Frontier Ballads
CONTENTS
NOW, this is the simple, living faith of a humble heart and mind,
Drunk up from the storm-brewed Western streams, breathed in with the prairie wind.
My paints are crude and my pictures rude, but if some worth they show
Which those may see who have thoughts as free, the rest may let them go.
I hold that the things which make earth good may work most harm in use
If the wit of men heed not the line 'twixt temperance and abuse,
For speech or mood, or drink or food may be a curse at will,
Though, rightly weighed, they only aid the cup of life to fill.
Joseph Mills Hanson
FRONTIER BALLADS
With Pictures in Color and Other Drawings by Maynard Dixon
MY CREED
I. SOLDIER SONGS
DAKOTA MILITIA
(1862)
THE GIRL OF THE YANKTON STOCKADE
THE BALLAD OF SERGEANT ROSS
THE SPRINGFIELD CALIBRE FIFTY
A GARRISON CHRISTMAS
TROOP HORSES
A KHAKI KICK
SERGEANT NOONAN EXPLAINS
LARAMIE TRAIL
II. PRAIRIE SONGS
THE CALL OF THE WIND
THE FUR TRADERS
COWBOY SONG
CHRISTMAS EVE AT KIMBALL
A LAMENT
JESUS GARCIA
A CHRISTMAS LETTER
THE COYOTEVILLE PEACE MEETING
THE SONG OF THE WINCHESTER
PRAIRIE FIRE
III. RIVER SONGS
THE MISSOURI
THE OLD CARRY
JAKE DALE
|WHAT, stranger, you never heerd tell o' Jake,
THE ENGINEER OF THE "GOLDEN HIND"
THE "PAULINE"
AFTERGLOW
(On the Missouri)
