"There's a ranch in Texas hiring a crew to drive three thousand miles up the Chisholm Trail to Abilene. ... This collection of twenty-two poems captures the hard life and good times of cowboys on a cattle drive"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.

Nineteen poems celebrate cowboy life.

"In memoir, poetry, and prose, describes the adventures of Frank Maynard, an open range cowboy whose ten-year career coincided with the peak of the Great Plains trail-drive era. Folklore scholars credit Maynard with adapting Irish ballad 'The Unfortunate Rake' from its American version to the well known 'The Cowboy's Lament'"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of humorous poems about cowboys and the Old West, three of which are set to the tune of popular songs.