Red Steagall: New and Selected Poems

Acknowledgments

-80A ck n o w l ed g m en t s “The Memories in Grandmother’s Trunk,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. Fort Worth: Bunkhouse Press, 1993. “The Code of the West Hasn’t Changed,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. Copyright © 1992 Fred Fellows. “A Dusty Cotton Field,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built, Fort Worth: Bunkhouse Press, 2001. “Bedroll,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “McCorkle and the Wire,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. Copyright © 1992 Joe Beller. “Born to This Land,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall; Born to this Land, Poems by Red Steagall and Photographs by Skeeter Hagler. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. “The Real America,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built; Born to this Land. “Deacon and the Dun,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “The Last Buffalo,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “Climbin’ Out the Other Side,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “My Best Friend,” previously unpublished. “The Fence That Me and Shorty Built,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “Bright Comanche Moon,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. -81- “The Weather,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “Ride for the Brand,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. Copyright © 1992 Bill Owens. “The Song of the West,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “The Picture” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “The Maverick Way,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “The Shank of the Evenin’,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “All They’ve Changed is the Guard at Fort Sill,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “The Bell on Old Blue,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. Copyright © 1992 Joe Beller. “Boley,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “The Visalia,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built; Born to This Land. “For J.J.,” previously unpublished. “The Blue Roan and the Kid,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “When Joseph Was Chief,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “To an Old Friend,” “Hats Off to the Cowboy,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. “Sourdough, Beefsteak, and Beans,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. -82- “We’re Hangin’ Him Tonite,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “Paw-Paw,” The Fence That Me and Shorty Built. “The Wagon Tongue,” Ride for the Brand: The Poetry and Songs of Red Steagall. Copyright © 1992 Texas Red Songs. ...