Cowboy Poetry Classic Rhymes Prose By Badger Clark

The author, a prize-winning cowboy poet, delivers the reality of the West through this, his third collection of original western and cowboy poetry. His work is pointed toward remembering, preserving, sharing, and celebrating our western and cowboy heritage and traditions. The poems are drawn, primarily, from his experience as a young cowboy in the Sandhills of Nebraska in the 1930's and 1940's. They are also influenced by his pre-teen acquaintance with Badger Clark, the classic cowboy poet, who was then Poet Laureate of South Dakota.

Presents the verse of a Montana cowboy poet, along with a series of newspaper articles on Old West history, including accounts of the Indian wars and a transcription of Chief Joseph's story.

There is one cowboy poet whose work has the absolute, real, bona fide, gritty ring of experience and truth. Bruce Kiskaddon lived the live. He wrangled, he roped, he rode, he wrecked, he suffered all kinds of weather. He did Not embellish the life. But he remembers and recreates the historic world of the ranch and range of the late 19th and early 20th century.

This book offers the first in-depth examination of a distinctive and community-based tradition rich with larger-than-life heroes, vivid occupational language, humor, and unblinking encounters with birth, death, nature, and animals in the poetry.