Songs of Men (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...I dropped, Till she grew as interested and as gentle as a woman, Just to have me praise and pet her; but one day the teaching stopped "Three rustlers from the Notch rode up, I knew there would be trouble, But I sat my pony easy and I rolled a cigarette, And we talked about the rodeo, when, like a bursting bubble, The leader opened up the fight. I felt my arm grow wet.... "It was three to one; but Yuma, like a rock, stood to the thunder, For she seemed to know my need.... Two empty saddles... when the one That tried at first to get me spurred up close and swung up under, And I saw the trail to heaven in the muzzle of his gun., "I flinched and played the coward ' Up ' I called, and at the calling Reared my pony; and she took bis shot I leveled quick and twice I answered. In the smoke I saw a twisted figure falling; I could feel my pony shiver.... Twenty years I've paid the price "For my lif Yes, Hell-and-Texas leave the hoofprints in some faces; We, the riders of the ranges, each of us have played his part.... Twenty yearsW he whispered slowly, "Twenty years in many places, But I've never worn the print of Yuma's hoofmarks from my heart "I'm the Walking Man forever But I dream of mighty ranges And the silent mountain-meadows in the glory of the stars; And I see the phantom ponies in the dawn and sunset changes, And I hear my Yuma nicker, just behind the golden bars' Sunny summer day it was when loping in to Laramie, I overtook the Walking Man, reined up and nodded "Howl" He walked beside me for a while. He hardly was aware of me, But I think I understand him, for I know his story now THE BRONCO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN OF DANCING A little coltbronco loaned tome farm To be broken in time without fury or harm, Yet black c...