The Rains (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
You've watched the ground-hog's shadow and the shiftin' weather signsTill the Northern prairie starred itse'f with flowers;You've seen the snow ...
Badger Clark Jr Poems (27 Poems)
The Legend Of Boastful Bill (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
At a roundup on the Gily,One sweet mornin' long ago,Ten of us was throwed right freelyBy a hawse from Idaho.And ...
The Border (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
When the dreamers of old Coronado,From the hills where the heat ripples run,Made a dust to the far ColoradoAnd wagged ...
The Glory Trail (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
(High-Chin Bo'Way high up the Mogollons,Among the mountain tops,A lion cleaned a yearlin's bonesAnd licked his thankful chops,When on the ...
God’s Reserves (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
One time, 'way back where the year marks fadeGod said: "I see I must lose my West,The place where I've ...
The Plainsmen (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Men of the older, gentler soil,Loving the things that their fathers wrought--Worn old fields of their father's toil,Scarred old hills ...
The Old Cow Man (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
I rode across a valley rangeI hadn't seen for years.The trail was all so spoilt and strangeIt nearly fetched the ...
The Free Wind (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
I went and worked in a drippin' mine'Mong the rock and the oozin' wood,For the dark it seemed lit with ...
The Christmas Trail (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
The wind is blowin' cold down the mountain tips of snowAnd 'cross the ranges layin' brown and dead;It's cryin' through ...
The Bunk-House Orchestra (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out,Tune your old guitarra till she twangs right stout,For the snow is on ...
Roundup Lullaby (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Desert blue and silver in the still moonshine,Coyote yappin' lazy on the hill,Sleepy winks of lightnin' down the far sky ...
The Westerner (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
My fathers sleep on the sunrise plains,And each one sleeps alone.Their trails may dim to the grass and rains,For I ...
The Passing Of The Trail (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
There was a sunny, savage landBeneath the eagle's wings,And there, across the thorns and sand,Wild rovers rode as kings.Is it ...
Ridin’ (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
There is some that like the city-Grass that's curried smooth and green,Theaytres and stranglin' collars,Wagons run by gasoline-But for me ...
The Lost Pardner (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
I ride alone and hate the boys I meet.Today, some way, their laughin' hurts me so.I hate the mockin'-birds in ...
Bachin’ (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Our lives are hid; our trails are strange;We're scattered through the WestIn canyon cool, on blistered rangeOr windy mountain crest.Wherever ...
The Song Of The Leather (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
When my trail stretches out to the edge of the skyThrough the desert so empty and bright,When I'm watchin' the ...
The Outlaw (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old,By the foot or the neck or the horn,He kin plunge and fight ...
A Cowboy’s Prayer (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
(Written for Mother)Oh Lord, I've never lived where churchesgrow.I love creation better as it stoodThat day You finished it so ...
A Bad Half Hour (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Wonder why I feel so restless;Moon is shinin' still and bright,Cattle all is restin' easy,But I just kain't sleep tonight.Ain't ...
The Piano At Red’s (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
'Twas a hold called Red's SaloonIn La Vaca Town;'Twas an old piano there,Blistered, marred and brown,And a man more battered ...
God Of The Open (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
God of the open, though I am so simpleOut in the wind I can travel with you,noons when the hot ...
On Boot Hill (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Up from the prairie and through the pines,Over your struggling headboard linesWinds of the West go by.You must love them, ...
The Wind Is Blowin’ (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
My tired horse nickers for his own home bars;A hoof clicks out a spark.The dim creek flickers to the lonesome ...
Others (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
The daybreak comes so pure and still.He said that I was pure as dawn,That day we climbed to Signal Hill.Back ...
The Coyote (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Trailing the last gleam after,In the valleys emptied of light,Ripples a whimsical laughterUnder the wings of the night.Mocking the faded ...
To Her (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Cut loose a hundred rivers,Roaring across my trail,Swift as the lightning quivers,Loud as a mountain gale.I build me a board ...