Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, edited by Greg Scott (Phoenix, AZ: Cowboy Miner Productions, 2005)

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Contents

Acknowledgements 7
Preface 9
Badger Clark, the Cowboy Poet 11

Poetry 19

A Bad Half Hour 23
A Border Affair 28
A Cowboy's Prayer 25
A Loveletter 67
A Ranger 39
A Roundup Lullaby 35
Arizony's Probation 93
Awhile 97
Campsmoke 91
Cowboy and Coyote 72
Exiled Black Hiller 69
From Town 30
Girl Wanted—Mistletoe 71
Good-Bye Old Forty-Five 81
In the Smoker 95
Mountain Music 98
Ode to the Busted Comb 89
Pals 103
Plains Born 55
Poem to Harry Kendall 107
Ridin' 21
Saturday Night 57
Semi-Arid 106
The Border 45
The Bunk-House Orchestra 37
The Canyon Trail 99
The Christmas Trail 48
The Glory Trail 42
The Legend of Boastful Bill 32
The Long Way 61
The Losers 86
The Old Cow Man 52
The Old Trailer 73
The Open 96
The Piano at Red's 26
The Requiem of the Big Heart 77
The Roundup 65
The Rover's Toast 79
The Song of the Leather 50
The Stake 75
The Wind Is Blowin' 60
The Yellow Stuff 58
To Julia Elizabeth 101
To the Lady of South Pass on Her Birthday Feb. 17, 1908 83
Trail Song 96
Notes on Poems 108

Photo Album 111
Short Stories 117

A Deal in Mules 205
A Great Institution 141
A Wind to Heaven 219
All for Nothing 149
Don't Spoil His Aim! 233
Great-Grandma Girl 367
Hearts and Clubs 195
In the Natural 167
Lovely Day! 285
Matters of Religion 309
Scat! 321
The Gift of the Lamp 129
The Gloria Kids 175
The Guiding Star 381
The Gumbo Lily 335
The Home-Wreckers 351
The Kind Man 119
The Little Widow 157
The Price of Liberty 271
The Sacred Salt 185
The Wise Man 295
The Young Hero 259
Tuck's Quiet Wedding 247
That Was the Life! 395
Notes on the Short Stories 402

Essays 405

Hermitry 413
Mexico, Cowards and Fools—Fall In! 407
My Father and I 406
Prose and Worse 423
Notes on Essays 427
About the Editor 429