Cowboy Poetry from a Short-horn Tenderfoot
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About the Book
Traditional cowboy lingo, like the old-time maritime vernacular of the sea, and even the jargon of baseball, is so colorfully descriptive that modern, media-molded English sounds bland and trite by comparison. Often a short, cowboy-styled phrase can convey more meaning and sentiment than several paragraphs of modern writ. That’s the heart, soul, and backbone of cowboy poetry. A writer doesn’t have to knock his brains out trying to hatch up enough imagery to offset the blandness of modern English, nor does a reader have to scratch his head bald trying to understand the poems.
About the Author
Richard Bird Baker of Great Falls, Montana, has long been an historical lecture, speaking about the Lewis and Clark Exploration and the life of Charles M. Russell. He has previously published five books in prose, three of which have won national literary awards. He has long been a collector and performer of traditional western ballads. This is his first rodeo with cowboy poetry.