Four Aces and a Queen

AUTHORS: Dennis Russell, Terry Nash, Valerie Beard, Floyd Beard, Dale Page

What's Cowboy Poetry?

The American cowboy sprang up from rag-tag brood of Civil War survivors and the orphans of those who never came home. In that short time from 1865 until 1890, those boys grew to men atop a horse while they pushed wild cattle to the railroads in Kansas.

A mixed bunch of black, white, and brown Texans passed on their experiences, stories, and half-truths in rhyme and meter. Rhymes can make the wo...