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Thread #77647 Message #2684810
Posted By: Artful Codger
21-Jul-09 - 05:38 PM
Thread Name: western songs for women?
Subject: RE: western songs for women?
If you care to write some music, you might check out some of the cowgirl poets. A good place to start is the collection Cowgirl Poetry (mostly modern), ed. Virginia Bennett. Also Poems of the Old West, ed. Levette J. Davidson, 1951 (limited viewing at Google Books), and the Cowboy Poetry site (http://www.cowboypoetry.com/).
Some individual women poets of the old west:
Rhoda Sivell (w. Canada, 1874-1962), Voices from the Range, 1911 - search the Cowboy Poetry site
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) - see Project Gutenburg
Sarah Elizabeth Howard (), Pen Pictures of the Plains, 1902 - see Google Books
Harriet L. Wason, Letters from Colorado, 1887
Lillian White Spenser (Denver), Arrowheads, 1929
Nellie Burget Miller (Colo. Springs), Earthen Bowls, 1924; The Sun Drops Red, 1947.