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Wallace McRae (Author), Clinton McRae (Illustrator)
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January 28, 1992

Wally McRae is a classic among today's cowboy poets. He recites his poems regularly on a syndicated television program, "The West," and often is a featured performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. He has performed at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, among other places. In 1990 McRae became the first cowboy poet to be granted a National Heritage Award from the NEA in Washingto, D.C. And all this while managing his family's 30,000-acre cow-calf ranch in Forsyth, Montana.

McRae began writing poetry over twenty-five years ago in an attempt to record the values, humor and plight of his occupation. He leaves no western subject uncovered. His topics range from hat etiquette and hollyhocks to ballad-like tales and cowboy nostalgia. Three previous books of his poems have been published. This wonderful collection contains over fifty of his most popular poems, including classics such as "Reincarnation" and "Give Us a Son, Ian Tyson," along with forty new poems published here for the first time.


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Ain't No Cowboy Heaven
Anothe Cowboy
Applied Genesis
Bareback Rider
The Belt
Bill Seward, King Of The Jersey Lilly
Boot Shopping
Box Elders
Broke, Afoot And Old
Call Anytime
Charles Finley Parking
The Clincher
Clint
Coffee
Commuted Sentence
The Complaint Cowboy
A Conversation With Albert
A Cost-return Analysis
Cowboy Curmudgeon
The Coyote
Custer Country
The Debut
Definitions Of Poor
Degrees Of Water
Different Drummers
The Disputed Epicure
Dock Groom
E.m. (red) Kluver
Eminent Domain
Exodus
Gabe Foster
Give Us A Song, Ian Tyson
Gooseberries
Grandmother's French Hollyhocks
The Grass-fat Steers
The Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive
Handy Harry
Hat Etiquette
Hired Hand
Holiday Season
The Homestead House
Howdy, Mr. Hunter
I Knowed Old Charlie Well
In Quest Of The Festive Bough
Jerry Kinzel
The Land
The Lingo Of Our Callin'
Little Things
The Livestock Leader
Maggie
Malcolm And The Stranglers
Me And The Hippie On The Greyhound Bus
My Requiem
National Park
Ol' Proc
Old Bluffer
The Old Men In The Lobby
Old Speed And Two Milk Cows
On Rural Relocation
One More Shipping Day
An Ounce Of Prevention
Our Communion
Outriders At The End Of The Trail
Pax Vobiscum
Put That Back...hoedown
A Quiet Night On The Prairie
Rachel
Ranch Wife
Red Pup, Bonine And Owl
Reincarnation
Rider's Block
Rodeo
Roundup's Over
A Salute To The Cowboy Artists
Shopping
Signs
Snuffy And Sodie And The Cowboy Code
Sold To The Highest Bidder
Telephone Call
Ten Thousand Places
Things Of Intrinsic Worth
Three Dogs Sat On The Sidewalk
The Torch Is Passed
Touchy Questions
Up North Is Down The Crick
Urban Cowboy
Vegetable Cultivation
We Never Rode The Judiths
Weeds
What Kind Of An Outfit You Got?
Winter Moisture
A Woman's Place Is In The Home. That Always Has Made Sense
The Yellowstone
Zack Tilman
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Contents Boot Shopping We Never Rode the Judiths The Coyote Up North is Down the Crick Three Dogs Sat on the Sidewalk The Belt A Quiet Night on the Prairie The Gras-Fat Steers A Woman's Place Gabe Foster Eminent Domain The Disputed Epicure A Conversation with Albert One More Shipping Day Ranch Wife Maggie The Homestead House Exodus Old Speed and Two Milk Cows Coffee Winter Moisture "I Knowed Old Charlie Well" Hat Etiquette Broke, Afoot and Old Bill Seward, King of the Jersey Lillly Commuted Sentence Another Cowboy An Ounce of Prevention In Quest of the Festive Bough Ol' Proc Telephone Call The Land Reincarnation Degrees of Water The Clincher What Kind of an Outfit You Got? Our Communion Rep Pup, Bonine, and Owl Zack Tilman Old Bluffer The Old Men in the Lobby Grandmother's French Hollyhocks Outriders at the End of the Trail The Torch is Passed Snuffy and Sodie and the Cowboy Code A Salute to the Cowboy Artists Give Us a Song, Ian Tyson Vegetable Cultivation The Yellowstone Howdy, Mr. Hunter Malcolm and the Stranglers Charles Finley Parkins Applied Genesis National Park Custer Country Ten Thousand Places Little Things Put That Back . . . Hoedown Call Anytime The Livestock Leader Rachel Definitions of Poor Pax Vobiscum Shopping The Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive Dock Groom Hired Hand Weeds Box Elders Ain't No Cowboy Heaven The Lingo of Our Callin' A Cost-Return Analysis Handy Harry Me and the Hippie on the Greyhound Bus Bareback Rider Holiday Season My Requiem The Compleat Cowboy Different Drummers Riders' Block Signs Gooseberries Jerry Kinzel Clint On Rural Relocation The Debut E. M. (Red) Kluver Rodeo Sold to the Highest Bidder Things of Intrinsic Worth Touchy Questions Roundup's Over Urban Cowboy Cowboy Curmudgeon (C.C.)

Product Details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1st edition (January 28, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0879054638
  • ISBN-13: 978-0879054632
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #999,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Poet lariat. . ., February 11, 2004
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Wallace McRae is a cowboy's cowboy poet. A rancher from Forsyth, Montana, with a gift of language, humor, and heart that makes his work rise far above the mainstream of this particular brand of American literature. This book is a collection of over 50 of his most popular poems, including classics such as "Reincarnation" and "Give Us a Song, Ian Tyson."

Writing in western vernacular, with clever turns of phrase and imaginative turns of thought, he covers a range of subjects from cowboys and ranching to boot shopping and hollyhocks. There are poems on gooseberries, coyotes, and the change of seasons, and many are tongue in cheek, like a cross-cultural conversation with a hippie and cataloging the trials of raising a son who takes after yourself.

Yes, many of the poems are "curmudgeonly." He complains about hunters and tourists, Californians and city folk in general, the environmental and social havoc of strip mining and clear cutting, and people who want to off-load their unwanted pets and unruly kids in the country. But just as often there is heart-felt sentiment, in the loss of a good hired hand who moves on, the loss of a neighbor whose ranch gets foreclosed, the retirement of an old rodeo bareback rider.

McRae's poems belong on anyone's shelf of western literature. He's the genuine article.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy Poetry don't git no better'n this!!!!!!, April 16, 1998
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This is one that you'll not put aside until you git done with it. Laughter, tears, plain ol' country. If you ain't Country, You ain't. Now I see that all o' the rest of Wallie's books are outta print. Gotta say somethin' great!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy Curmudgeon, July 16, 2002
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Great poems with a humerous twist and a unique view of life on a working Montana ranch.
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