colorful Character of a Clown 
The Cowboy Test
Toughen Up

Gabriel Martinez
God Bless the Cowboy

Rick Martinez
Last Prayer
The Newborn
The Storm

Tim R. "Doc" Mason
The Bull Ride
Catch Up Time
Educated Cowboy
Life Goes On
Panhandle Wind
The Ostrich and the Cowboys
Stephenville on the Bosque

Jean Mathisen see Jean A. Haugen

Bruce Matley
The Ranch that I Can't See

Mary Bursell Maupin
Broomstick Cowboy
A Cowboy's Vision
Fowl Land Development
Government Help Wanted
Home Alone
The New Mechanical Age
Nighthawk Cowboy
The Patent Leather Sheriff
Peculiar Characters
The Rebellious Ostriches
The Rim of August
Tales of the Plains
Stage Flight #1993
Stumpy Joe's Sow

Larry Maurice
Cashbaugh Summer
Damn it!
For Sale By Owner...
I Am America
I Wish I Could Have Seen It
It's That Time Again
Peace on Earth
Perched on Castle Peak
She Was Always The Music

Mag Mawhinney 
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve
A Cowboy's Romance
A Dying Breed
Holding On
Molly
Those Who Have Gone Before
Time for Ponderin'
Winter Range

Frances Henry "Frank" Maynard
Bill Springer's Hand
The Black Cat
The Cowboy's Lament (Streets of Laredo) 
Farewell to the Plains
On the Trail
Passing of the Old Frontier
A Reckless Cowboy

Renee Meador
Feedin' Time
Socks

Al Mehl
At His Own Pace
The Brand New Year
Cowboy Pottery
A Cuttin' Horse
Fence Posts Made of Stone
The Great Depression
The Great Divide
Headin' Home
High Water Mark
I'd Rather Be...
The Mav'rick
No Room at the Inn
Ol' Muley
Room with a View
Someday
Star of Wonder

Lyn Melnechenko
Cowboy's Best Friend
Friends Are Where You Find Them
Winning the Lottery

Jon Messenger
When the Purple Shadows Fall

Joyce Metzger
Best I R'Collect
Can't Recollect When Hit Was Eber
Dos Shorthorns
Seems Like

D. Harvey Meyer
A Chip Off the Old Block

Debra G. Meyer
The Horseman

Gary Wm. Midge
Ballad of the Badlands
Espresso Blues
Josh
The Old Homeplace
The Stranger

Trish Millard
You Think You're a Horseman 

Beckie A. Miller
Companions

Harold Roy Miller
The Buck Stops Here
Cattle Call
Christmas Cap Pistol
Christmas Night Ride
A Christmas Tall Tale
Cowboy Dream
Delbert
Educated Cowboy
A Filly I Could Not Tame
First Light
A Fun Dreary Day
Hindsight
I Must Find That Herd
Inside Fences
Memories of Love
Mustang Band
Ranch Hands
Ranch Wife
Red Rider
The Old Cowboy Rhymer
Schreiber Valley
Western Jollification
Worthwhile Ride
What It's Worth

Joaquin Miller 
Midnight Pencillings

Rod Miller  
An Apology to Readers, Sort of, But More Like an Explanation or Maybe an Excuse
Bad Road
The Bottom Line
Cowboy Coffee
Cowboy Defined
Cowboy Trail
Devil of Devil Creek
The E. S. L. Ranch
Feral  
Five Ways Cowboy Poetry Fades in the Footlights (prose)
Forecast
Gone to Town
A Good Hand With a Rope
A Guide to Ranching for the Politically Correct
Haiku for a Former Rounder
Heads or Tails
The July 20, 1999 Tranquility Base Stampede and Rodeo
Learning the Ropes
Long May it Wave
Luck (Not Exactly the Beginners Kind) 
Morning Glory
Mule Whisperer
Noteworthy  
Peace and Quiet
Red Meat
Stopping By Woods
Tabula Rasa
What Goes Cowboy Up 
Womb to Tomb (for Marlowe)
Year 2002 Diet Resolution

Bonnie Mills
A Nebraska Morn

Kendra Minger
Being a Cowboy
A Cowboy's Good-bye
He Never Said He Loved Her
Nuts and Bolts

Sig Mischnick
New Way

Mislette the Singing Cowgirl
Crimson Prairie Rose, with Rod Nichols

Waddie Mitchell
Recipe for a Cowboy Poet (about Chris Isaacs)
Story with a Moral

Janice Mitich
Big Trouble
Buck Ramsey (in memory)
Cat Fishin'
The Christmas Ox
The Coggin's Test (for Mason Coggin)
A Cowboy's Opus
Cowboy Up
The Fluteway
The Last of the Cowboys (by her father, George Prell)
Leadin' the Way
Line Camp (in the Cowboy Memories project)
Nana's Rollin' Pin
A New Year's Goose
Omachalakwa
A Prairie Rose (for Carol Malnar)
Queen of the West (for Dale Evans)
A Rancher's Wife
Takin' the Tally
Tears for Mt. Lemmon
Thanks for the Poem
Where Do We Go From Here?
The Windmill Women

D. R. Monterrose
A Day at the Ranch

Whitney Montgomery
Death Rode a Pinto Pony

Joe Moon
Dreamin'
Drought
Rough String Rider
You Want to Be a Cowboy?

J. D. Moor
Cowboy's Day

Janie Lee Moor
Horse Crazy
When the Wind Blows (More Than the Bough Breaks)

Mike Moore
20 Some Odd Years Ago
21st Century Cowboy
The Mule Skinner and the School Marm

Harry "Breaker" Morant
Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now

Frank "Two Jump" Morris
The Real Gallopin' Gourmet

Robin Morris
Cowboy
Cowboy's Painting
Honey Can you Help Me A Minute
Skiing

Vern Mortensen
The West That Was
Range Cow in Winter
Badger

Jane Morton
Adrenaline Rush, Matt's Story 
Antelope Estates
Bijou View
Branding
Bryce's Canyon
Christmas Love
Christmas MemoriesChristmas Turkeys
Christmas Voices
Cody's Christmas Present
Coloring the Horses
Connected
The Cottonwoods 
Cowboy Poetry
Dick's Story
Drought Time Along the Santa Maria 
Grandma's Roses
Grazin' Rights
Hand in Hand
His Tractor
Horse Thieves
Memories of Place
The Men Who Rode with Custer
Mom's Birthday
Mom's Job
Montgomery Wards
A Real Cowman
Old Reddy
Partners
Pot Luck
Prairie Fire
Ranch Beginnings (prose, in Western Memories Project)
Ranch Christmas
Ranching Tales
Robert May's Story
Seein' Santa
Spellbound
The Spirit of Christmas
Steamboat 1896-1914
Summer '34
Straw Barn (in Western Memories Project)
Teddy
Trail Driver
Turning to Face the Wind
When Grandpa Bet the Farm (in Western Memories Project)
Wild Horses

R. J. (Dick) Morton 
City Kid

A. Kathy Moss
Day's End
Echoes
Of Grace and Grit
Songs Less Traveled
Wink, Nod and Sigh

Mike Moutoux
Headin' Home
High Dollar Man

Mark Munzert
Ranch Rain

Mike Murray
The Card
Of Things Organic

Curly Jim Musgrave
(Big Enough to Wear) My Daddy's Hat
Cowboy in a Hardhat
Curly's Song
Father to Father 
The General Store
The Heritage
Only a Cowboy Knows, with Belinda Gail 
Prairie Silent Night
Thanks (The Old Cowboy's Prayer)

Ed Myers
The Cowboy Life
A Good Day's Ride
Movin' High to Low

N

Berta Hart Nance
Cattle

Madeleine Nattrass
Real Cowboys

Jimmi Naylor
Edith
Reyes Clan
Sweet Thing

Wayne Naylor
The Heifer

Lee Neill
Cowboys and Country Boys

Andy Nelson
Amen, But ... (prose)
Bovine Converging Stabismus
The Box R Cavvy
The Cat Wrangler
Cowboy Poet
Hogzilla
I Sold My Saddle
Just a Cowboy
Max's Last Ride
Mud Season
No Man's Land
Only a Cowboy Knows, with Don Kennington
The Old Crockett Spurs
Ridin' with Jim tribute
Thank You for Your Support with Kip Calahan
The Worst One to Buck

Drue Nelson
The Lesson

Duane Lee Nelson
She Don't Mean Much to Me

Joel Nelson
Here's Looking at You
Inside War
On Finding Someone
Roundup Time
Scotty
While I Sleep

Lindsey Nelson  
Cowboy Blues

Rob Nelson
Christmas in July

Rodney Nelson
Christmas at Sims
Christmas on the Prairie
Dakota Fresh Air
ND Forecasts
Good Clean Fun
The Proposal
Up Sims Creek

Ed Nesselhuf 
Autumn Harvest
Bart's Freckles
Child of the Open
Dances with Bulls
Edges
Pounding Hooves

Rod Nichols
Angels Round The Campfire
At His Own Pace
At the Jollification
A Badger Clark Christmas
Bill Pickett
The Book That Coosie Left
Boots
Bringing Home Christmas
Bucky
Buffalo Soldier
Bull Rider
Cheyenne Buckle
Christmas at the Bunkhouse
Christmas Comes to Line Camp
The Christmas Corral
A Christmas Journey
A Christmas Mem'ry
Christmas Round the Campfire
A Christmas Tale
Cowboy 4th of July
A Cowboy Christmas Carol
Cowboy Heaven
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve
A Cowboy's Letter
A Cowboy's Poem
Cowboy Poetry
The Cowboy Sailor
Cowboy Service
Crimson Prairie Rose, with Misslette the Singing Cowgirl
Cutter Bill's Fourth of July
A Dad's Prayer
Dad's Way
Deep October
Dust
Easter Sunday Mornin'
End of Day
Faded Love
A Fine Romance
Full Circle
Grandpa's Tale
Great Day for a Cowboy
Headin' In
Hildalgo
Home from South Dakota
In God's Hands
An Irish Cowboy
An Irish Cowboy's Song
The Last Cattle Car
The Line Camp Cat
A Little Bit of Shade
Little Bit of Texas
Little Britches
Louie (Tribute to  Louis A. Carle)
Moses Rose 
Neath a Christmas Eve Sky
New Year's at Cutter Bills
New Year's Eve
Odie's Bath
Old Hand
Pedernales
A Penny's Worth
A Pinpoint of Light
Poker Night
Prairie Rose (for Yvonne Hollenbeck)
A Rancher's Pride
Ridin' Out
Rivers of Texas
Rodeo, Ranchin' and Rhymes
Romancin' the Stone
Rooster 
Roundup
Saddle Knowledge (Only A Cowboy Knows), with Scott Bumgardner
Salt Grass Trail
A Sea of Grass
Seein' Santa
Simply the Best
The Space On The Bunkhouse Wall
Style
Talent
Texas, From a Saddle
Texas Saddle
A Thanksgiving Mem'ry
The Thing Upon the Trail
Thoughts
Three Godfathers
Tipperary
To the Boys at Cutter Bill's Bar
T. R. (Tribute to T. R. Stephenson)
Trail Cook
The Trail that Leads to Home
A Visit to the Camp
Windy
Yep

Corrie Nickeson
"Down" in Cheyenne

Gregg Norman
Cowboy Thinkin'
Damn Dust
Daybreak
God Bless the Dudes
Grazin'
Horse of a Different Color
Just an Old Barn

Howard Norskog
Doing Just Fine
Just an Old Saddle
Last Days
An Old Cowboy's Christmas
The Salmon River Breaks

Dixie Northcott
Ode to Jim Glover

 

O

Jim Odell
Day's End
Grandpa's Wisdom 
The Life Of A River
Spring in the Air

Will Ogilvie
Hooves of the Horses
The Pearl of Them All

Eddie O'Hara
The Picture Show Drovers

Calli Oiestad
The Trail's End

D. J. O'Malley
After the Roundup (When the Work's All Done This Fall)
Busted Cowboy's Christmas
A Cowboy's Soliloquy
"Crow Rock, Deadman Creek, Blaisdale Butte" prose excerpt
The "D2" Horse Wrangler
"The Experiences of the F U F Roundup Crew Caught in the Cloudburst of June 1891" prose excerpt
"Where Custer Fell" prose excerpt

Gene O'Quinn
Cowboy Verse
The Cowman's Question
Mickey and the Week-old Calf
'Nuther Lean Winter Comin'
A Ranger's Ranger
The Reciter
Something Special
A Texas Teenager's Week-end Education
Toast the Texas Longhorns
Tools of the Trade
Uncle Hub's Saddle Horse

Fred Ortiz
Cowboy's Prayer

D. K. Osborn
The Nor'easter
Perspective
Stammerin' Spence
The Stand-Off
There Come a Rain
Timing

Nancy Ouding
The Cowboy and the Quarter Horse

Leon Overbay
Children's Christmas Play
The Cross-Eyed Bull
The Grave Digging

Ken Overcast
Givin' a Little Back 
The Longhorn-Harley Davidson Cross
Montana Lullaby
Ol' Fishhook
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer 

Jim Owen
The Drought
The Night Was Quiet
One Last Talk
One of Those Nights Before Christmas
The Prickly Pear Patch
The Rim
Sam T. Nickles
A Song In His Heart
The Widow's Sister 

David Owens
Hold On!

Joe Owens
The Grocery Line

Ray Owens
Alibi Ike
Are You A Cowboy, Mister?
The Boy In The Little Black Hat
First You Feed Your Horse
January Roses
The Saddle His Granddaddy Rode
Some Things Just Never Change
Spellbound
Tracks that Won't Blow Out

P  

Jim "Cowboy Jim" Packard
Alabaster Face
The Anonymous Cowboy
The Nightingale
Ode to Jesse James
Packard's Poker Palooza
Rattlesnakes

Dale E. Page
Cyclone in the Pines
In Memory of Shorty O'Hare
Jack's Cabin
Once We Were Kings

Larry Palmer
Clown'n Around 
Early Morn'n Cowboy "WARNING"
Let'er Buck
A Young Man

Howard Parker
1935 - 2004
The Cowboy Poet
Horse Tradin'
Just Another Indian
The Passin' of an Era
The Thermometer

Susan Parker
Cowboy Kinda Girl
Poet's Lament
Final Ride
Late Born Foal
Painted Pony
Spiritual Source
A Time to Heal (prose)

Ed Parrish
The Automatic Rope
The Christmas Ejection Saddle
The Dallas Nose-hair Mutiny
Hang Him
Circle Flies
Dropping Off

Tom Parrish
All in a Day's Work

Jim Parsons
Cowgirl
First Flight
The Quilt

Jerrie Paschal
Blue Eyed Dog

John Pasqualotto
The Dent on My Head
One Last Gather 
Picture Perfect
Startin' Off Right is the Right Thing to Do
What the Heck You Are Thinking

S. J. Passamonte
A Christmas Thought 
For Cocoa
He Sits Alone
Her One Mistake
In the Barn on Christmas Eve
Jinglebobs a Ringin'
Memories Etched In Leather
Prairie Fire
Them What's Gone Before
Where the Tall Wildflowers Grow

A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
An Answer to Various Bards
Clancy of the Overflow
A Dog's Mistake
In the Droving Days
Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve
Santa Claus
Santa Claus in the Bush
The Man From Snowy River

Perry Payne
The Best Color
A Little Boot
Ridin' Bulls
Spurs

Shad A. Pease 
Brandin' Time
The Chill
Christ Died for Cowboys Too
Panic in the Privy
Passin’ it Down
Phantom Gold
Stampede

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

Sharon Peeples
Her Life Has Been the Best  

Donna Penley
The Christmas Tree Angels

Gord Perry
A Bunch of Belties
The Cyber Cowboy
Hop-a-Long-Hiccup
The Rancher and the Veggie Queen
Winding Down at River Ranch

Bob Petermann
Old Cowboy Waltz
Ranching's Final Stand

Gwen Petersen
Cowboy Poetry
A Cussin' Woman
Those Damned Wire Gates
The Legacy  

H. J. "Hoss" Peterson
Freedom in the Flame
The Horse Psychic
A Prayer for Man and Horse
Why Do You Do It?

Katherine Fall Pettey
Contentment
The Cowpunch and James Whitcomb Riley
The Ladies of the Canyon
Morning on the Desert
A Song of the Plains
The Women That Don't Fit In

Shadd Piehl
All My Relations
Rider's Lament
Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Rick Pitt
Angel of the West
Big Al
A Cowboy Is
Cowboys Rule
Daddy's Eyes
Dallas
Hell's Half Acre
No More
Old Soldiers
One Hell of a Ride
Outlaws and Saints

Verlin Pitt
An Acquired Taste
Big Jim McLane
Billy the Skid
Black Jack
Buttercup
Can't Be Done
A Class Act
The Cowboy Way
Desert Rat 
Dog-gone
A Friend in Need
A Good Ride
Grim for the Reaper
Little Moe the Wrangler
The Mule Whisperer 
Mustang Mania
Rawhide
Silent Thunder
The Spread
The Surprise
Tainted Honey
Turk Wiggin's Last Song
Wind River Whompus
World's Greatest Bullrider

Edgar Allen Poe
El Dorado

Kathie Poirier
The Rancher's Wife

Tom Pollard
Ahm a Cowboy
The Cowboy's Lament
The Great Race

Norm Popp
Boots
The Last Cowpoke
The Legend of Speckled Chief
The Musical Steed

Wade Porter
Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles, 1929

Chelsea M. Portra
The Lone Ranger

Harry Noyes Pratt
The Ballad of Frisco Kate's

George Prell 
The Last of the Cowboys

Jean Prescott
Fair Blows the Wind with Gary Prescott
Old Hank Morgan's Place with Dee Strickland Johnson
Saddle Tale with Yvonne Hollenbeck

Jan Price
A Cowboy's Guiding Star
A Moment's Grace
In Their Own Time

Bob Prinselaar
Flying Lesson

Perry Pruitt
A Closer Look
The "Plain" Facts
Western Treasure

Mike Puhallo
Back in the Saddle
Bad Days Make Good Stories
Balancing the Books
Bawlin' Calves and Burnin' Hair
Branding Time 2006
Burning Daylight!
Canada
A Chilcotin Halloween
Christmas Shopping
Countdown to Christmas
Cow Country Christmas Memory
A Cowboy Christmas
Cowboy for a Day
Cowpoke Déjà Vous
The Daily Chicken Run
Daybreak at Twilight Ranch
Deadman Creek, Blizzard
Doc Mason
Does This Mean the Drought is Over?
Dog Creek, Where Our Traditions Began  
The Dream Team of the Cariboo
Drifters
Economy of Summer 2003 
Elko
Everywhere But Here?
Face to Face
First Sign of Summer!
First Snow
A First Taste of Spring!
Full Moon
G. M. O.?
The Graduate
The Guy on the Radio Says It's Spring!
Hangin' On
Heck It Could Have Been Worse!
Hi Finance
Home From Winter Range
Home on the Range
IF He Could Read My Mind?
"If you got the money, Honey...I got the time."
It Ain't Easy Being Green
Jingle Bells!!
Jump Start Your Day
Kinda Chilly Huh?
Last Week of Summer
Lest We Forget
Life's Little Mysteries
Little White Lies
Living Green Without Even Trying!
Louis Lebourdais, Smartest Man in the Cariboo
The Math Don’t Work!
Merry Procrastination? 
My Four-Legged Muse
My Ponies
Natural Selection
Never Look Back
A New Day
A New Year a New Day!
Ode To Chee Witt
Ode to Robbie Burns
Off to the Rodeo!
Old Trails
Patience, Trust and A Little Luck
Priorities
Resolutions!
Ridin' Rhymes
Rumors...
Running in the Team
A Scene That's Best Unseen
Scour Pills and Roses
Signposts Along the River
Small Boys, Trains, and Outlaws
Sold!
Some Cows Want to Come Home, Some Don't
Spring Wake Up Call!
Springtime in the Rockies
Steep Slopes and Green Horses
A Tale of Two Roans
Tales of the Cariboo Trail
That Ol’ Dumb-Ass Feeling
The Turkey Roundup
Turn Out Time
Understanding the March Hare!
The Upside of Fall
An Uptown Affair
Valentine's Day on the Ranch
What's It All About Charlie Brown
Where Did All Them People Come From?
Whinny, (From The Valley of the Wild Horses)
White Bulls in the Snow
Wild Horse Christmas
Young Horses, Cool Mornings

R

Steve Ralph
I Saw the Man from Snowy River Ride

Helene Renee Ramsay
Brandin' Time
A Cowboy's Life

Buck Ramsey 
Anthem from "And As I Rode Out on the Morning" 
Christmas Waltz
Dunder Defining
One from "And As I Rode Out on the Morning" 
A Ponder from "And As I Rode Out on the Morning" 

Jim Rathell 
Ode to Sandy

Phyllis Rathwell
A Gentle Prod

Lorraine Rawls
Through Her Eyes

Erica Ray
The Land of the Cowgirls

John Reedy
Buckaroo Girl
Aspen & Alpenglow
Beautiful Cubicle

J. K. Reese
Bad Pete's Comin' to Town
Faded Rose
My Cowboy Dreams
My Story
Th' Rest o' th' Story
Why I Love Cowgirls

Mike Reese
A Chosen Few
Handing Down the Reins
A Twilight Song

Eben E. Rexford
The Ride of Paul Venarez

James David Reitz
Christmas Eve at the Silver Dollar Saloon
The Corporate Cowboy
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve
Going Back
Introspection
The Jury
A Little Argument with the Lord

Jackie Rezzonico
Double Trouble

Dave Rhodes
Out Here at Butte Station
Sleep is a Ghost Rider
Take Me Back to Tullemore
We're the Riders

William A. (Bill) Richards
Down the Fenceline

Bobby L. Richardson
Last Man Standing

Pat Richardson
The Auction 
Benny's Cabin 
Benny's Funeral, with Yvonne Hollenbeck
Bigfoot
Billy Baker
Christmas Cheer
Cowboy Banker
A COWBOY (through a heifer's eyes)
The Cow Boss
Ed's Cow Dog 
Ed's Funeral
Ed in Elko
The Evaluation
Here's to the Cowboys
How to Make a Cowboy
Howard Parker a tribute to Howard Parker 
Howdy Friend
I Never
Jackie & Johnny
Merry Christmas
Morning Mist
On the Trail
Our Song
Roundup in the Spring
Second Thoughts
Shep's Poetry
Stop Me
Things a Cowboy Knows, with Kip Calahan
Yvonne Hollenbeck

Chris Riedmueller
I've Hat Me Some Schoolin

Randy Rieman
Leaving Camp

Doyle James Rigdon
The Competition
One Leg
Out in the Cypress
Ropin' the Haredics

Jo Lee T. Riley
Big Bear
Holdin' On
Old Suicide
The Rancher
This Cowhand's Life
A Tip of the Hat
What My Mom's Made Of

James Whitcomb Riley
Decoration Day on the Place
Little Orphant Annie
When the Frost is on the Punkin

Ted Risberg
The O' Man in Red
There'll Be Horses in Heaven

Rolf D. Ritschel
The Last of the Western Heroes

Garrett Ritter
The Ride

Rich Roach
A Cowboy Christmas
Feastin' Time!
Gus 'n Me
Homeword

William Robbins
The Claim
The Ghost Town
Gunny-Sack Bill

Kal Roberts
A Real Cowboy

Gary Robertson
The Cotton Patch
Ruby

Neal A. Robertson
Buffalo Ride

Michael Robinson
Breakfast with My Horse
Buckaroo Boy of the Bronx
But I Can't Say I Care Much for Cows
The Cowboy Sinner's Song
The Darlin' of Eastland
The End of the Drought
Holy Mackerel, You're My Kind of Gal
Just a Little Ranch House
Music on the Wind
My Friend
The Night Watch
The Old Stock Trailer
Prairie Memories
The Real Cowboy Checklist
Savin' the Ranch
Seasons of the Cowboy
Tribute to Lane Frost:  The Earth's a Fickle Mama
The Weaver from Hell 
Windstorm of the Century
Yes, Ma'am.  Just Call Me Slim

Francine Roark Robison
America's Heroes 
Bull Rider's Lament
A Cowboy Christmas
The Cowboy Christmas Ball
Envy
The Farmer's Wife
Fixin' to Get Excitin'  
Growin' up Cowboy -- and Cowgirl!
Home Cookin'
I See Wild Horses Running Free
It's Saddlin' Up Time
Lonely
North to Abilene
The Prodigal Cowboy
Ride, Little Cowboy
Roger and the Rattlesnake
Roll On
Rude Awakening
Rusty Spurs
Thanksgiving
Trail Makers
When Daddy Came Home From the Field
When Summer Days Have Shortened
When I Grow Up

Mason Rockafellow
10 Years Gatherin'.

Wayne Rogers
Rabbits Revenge

Lincoln Rogers
Christmas Message
Couldn't if I Tried
December's Trail Home
From Ashes
Honorable Mention
I Knew Him
Last Long Ride
A Life Untamed
The Most of It
The Pilfered Slice
Ride the Light
Ride with Him Again
To Be, Or...
Won't Give Up

Steve Rohlman
A Visit From St. Nick?

Kent Rollins
Frugal Cowboy Meal
Horseshoes and Heaven
The Vision

Bruce Roseland
Branding Cattle
Just Another Day at the Ranch
Premature Calf
Remember Me

Jim Ross
Prayer on the Wind

Sherri Ross
Jake
Seasons

Connie Rossignol
Addendum to In Defense of Donkeys
Connie's Resume
Do Real Cowgirls Eat Soy?
For Paul and Lisa
In Defense of Donkeys
A Matchin' Team
Of Donkeys and Reindeer 
Stampede Strings
Thanks, Doc

Norm Rourke
Anazazi
Christmas Comes in a Chevy Truck
Emmett Dalton at Horsethief Canyon
The Fiddler
The Ghost
It's How You Think, Cowboy
Just Another Cowboy
The Legend
Little Jake
Lost Love
Love Lost
Luther Morse
Peaceful Valley Town
Pioneer Woman
The Stranger
The Truth of the West
This Old Hat

Djinn Ruffner
Another Day

Dennis Russell
Is This the Last Gather?
Just His Life
That Old Yellow Horse

George Ray Russell
The Extra Bonus

John G. Russell, III 
Sagebrush Serenade

S   

Col. Mike Sacher
Sold His Saddle

Braska Sackett
Smart Man

Janis Saket
His First Lesson

Rusty Salmon
Mornin' Musings
My Introduction to Rural Life
Never Too Late

Jack Sammon
After the Wet 
Droving Memories
The Drovers Reunion
Edna Zigenbine
Looking Back
On the Road with Rocklands Cattle (story in the Cowboy Memories project)
Rusty Spurs
Talawanta (story in the Cowboy Memories project)
Those Droving Days
Visions of the Past
The Wet

Earl Sampson
A Little Bit of Lickin'

Harvey T. Sampson 
Aces and Eights
The Buckle
Store Bought Teeth

May Sanders
Going Home
Hey-Day

Terry Sanders
Casey's Out Tonight
It Still Takes a Cowboy

Deidre Santesso
On the Rails

Bruce Satta
A Bit Colder
Boot Hill
Butterfly
The Cagy Lot
Checkin' Every Post for Rod Nichols
Chisholm Lullaby
Christmas Eve, Near Rabbit Creek
Chuckles
A Corner of Heaven
The Cowboy Poet
Easy Into Mornin'
Fact That I'm Believin'
For My Valentine
For the Dust
Grampa Is A Feisty Sort
Headin' for Home
In the Mornin' Hours
Notes on Lonesome Crick
Onward, Ever Onward
Pickup Lines
Santa's Hat
September in Wyoming
Shadows of Change
Somethin' in the Air
A Story or Two
Temperance
When You and I Are Old
Where The Rainy Days Are Sunny

Lori Saulsbury
Wild Horses

Charlette Sause
Running on Instinct
Sandhills Robin Hood
The Scent of Rain
The Trap
Trails

Cleo Savage
Cosinero
I Rode With Bob Wills

Fred Scalzo
Lullaby for My Cowdog

Cade Schalla
Colored Water
Nuts and Bolts
When Cowboys Saved Christmas

Lesley Schatz
Coyote Moon
Song of the Wind and the Rain
Wild, Lonesome Place

Rex Schechter
The Quarter Horse

Ivy Schexnayder
Horse and Rider

Kevin Schieffer
Cowboys
Ridin' Bulls

Bob Schild
The Button and the Champ
Christmas 2003
College Cowboy
The Cowboy, Passing of a Legend
Light the Board
Lockjaw Virgil
The Long Ride
Marauder
Ode to an Old Friend
Poetic Horses
Ride for Ninety-One
Roundup on The Blackfoot
The Rustler
Santa Comes Calvin'
Shorty
Two of a Kind

Charlene Schilling
The Ballad of Jo-Ann Lee
I'm Not An All-Round Cowboy 
Understanding

Jerry Schleicher
Catchin' the Local News
The Chigger Blues
The Gambler and the Dairyman
Headquarters Motel
Hopper Invasion
An Inch or Two of Rain
The Legend of the Missouri Mule
Livin' in Hail Alley
Midnight Spectre
Night Thoughts
Ode to Road Hogs
The Parts Run
The Road Hunters
The Schoolhouse Christmas Tree
The Scotts Bluff County Fair
Stackin' Hay Ain't for Sissies
Where Spring Comes Late
White-on-white

Johnie Schneider
The Black Beauty 

Tiff Schneider
The Measure of Life

Joe Schonert
A Cowboy's Job

Michael "Coyote" Schroll 
At the Airport
The Cowboy and the Cowgirl
The Cowboy Poet
Fright
High on a Hill
Smudged Glass
A Wild Place

James B. Scoville
The Old Elk Speaks

Sandy Seaton
Code of the West
Horse Training 101
The Wolf

J. D. Seibert
An Allergic Reaction
The Bachelor Buckaroo
Chaps
Galleries of the Heart for Joelle Smith 
Heart of the West
The Horse Psychic
Ropin' 101
Spurs

Ruth Sellnow
A Calling Out West

Katharina Sennholz
One of the Nights (When Civilization Hurts)

Robert Service
Anonymous
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill 
The Ballad of Hard Luck Henry
Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
Clancy of the Mounted Police
The Cow-Juice Cure
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Dolls
Land of Beyond
The Men Who Don't Fit In
My Friends
My Masterpiece
The Parson's Son
The Quitter
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Spell of the Yukon
The Three Voices
A Trapper's Christmas Eve

Lloyd Shelby
A Cowboy's Prayer
Desert Angel
Devil Jack
The Gift
Memories
The Old Colt
Ole Blue
Rainman
The Stranger
Twenty-One Today -- A Trilogy
Young Buck

Lynn Sheppard
Cold Calf
Flip-Flop Wrangler
Grandpa's Cattle Drive
Laptop at the Chute
Prairie Storm, New Years 2007

William Bill Shiel
A Desert Hike (A Cowboy Retires)

Barry Shrader
My Pony Threw Me

Georgie Sicking
Be Yourself
Old Bay
The Spirit of Christmas
A Time for Remembering
To Be a Top Hand

Jeremy Sigle 
On the Other Side of the Chutes

Darla Silva
Helping Hand

John Silveira
The Coat
Cowboy Christmas
Leather Creakin'
Time Alone

John David Simpson
The Cowboy Trail
The Coyote Calls

Bonita Sipe
The Poor Buckaroo

Paula Sisk
Cow Girl Wanna Be
Dry as a Bone
Dust (in Omar's saga)
Favorite Pair
Hardware
Indian Rain Dance
Sweet Lucille (The First Cowgirl)
The Thistle Wars
A Tribute to the Bandanna
Weed Wonderin'
Wet Weather Creek

Rhoda Sivell
The Broncho Buster 
Come with Me to the Old Range 
The Cow-Girl
Happy Days 
The Motherless Calf 
The Old Saskatchewan 
Our Last Ride 
The Range Call
They Keep A-Stealing on You in the Night
Voices from The Range 

M. D. (Denny) Sisson
Old Buddies

Clara Smith
Memories for Joelle Smith

Brad Smith (see French Camp Red)

Bryan (Bj) Smith
Rock Lake

Willie P. Smith
Charlie's Fence
Cowboy's Talk with God
That Danged Horse
The Diamond Back
Forgotten Heroes
Rowdy
Winter of '79
You Keep the Mule

Jay Snider
Banjo and John
Biscuits
Burning Daylight
The Cattle Market
The Dream
Dying Breed
Four Little Words
A Good Day to be a Cowboy
He Always Rode Good Horses
Minor Adjustments
My Old Amigo Lum
Never Shop on Christmas Eve
Of Horses and Men
The Pearly Gates
Progress
A Real Cowboy Poet
Santa's Helper
Shorthorn Pete
Three Hundred Miles to Go
A Tribute to Tom
The Twister
Two of a Kind
Tyrone and Tyree

Ann Sochat
American Cowboys
And How I'd Ride
Cowboys Don't Cry
Cowboy Romance
The Coyote
A Good Lickin
Grandma
Heroes
Hoof and Mouth Disease
Tracking the Cat

Kip Sorlie
And Still the Story Grows
In Living Memory
Not Yet
Remembering Fathers
Rings
Who We Are

Chance Sowell
A Cowboy's Thoughts On The Fine Folks
A Cowboy's Time Machine 
The Dream
The Gravedigger Wins Either Way
Iron Horse Cowboy
The Long Ride Back Home
Nighthawkin' When Storm Clouds Blew In
Ode to My Old Friend Bo
Our Indian Friend 
The Preacher And Ol' Scratch
Rainy Day Prayer
Tribute To The Old BAR-D
Why I Don't Ride Bulls

Roy G. Sowers 
Little Joe

Connie Spittler
Looking at the Rillito River
Tom Mix, the Whoop-de-do, Bon Vivant Cowboy

Ezra Spur
The Ballad of Hank Holmes
Blue
The Bunkwife
Cowboy
The Cowboys
Dakota True 
Ode to the Quarter Moon
The Old Man
One Day on a Ride
Ordinary Joe
The Poets
The Reckoning of Asa Cane
Shaving Cream Santa Claus
Skunk Trouble
Somewhere Down the Trail
That Old Mousy Cow
The Tree
The Visit
Where the Blue Stem Grows
Wrecks

Newt Starr
By Gosh, By Gum & By Golly

Red Steagall
Born to This Land
The Fence That Me and Shorty Built
The Memories in Grandmother's Trunk

Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns
Born to Ride
Born to Ride (for Mattie Goff Newcombe)
Charlie (for Charlie Hunt)
Christmas Way Out West
Cowboy Heroes
The Explanation 
Fiddleback Headquarters
Givin Thanks
Grampaw's Elf
The Jing-Jangs
Kenneth
Livin' Free
Love Song to Wyoming
Ode to the Snubbin' Post
Our Dear Friend Homer
Our Jack 
Perfection in Art (for Kyle Evans)
Pullin' Leather
Rain
The Reason for Dead Deer
The Rest of the Story 
Rodeo Stock 
Shippin' 
Shippin' Points
A Size-able Quandry 
Spurs
Surprise!!
Two Cowboys
Wonderin'

Harry Stephens
Night-Herding Song

Pat Stephenson
Just Another Day

TR Stephenson
Back to Texas
The Bible and the Pistol
Crimson Creek
The Back Trail
False Teeth
Fog from the Hills
He Cusses
I Was the Lady
The Lie
Listenin' to Their Prayers
The Live Oak Tree
Long Way from Texas
Never Get Old Man
The Onion and the Rat
Plowin'
Snow in Oklahoma
Ten Thousand Years
Tortillas
Warrior's Lament 
West Texas Wind

Erin Stern
October

Mike Stevens
Critique of Pure Reason
Little Snow
Old Ropin' Jack
A Rattlesnake's Lament