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What Cowboy Poems Choose to Remember

Work, humor, care, and the stories a community tells about itself.

Cowboy poems often remember hard work, skill, loyalty, and independence. They can also question those ideals. A useful poem gives us a person in a particular situation, rather than a list of virtues.

In Saddle Wisdom, the speaker fixes a gate and lets the horse drink first. The action does more than a speech about patience could.

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