This collection of poems was chosen from among 10,000 gathered from cowboy reciters, ranch poets and from a library of over 200 published works of cowboy verse. One third of the poems are classics that have proven their vitality by having lived in the hearts and minds of cowboys and ranchers for decades. The remaining two-thirds are new, created within the last few years.

Accounts of Arizona history and lore related in verse.

More than two hundred songs, some with music, whose lyrics depict life in the old West.

"She wasn't born to it, but by mid-life she was fully engulfed in the ways of the working cowboy lifestyle and culture. She was learning the traditions, living on the back trails of some of the roughest country in Arizona. She was learning to be a cowboy, to make a good hand. A feat that most of the old school cow-punchers say took a life-time of education. One that changes with time and the breed of cows and horses you're dealing with. Life changes,...