Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry Book

	Preface
1	Cowboy Poetry Then and Now: An Overview	1
2	Making Something Fine	22
3	Why Cowboy Poetry? Some Thoughts toward an Answer	31
4	"The Rain Is the Sweat of the Sky": Cowboy Poetry as American Ethnopoetics	39
5	The Tradition of Cowboy Poetry	52
6	Cowboy Poetry: A Poetry of Exile	62
7	Change and Oral Tradition in Cowboy Poetry	73
8	Cowboy Libraries and Lingo	88
9	Orderly Disorder: Form and Tension in Cowboy Poetry	107
10	Poems and Songs on the Rodeo Trail	125
11	Hitching Verse to Tune: The Relationship of Cowboy Song to Poetry	135
12	Cottonseed Cake and Pickups: Where Cowboy Poetry Comes From	142
13	A Montana Cowboy Poet	153
14	"Some Folks Wouldn't Understand It": A Study of Henry Herbert Knibbs	175
15	Ray Lashley: An Interview with a Frontier Reciter	186
16	The Makin's of a Cowboy Poet	201
17	Families, Neighbors, and Friends: The Tradition of Cow-Country Poetry	215
18	Nature and Cowboy Poetry	226
19	Women and Cowboy Poetry	239
20	A New Wind Out of the West: The Poetry of Contemporary Ranch Women	247
21	Levantando Versos and Other Vaquero Voices: Oral Traditions of South Texas Mexican American Cowboys	261
22	Cows and Logs: Commonalities and Poetic Dialogue among Cowboys and Loggers in the Pacific Northwest	273
23	The Poetic Tradition of the Gaucho	299
24	Australian Bush Poetry	315
25	Cowboys, Folklorists, Authenticity, and Tourism	341
26	Cowboy Poetics at the Millennium	351
27	Making Ourselves at Home	363
	Contributors	371
	Index	377