Ride for the Brand : The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall

by Red Steagall; Joyce G. Roach; Elmer Kelton

• ISBN13: 9780875651125
• ISBN10: 0875651127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Dedication: From Me and Baxter
Acknowledgments
Preface
Foreword	p. 1
Ride for the Brand	p. 13
Born to This Land	p. 17
The Code of the West Hasn't Changed	p. 19
A Full Grown Man	p. 21
Dakota	p. 26
The Maverick Way	p. 29
The Wagon Tongue	p. 31
The Ritual of Spring	p. 34
Sourdough, Beefsteak and Beans	p. 41
Underneath a Wide West Texas Sky	p. 44
Horses and Wars	p. 47
Hats Off to the Cowboy	p. 52
Justin	p. 53
The Shank of the Evening	p. 56
Bedroll	p. 58
The Ballad of Dawson Le Gate	p. 65
Rosalee's Smile	p. 69
The Texas Silver Zephyr	p. 72
My Pardner	p. 76
The Memories in Grandmother's Trunk	p. 79
For Freckles Brown	p. 87
To Casey	p. 92
Smokey	p. 99
Bandito Gold	p. 102
Deacon and the Dun	p. 105
The Bell on Old Blue	p. 108
One More Lick	p. 111
Jacob's Well	p. 117
McCorkle and the Wire	p. 120
The Last Buffalo	p. 127
When Joseph Was Chief	p. 129
All They've Changed is the Guard at Fort Sill	p. 131
Bright Comanche Moon	p. 133
The Picture	p. 139
The Weather	p. 141
To an Old Friend	p. 143
He Preferred Buckin' Horses to Books	p. 146
One Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse	p. 148
When the Cimarron Was Red and on the Rise	p. 151
Nothing But a Cowboy	p. 154
Fort Phantom Hill	p. 156
Afterword	p. 159
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