Cowboy poets & cowboy poetry

Cowboy poetry then and now: an overview / David Stanley

PART 1: BACKGROUNDS: Making something fine / Kim Stafford

Why cowboy poetry? Some thoughts toward an answer / James S. Griffith

"The rain is the sweat of the sky": cowboy poetry as American ethnopoetics / Scott Preston

The tradition of cowboy poetry / Guy Logsdon

Cowboy poetry: a poetry of exile / Hal Cannon

PART 2: PROCESS: Change and oral tradition in cowboy poetry / Warren Miller

Cowboy libraries and lingo / Buck Ramsey

Orderly disorder: form and tension in cowboy poetry / David Stanley

Poems and songs on the rodeo trail / Glenn Ohrlin

Hitching verse to tune: the relationship of cowboy song to poetry / Charlie Seemann

Cottonseed cake and pickups: where cowboy poetry came from / Bill Lowman

PART 3: PORTRAITS: A Montana cowboy poet / John I. White

"Some folks wouldn't understand it" : a study of Henry Herbert Knibbs / Ronna Lee Sharpe and Tom Sharpe

Ray Lashley: an interview with a frontier reciter / Carol Edison and Ray Lashley

The makin's of a cowboy poet / Jon Bowerman

PART 4: THEMES: Families, neighbors, and friends: the tradition of cow-country poetry / Sue Wallis

Nature and cowboy poetry / Craig Miller

Women and cowboy poetry / Elaine Thatcher

A new wind out of the West: the poetry of contemporary ranch women / Teresa Jordan

PART 5: CONNECTIONS: Levantando versos and other vaquero voices: oral traditions of South Texas Mexican American cowboys / Cynthia L. Vidaurri

Cows and logs: commonalities and poetic dialogue among cowboys and loggers in the Pacific Northwest / Jens Lund

The poetic traditons of the gaucho / William Katra

Australian bush poetry / Keith McKenry

PART 6: DEVELOPMENTS: Cowboys, folklorists, authenticity, and tourism / James C. McNutt

Cowboy poetics at the millennium / John C. Dofflemyer

Making ourselves at home / William Kittredge.