Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0874215803 ISBN 13: 9780874215809

Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado, 2004

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Set in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the stories are a loosely tied string of old timer's yarns with a continuing cast of engaging characters, whom Kiskaddon avoids reducing to cowboy stereotypes. They include, as Siems describes them, "Kiskaddon himself as the character Shorty. As a common waddy with a small man's feistiness and a young man's mischief, Shorty encounters the wicked world with a succession of companions: Bill, high-headed and a bit of an outlaw; Rildy Briggs, untamable and unstoppable young cowgirl; and Ike, an old-fashioned dandy and 'a very fortunate person.' More or less in the background is the Boss-actually a series of Bosses-generally affectionately respected as long as he remains democratic in his dealings with the waddies. Buffoonery is provided by a succession of pompous characters, from townspeople who look down their noses on wild, unwashed waddies to professors from the East who have read books on how ranches should be run."

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Shorty's Yarns

Western Stories and Poems of BRUCE KISKADDON

Utah State University Press

Copyright © 2004 Utah State University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-87421-580-9

Contents

List of Illustrations and Poems.........................................viiIntroduction ~ An Uncommon Waddy........................................ixAcknowledgments.........................................................xxiA Note on the Text......................................................xxiiCHAPTER 1 ~ AUTOBIOGRAPHY...............................................3CHAPTER 2 ~ STARTIN' OUT................................................9Rough Hands.............................................................9Hair Cuttin'............................................................10Wild Dogs...............................................................11Wolves..................................................................11Reptiles................................................................12Old Time Country School Days............................................13The Traveling School Master.............................................14It Was a Draw!..........................................................15CHAPTER 3 ~ INTRODUCING BILL............................................19Concernin' Bill.........................................................19Bill's Injun Trouble....................................................20Bill Meets a Funeral....................................................21Bill Doctors the Chimleys...............................................23City Folks Go Bear Huntin'..............................................25Bill Plays Ghost........................................................26CHAPTER 4 ~ BILL AND RILDY BRIGGS.......................................31Bill's Joke Goes Wrong..................................................31Bill Has Luck...........................................................32Bill Goes to Turkey Creek Dance.........................................34Bill Takes the Mules to Preachin'.......................................36The Preacher Loses His Team.............................................37Bill Leaves for the High Country........................................39Shorty Is Bill's Secretary..............................................40CHAPTER 5 ~ BILL SAYS GOODBYE...........................................45Bill Turns Pugilist.....................................................45Bill Does a Fan Dance...................................................47Bill Buys Some Medicine.................................................49Bill Visits a Married Friend............................................51The Rock Creek Dance....................................................54Bill and the Medicine Man Get Quarantined...............................56Bill Adjusts Matrimonial Affairs........................................57Bill Has Trouble........................................................59Bill Says Goodbye.......................................................61CHAPTER 6 ~ SHORTY AND THE PROFESSORS...................................67Introducing the Professor...............................................67Rildy Brings the Portfolio..............................................69The Second Perfessor Arrives............................................71Zeb Loses a Trick.......................................................73Rildy and Zeb Have a Date...............................................75Shorty Rescues the Second Perfessor.....................................77The Perfessor Buys a Horse ... and a Dog................................79Eph and the Perfessor Says Good Bye.....................................81Shorty Turns Diplomat...................................................83Shorty's Boss Buys a Mule Team..........................................85CHAPTER 7 ~ SHORTY GOES HOME............................................91Shorty Goes Home for Armistice Day......................................91Shorty Finishes His Visit...............................................94CHAPTER 8 ~ INTRODUCING IKE.............................................99Shorty Meets Some Missourians...........................................99Shorty Meets a Fool for Luck............................................100Shorty Hears Ike Analyse Words..........................................102The Boss Buys a Mare....................................................104He Was After a Road Runner..............................................106Shorty and Ike Meet the Boss's Nephews..................................108CHAPTER 9 ~ RUSTLERS AND ROMANCE........................................113Shorty Corrects a Mistake...............................................113The Fortune Teller Sends Ike Fishing....................................115Ike Has Trouble With His Hat............................................118Ike Meets a Romance.....................................................120Cap'n Beasley Goes in for Cattle........................................122Stockings and Watches...................................................125CHAPTER 10 ~ HELL AMONG THE YEARLIN'S...................................131Ricky Comes and Goes....................................................131Cap Takes to Mules......................................................134Squint Comes and Goes...................................................136Cap and Morton Each Tell One............................................140Stickin' to One Idee....................................................142Hell Among the Yearlin's................................................144Ike Gets a New Job......................................................148CHAPTER 11 ~ LAST STORIES...............................................153Shorty's Boss Buys Purebred Bulls.......................................153Bruce Kiskaddon Visits Old Friends in Arizona...........................155Afterword for the City Dweller ~ The Old Night Hawk.....................158Notes...................................................................163

Chapter One

Autobiography

Answering the requests of many readers of Western Livestock Journal, Bruce Kiskaddon, famous cowboy poet, writes his autobiography. His book "Western Poems" has had tremendous sale. There is hardly a cattlemen's meeting but what someone adds to the occasion by reciting a Bruce Kiskaddon poem. Probably his "Little Blue Roan" is the most popular. Now we'll let Bruce tell his own story. -The Editor, WLJ, May 31, 1938.

My first work with cattle was down in southwest Missouri. I was twelve years old. Four of us, all about the same age, were day herding a bunch of cows on what unfenced country there was around that place. We had quite a lot of room and at night we put them in an eighty acre pasture. We four kids worked at it all summer. We rode little Indian horses and went home at night. Not much cow punching, that's a fact, but it was big business to us. The talk of opening the Indian territory for settlement had started, and already the open country was beginning to be occupied by boomers' camps. People were coming from everywhere to be ready for the opening. They were a mixed up lot. Some honest folks and a few mighty tough hangers-on. Two things I always remember. One was a poker game. They had tied up the sides of a tent and got to playing on a tarp on a bed. The place was crowded and many men from other camps had set in. There was more money stacked there than us kids had ever seen. The man that owned the bed and tent had to go and sleep at a...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0874215803
• ISBN 13: 9780874215809
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 171
• Herausgeber: Siems Bill
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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