Cowboy Poetry

by Julie Saffel

Book Overview

A engaging and powerful work, Cowboy Poetry is a book of poems written by cowboys, for cowboys from the Appalachian hills to the rolling plains of Texas. Inside Cowboy Poetry you will find poems that make you laugh, cry and wonder about what it was really like to traverse the open expanses of the West before roads, trains and planes could take you everywhere. Some might call portions of the writing light-hearted or label it as a caricature of real...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078583267X
• ISBN13: 9780785832676
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Castle Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

the real thing for real cowboys

I gave a copy as a gift and now everybody in my family wants one. My grandfather recognized the words to old songs he remembered his own father singing to him when he was a boy as they rode together on horseback in northern Mexico. My grandmother recognized other ballads she remembered learning for the first time as a grade-schooler in eastern Arizona.

Cowboy Poetry

I thought the introduction was very informative and prepared you for the contents of the book. I did not realize the word expressions from that time frame, it was very enjoyable and entertaining. This is a book to keep and hand down to next generations. The cowboy poetry is a rare look into the past and needs to be kept alive. I was impressed with the bibliography.