Cowgirl Poetry: One Hundred Years of Ridin' and Rhymin' Book

	Introduction	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Those Who've Gone Before
	The Range Call	15
	The Ranch in the Coulee	16
	Herd a-Passin'	17
	Grass	19
	Hail and Farewell	21
	All That Is Left	23
	Roses for a Cowgirl	24
	The Edge	27
	Little Jo Monaghan	29
	Brander Sisters	31
	Lilac Time	33
	Heaven's Branding	37
	Growing Up Western
	Jinglin' the Horses Home	41
	Rain in the Night	43
	Wild Morning Glories	44
	His Cowgirl Rides the Copper Horse	45
	I Never Wanted to "Mother Up"	46
	The Hired Man	48
	Be Yourself	50
	The Overseer	52
	The Cowtank	55
	Independence	57
	Hot Iron	58
	Fredonia	60
	She Loved Her Horses	62
	For Brandy at Age 21	65
	Ridin'	66
	The Muster	67
	El Fuego de Sonora	68
	An Owner's Lament	70
	Little Horse	73
	To Foxy	74
	The Greatest Sport	76
	Country Girls	78
	Listen	79
	A Cowgirl & Her Work
	Post Script: Texas Wimmen	81
	Where the Pelican Builds	82
	A Little Red Self-Propelled Baler	83
	Round-Up Hand	86
	His Place or Mine	89
	Generic Titles	91
	Cowgirls of the '30s	92
	Dry Camps	95
	The Bay with the Star and a Snip	96
	Shouldn't We Go to the House for a Horse?	99
	The Cook	102
	Hands of Leather	105
	Living With Nature & Animals
	Cattle	108
	Mother to Mother	109
	The Rhyme of the Pronghorns	110
	Coyote Song	112
	Among Udder Things	115
	Somethin' Strange	118
	The Granny Cow	119
	Four-Leaf Clover	120
	The Lone Post	121
	Stinky Tenant	123
	Lone Dog	124
	Hank Warner's Lucky Burro	125
	Sammy Blue's Rabbit Chasing Days	127
	Smell of Rain	128
	Another Drought	130
	The Heart of a Cowgirl
	The Bucking Bronco	133
	Our Last Ride	134
	For Fred	135
	Yellow Slicker	136
	Return	138
	Unfaithful	139
	Skipping Rocks	141
	The Hired Man's Wife	142
	Tomboy	144
	Horseback, Through Snow	146
	You Ride Away	147
	Cowboy Courtin' Time	148
	Little Duck	150
	Love of the Land & the Lifestyle
	They Keep a-Stealing on You in the Night	153
	The Cattleman's Prayer	154
	Ridin'	156
	The Darkest Hour	157
	Livin' Free	162
	The First Sure Signs of Spring	164
	An Old Monarch	166
	Real Wealth	167
	Sure Am Lucky	169
	100 Years from Now	170
	The Silence	173
	Wrong Road	174
	Observations on Life & Men
	Man-sized Job	176
	Two Dogs	177
	Hats Off	178
	Mortgage One Good Wife	179
	Vera	182
	A Blinding Hell of Driving Snow	184
	July Thunderstorms	185
	Geezers and Crones	187
	Keeping an Eye Out	189
	Bones	191