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    Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems
    Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems
    Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems
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    Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems

    By Badger Clark

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems - Badger Clark

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sun and Saddle Leather, by Badger Clark

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Sun and Saddle Leather

      Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems

      Author: Badger Clark

      Release Date: July 17, 2011 [EBook #36770]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUN AND SADDLE LEATHER ***

      Produced by Roberta Staehlin, David Garcia and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      SUN AND SADDLE LEATHER

      "When the last free trail is a prim, fenced lane

      And our graves grow weeds through forgetful Mays,

      Richer and statelier then you'll reign,

      Mother of men whom the world will praise.

      And your sons will love you and sigh for you,

      Labor and battle and die for you,

      But never the fondest will understand

      The way we have loved you, young, young land."

      SUN AND SADDLE LEATHER

      BY BADGER CLARK

      Illustrations from Photographs by

      L. A. HUFFMAN

      THIRD EDITION

      BOSTON

      RICHARD G. BADGER

      THE GORHAM PRESS

      Copyright, 1915, 1917 and 1919 by Badger Clark

      All Rights Reserved

      MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

      TO MY FATHER,

      who, in his long life, has seldom been

      conscious of a man's rough exterior, or

      unconscious of his obscurest virtue.

      PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

      Cowboys are the sternest critics of those who would represent the West. No hypocrisy, no bluff, no pose can evade them.

      Yet cowboys have made Badger Clark's songs their own. So readily have they circulated that often the man who sings the song could not tell you where it started. Many of the poems have become folk songs of the West, we may say of America, for they speak of freedom and the open.

      Generous has been the praise given Sun and Saddle Leather, but perhaps no criticism has summed up the work so satisfactorily as the comment of the old cow man who said, "You can break me if there's a dead poem in the book, I read the hull of it. Who in H—— is this kid Clark, anyway? I don't know how he knowed, but he knows."

      That is what proves Badger Clark the real poet. He knows. Beyond his wonderful presentation of the West is the quality of universal appeal that makes his work real art. He has tied the West to the universe.

      The old cow man is not the only one who has wondered who Badger Clark was. Charles Wharton Stork speaking of Sun and Saddle Leather, said, It has splendid flavor and fine artistic handling as well. I should like to know more of the author, whether he was a cow puncher or merely got inside his psychology by imagination.

      Badger Clark was brought up in the West. As a boy he lived in Deadwood, South Dakota. The town at that time was trying to live down the reputation for exuberant indecorum which she had acquired during the gold rush; but her five churches operating two hours a week could make little headway against the competition of two dance halls and

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