The Classic Cowboy Bush Poetry of The Range Writers

The Range Writers features cowboy and bush poetry of a bygone era that is of such enduring excellence that it is considered a classic; but The Range Writers is also proud to feature contemporary poems and poets that are TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN. This web site is dedicated to the cowboy poets, past and present, who rode the range on their pens and helped to preserve the spirit and memory of the Old West. In a poem written in 1917, Charles M. Russell said this:

The West is dead my friend
But writers hold the seed
And what they sow
Will live and grow
Again for those who read

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CLASSIC POETS

A. B. Banjo Patterson.................... The Man From Snowy River

S. Omar Barker............................. Thirsty Cowboy

Arthur Chapman.................. Out Where The West Begins
Out Among The Big Things

Charles "Badger" Clark ................A Cowboy's Prayer ;
A Border Affair (Spanish Is The Loving Tongue) High Chin Bob

Gail Gardner.............................. Sierry Pete(Tying Knot In Devil's Tail)

Antoine D'Arcy............................. Face On The Bar Room Floor

Curly Fletcher .............................. Strawberry Roan

Bad Brahma Bull

Bret Harte..................................... The Old Camp Fire

Bruce Kiskaddon........................... Smoke
Finished Shipping Cattle In The Fall

Henry Herbert Knibbs .................. Punchin' Dough

Boomer Johnson

Where Ponies Came To Drink

Make Me No Grave

Henry Lawson................................ Past Carin'

Texas Jack

D. J. O'Malley...................... When The Work's All Done This Fall

Charlie Russell................................. Old Timers

Robert Service................................ The Spell Of The Yukon

The Shooting Of Dan McGrew

The Men That Don't Fit In

Jack Thorp...................................... Little Joe The Wrangler

Anonymous (Questionable)............ The Streets Of Laredo

CONTEMPORARY POETS

Van Criddle.............................................................."16 Horses"

AWA Cowboy Poet Of The Year 2006 (Male)....... Mike Logan

Rod Nichols ......................................................... "Cutter Bill"

Rod Miller ..................."LUCK -But Not Exactly The Beginner' Kind"

Debra Coppinger Hill ........................................ "The Yellow Slicker"

Michael "Boots" Robinson................ "The Earth's A Fickle Momma"

.Dee Strickland Johnson.................................... "Winds Of The West"

Carole Jarvis...................................................... "A Style All Their Own"

Jack Sammon.........................."The Legend Of "Edna Zigenbine"
                                                                              "Rusty Spurs" ;
                                                                              "After The Wet";
                                                                              "Drovers Reunion"

Chris Isaacs ....................................................... "Thanks, Grandpa"

Roger Traweek ..................................................."Angus McTavish
"Strong Medicine"

Jo Lynn Kirkwood............................................... "The Last Round Up"

Doc Stovall .......................................................... "The Search"

Brian Brannon...................................................... " The Crow"

Kent Stockton......................................"The Campfire Ain't Quite Out"
"Better Times"

D. W. Groethe.......................................................... "Fifty A Day"
"There's A Silence"

Dee Strickland Johnson............."The Last Stage Robbery - Pearl Hart"

Bette Wolf Duncan............................. "The Old Man Was A Cowboy"
"8 Seconds From Glory"

Mike Puhallo..................................................... "The Tender Trap"
"Scour Pills and Roses"

Clark Crouch..................................................... "Antique Boots"

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Great Cowboy poetry about the Old West!

Russell Country

    This collection of cowboy poetry is an echo of the stories Bette Wolf Duncan heard as a granddaughter of early Montana and North Dakota pioneers. The Old West poems contain memories of a time when the great buffalo herds still thundered through the valleys, when Cheyenne and Crow still camped around the Yellowstone River, when mountain men and cowboys, prospectors and miners, rustlers and vigilantes still populated Russell Country. The New West poems concern contemporary cowboy life.  Russell Country features the art of Charlie Russell, Frederick Remington and N. C. Wyeth. It was published by Hancock House Publishers.

                        Rodeo Country

       The author, Bette Wolf Duncan, grew up in southeastern Montana, not far from the Wyoming border. This is Rodeo Country; and she celebrates this rich western heritage with poems and photos of regional rodeo champions. She is the granddaughter of early Montana and North Dakota pioneers; and she was married to a former cowboy whose grandparents were among the earliest ranchers in southeast Montana. She can still hear with her heart the pioneers tales of relatives and other old-timers. This book is the echo of their tales and of good times remembered. It contains a collection of poetry and written accounts that embody much of the history and events that shaped Montana and Wyoming.

The book is $12.95. You can order it snail mail:
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