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Echoes of the past : the cowboy poetry of Melvin Whipple

Title
Echoes of the past : the cowboy poetry of Melvin Whipple / by Melvin Whipple ; illustrated by Lucky Whipple ; edited by Jim McNutt.
Author
Whipple, Melvin
Publication
San Antonio, Tex. : University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, ©1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Whipple, Lucky
  • McNutt, James C.
Description
48 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Melvin Whipple is a Texas cowboy by chance. He grew up on the family ranch in the Arizona Strip. This is a collection of his cowboy poetry by Melvin and illustrated by his son Lucky.
Subject
  • Cowboys > Poetry
  • Cowboys > Poésie
  • Cowboys
  • West (U.S.) > Poetry
  • West United States
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Contents
Foreward / Jim McNutt -- Preface / Melvin L. Whipple -- Open range -- Electric storm -- The Cowboy -- Cold irons -- It's been a long time, Pardner -- A bad night at the CL Ranch -- The Little Bar Zee -- Escape from reality -- Do ya think ya could do it agin? -- How they lived -- Memories of the past -- Tranquilizer pills -- The Orejana bull -- Cowpuncher's wife -- When the homesteaders came -- Back on the Old Home Range -- The big Horseshoe Bend -- Why am I Ball-Headed? -- Lonesome nights -- The Big Hell Hole -- Glossary.
ISBN
  • 0867010347
  • 9780867010343
OCLC
  • ocm26669854
  • 26669854
  • SCSB-1954691
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library