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Poetry: Fairbairn - Furlong
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Titles: Fairbairn - Furlong

* Indicates from the collection of Alan V. Miller

* Fairbairn, John L. Rhymes of a prairie Scot / John L. Fairbairn. Calgary, AB: McAra Printing, 1980, c1977. Many poems from the 1930-40s. 99 p.

* Falstaff, Jake. The bulls of spring: selected poems of Jake Falstaff. Prefatory note by William Lyon Phelps. New York: Putnam's. 1937. 93 p.

See: "Kansas" p. 45.

   Famous cowboy and mountain ballads. New York: Padell Book Co., 1944. 96 p.

Includes: "Give me the West," / Griff Crawford; "Daisy Bell"; "The Canyon," / George L. McDermott; "Ballade of Boot-Hill," / W.A. Ward; "My Madonna."

* "Far out in the west." Harper's Weekly. September 11, 1880, p.582.
Casper, Wyoming: Gateway to the Last Frontier, stamp 1930s

"Casper, Wyoming: Gateway to the Last Frontier."

Casper, WY: Better Casper Association, [193-].

* Farah, Cynthia. Literature and landscape: writers of the Southwest / Cynthia Farah. El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1988. 137 p.

   Faris, John Thomson (1871- ). On the trail of the pioneers: romance, tragedy and triumph of the path of empire / John Thomson Faris. New York: George H. Doran, 1920. 319 p.

Some poetry at the beginning of each chapter: "To the West" / Charles Mackay, p.273; Thomas Buchanan Reid, p.95.

Greetings from Tucumcari, N.M. postcard, 1939.

"Greetings from Tucumcari, N.M."

Chicago: Curteich; Albuquerque; Southwest Post Card Co., 1939. Distributed by Southwest Post Card Co., Albuquerque. "J.R. Willis." (C.T. Art-Colortone). 9A-H1274 / G-23

* Farr, Clara Root. Oklahoma emblems / Clara Root Farr. Illustrated by the author. Guthrie, OK: Co-operative Publishing, 1932. 66 p.

Includes song: "Oklahoma (a toast)" by Harriet Parker Camden, arranged by J.W. Scroggs.

   Farwell, Arthur. Folk songs of the West and South : Negro, cowboy and Spanish-Califorian / Arthur Farwell. Newton Centre, ME: Wa-Wan Press, 1905.

See: "The lone prairie"

   Farwell, Arthur. From mesa and plain / Arthur Farwell. Newton Centre, ME: Wa-Wan Press, 1905.

   Farwell, Arthur. It was a long and tiresome go / Arthur Farwell. Newton Centre, ME: Wa-Wan Press, 1908.

Boulder Dam, stamp 1940s.

"Boulder Dam, [Nevada]."

Boulder City, NV: Boulder Dam Service Bureau, [194-].

  Farwell, Arthur. Three desert songs / Arthur Farwell. East Lansing, MI: A. Farwell, 1927.

  Farwell, Arthur. Upon the trail / Arthur Farwell. East Lansing, MI: A. Farwell, c1908.

  Favorite songs of the nineties. Edited by Robert A. Fremont. New York: Dover Publications, 1973.

  Fee, Chester Anders. Rimes o' round-up / Chester Anders Fee. Portland, OR: Metropolitan, 1935. 78 p.
On the Oregon Trail stamp,  1938

"Let's Get Associated: On the Oregon Trail."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.118

* Felter, William. New Mexico and other verse. Hobbs, NM: New Mexico Verse, 195- [96] p.

   Felton, Harold W. [1902-]. Cowboy jamboree: western songs & lore /  Harold W.  Felton. Music arranged by Edward S. Breck, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. 707 p.

   Fenin, George N.; Everson, William K. The western from silents to cinerama / George N. Fenin, William K. Everson. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.

   Fenin, George N.; Everson, William K. The western: from silents to the seventies / George N. Fenin, William K. Everson. London: Penguin, 1977.

   Fenster, Mark. "Preparing the audience." American Music. 7(3): 267, 1989.

Santa Rosa, NM: Club Cafe and Sahuaro Trading Post,  stamp 1940s.

"Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Club Cafe and Sahuaro Trading Post, on U.S. Highway 66."

Santa Rosa, NM: Club Cafe and Sahuaro Trading Post, [194-].

   Fergusson, Erna (1881- ). Dancing Gods / Erna Fergusson. New York: Knopf, 1931.

* Fergusson, Erna. Our Southwest / Erna Fergusson. New York: Knopf, 1940. 376 p.

See: ch. 20 "The interpreters" p.357-376. Poets mentioned include Alice Corbin Henderson, Witter Bynner, William H. Simpson, Lexie Dean Robertson, Peggy Pond Church and Fray Angelico Chavez.

   Fergusson, Harvey. Followers of the Sun / Harvey Fergusson. New York: Knopf, 1936.

* Ferril, Thomas Hornsby (1896-1988). Anvil of roses. Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 1983. 40 p. 2 nd printing.

   Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. High passage / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1926. 50 p.

   Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. High passage / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1926. 50 p. [New York, AMS Press, 1971] Original ed. issued as v. 22 of Yale series of younger poets.

* Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. New and selected poems / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. 169 p.

See: especially Part 3: American testament.

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona 194-

"Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: Hotels, Lodges, Camps."

Grand Canyon, AR: Fred Harvey, [194-].

* Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. Thomas Hornsby Ferril and the American West / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. Edited by Robert C. Baron, Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel. Golden, CO.: Fulcrum Pub., and the Center of the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996. 166 p. Signed by all three editors and Ferril; no. 175 of 250 copies.

See: "Selected poems," p.2-29, 36-67, 78-133.

* Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. Trial by time / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944. 105 p. Inscribed.

* Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. Westering / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1934. 2nd printing, 1935. 90 p.

* Ferril, Thomas Hornsby. Words for Denver and other poems / Thomas Hornsby Ferril. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1966. 86 p. Dj Inscribed to David and Margot Tepperman.

Hotel La Fonda de Taos, New Mexico, stamp 1940s.

"Hotel La Fonda de Taos, New Mexico, Art Center of the Southwest."

Taos, NM: Hotel La Fonda de Taos, [194-].

* Ferrell, Will. Poems in oil / Will Ferrell. [Oklahoma]: Hugh Hodges Drilling Company, [1935]. 63 p. Presented as a Christmas gift to clients ; signed by Skull Brown, Dec. 25, 1935.

   Ficke, Arthur Davison (1883-1945). Mountain against mountain / Arthur Davison Ficke. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929.

   Field, Eugene. Hoosier lyrics / Eugene Field. Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue, 1905. 160 p.

See: "The mighty West" p.114-115.

   Field, Eugene. A little book of Tribune verse: a number of hitherto uncollected poems, grave and gay / Eugene Field.Collected and edited by Joseph G. Brown. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. 256 p.

"These poems appeared at intervals from August, 1881, to August, 1883, in the columns of The Denver Tribune, of which paper Field was then associate editor." p.5. See: "Western verse," p.167-218

Field was in Denver when Oscar Wilde visited in 1882. He played a practical joke on Wilde, by impersonating him, much to the benefit of Wilde. See also Lewis O. Saum

See cowboy on bucking horse at Ted Hustead's Wall Drug, stamp 1930s

"See cowboy on bucking horse at Ted Hustead's Wall Drug."

Wall, SD: Wall Drug Store, [193-].

   Field, Eugene. A little book of Western verse / Eugene Field. Chicago, IL: [Field], 1889. No cowboy poems.

   Field, Eugene. A little book of Western verse / Eugene Field. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 202 p.

   Field, Eugene. The poems of Eugene Field - complete edition / Eugene Field. Toronto, ON: McClellan and Goodchild, 1910.

See: "Western and other verse" p.1-213.

   Field, Eugene. The poems of Eugene Field - complete edition / Eugene Field. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.

See: "Western and other verse" p.1-213.

* Field, Matt. Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail. Collected by Clyde and Mae Reed Porter; edited and with an introduction and notes by John E. Sunder. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 322 p. See poems "The prairies," "The butchering," "The blind bull," e.g. , p.5-50.  

  Field. Sara Band. Darkling plain / Sara Band Field. New York: Random House; printed in San Francisco by Grabhorn Press, 1936. 92 p.

* Fiesta: an anthology of southwestern poets, 1953. Edited by Marion Sturges Burton. Albuquerque, NM: National League of American Penwomen, Albuquerque Branch, 1952. 32 p. Signed by Farona Konopak.

Includes: S.O. Barker, A. Benton, M.S Burton, W. Bynner, H. Long, etc.

* Fiesta: an anthology of southwestern poets, 1954-1955. Edited by Marion Sturges Burton. Albuquerque, NM: Marion Sturges Burton, 1954. 32 p. Signed by Daoma Winston, p.10.

Includes: S. Omar Barker, A. Benton, M.S Burton, W. Bynner, Fray Angelico Chavez, etc.

Buffalo Bill Country, Cody, Wyoming, stamp 1930s.

"Buffalo Bill Country, Cody, Wyoming."

Cody, WY: np, [193-].

   Fife, Austin E. "A ballad of the Mountain Meadows massacre." Western Folklore. 12(4): np, 1953.

   Fife, Austin E. "California Joe." Western Folklore. 22: 49-51, 1973.

   Fife, Austin E. "Folk songs of Mormon inspiration." Western Folklore. 6(1): 42-52, January 1947.

* Fife, Austin E. "The strawberry roan and his progeny." JEMF Quarterly. 8: 149-165, 1972.
Emigrants at Battle Mountain, Nevada stamp, 1938

"Let's Get Associated: Emigrants at Battle Mountain, Nevada."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.121

   Fife, Austin E.; Fife, Alta S. Heaven on horseback: revivalist songs and verse in the cowboy idiom / Austin E. Fife, Alta S. Fife. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1970. 114 p. 49 songs.

   Fife, Austin E; Fife, Alta S. "Pug-nosed Lil and the girl with the blue velvet band." American West. 7(2): 32-37, March 1970.

   Fife, Austin E.; Fife, Alta S. Saints of sage and saddle / Austin E. Fife, Alta S. Fife. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1956.

   Fife, Austin E; Fife, Alta S. "Spurs and saddlebags." American West. September 1970, p.44-47.

   Fifty western writers. Edited by Fred Erisman. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1982. 562 p.

   Finger, Charles J. [1869-1941]. Adventure under sapphire skies / Charles J. Finger. New York: Morrow, 1931.

Westward Ho Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona. stamp 1930s.

"Westward Ho Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona."

Phoenix, AZ: Westward Ho Hotel, [193-].

* Finger, Charles J. Frontier ballads: heard and gathered by Charles J. Finger / Charles J. Finger. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. 181 p. Woodcuts by Paul Honore

   Finger, Charles J. Ozark fantasia / Charles J. Finger. Fayetteville, AR: Gayeta Press, 1927.

   Finger, Charles J. Sailor chanties and cowboy songs / Charles J. Finger. Girard, KS: E. Haldeman-Julius, 1923. 64 p.

   Finger, Charles J. Sailor chanties and cowboy songs / Charles J. Finger. Norwood, PA : Norwood Editions, 1974, c1923. 64 p.

* The fireside book of favorite American songs. Selected and edited by Margaret Bradford Boni. Arranged for piano by Norman Lloyd. Illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

See: "Oh, Susanna," "Arkansas traveller," "Red River valley," "Whoppe ti-yi-yo," "Home on the range."

Northern Hotel, Billings, Montana, stamp 1940s.

"Northern Hotel, Billings, Montana."

Billings, MT: Northern Hotel, [194-].

   Fitzgerald, Mary S. The way of beauty / Mary S. Fitzgerald. Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, 1932.

   Flanagan, John T. "John G. Neidardt, chronicler of the West." Arizona Quarterly. 21: 7-20, Spring 1965.

* Flanagan, Mike. Out West / Mike Flanagan. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. 207 p.

* Fletcher, Bob. Corral dust / Bob Fletcher. Drawings by Shorty Shope. Helena, MT: State Publishing Co., 1934. 87 p. Signed

* Fletcher, Bob. Corral dust / Bob Fletcher. Drawings by Shorty Shope. Helena, MT: State Publishing Co., 1936, c1934. 87 p.

   Fletcher, Bob. Corral dust / Bob Fletcher. Drawings by Shorty Shope. Helena: McKee Printing, 1936. 87 p.

   Fletcher, Bob "Poet Lariat." Prickley pear poems. Helena, MT: Independent Publishing Co., 1920.

   Fletcher, Curley W. Ballads of the badlands / Curley W. Fletcher. Los Angeles, CA: Frontier Publishing Co., 1932.

Wyoming Golden Anniversary, 1890-1940. stamp 1940.

"Wyoming Golden Anniversary, 1890-1940."
"Buffalo Bill's home in the Rockies."

Cody, WY: The Irma Hotel, [193-].

   Fletcher, Curley. "The outlaw broncho." Arizona Record. December 16, 1915. "The strawberry roan".

* Fletcher, Curley. Requiem: Charles Marion Russell. Denver, CO: H.E. Britzman, 1952. [2] p. One of two hundred copies lithographed for the Charles M. Russell meeting of the Denver Westerners, Denver Press Club, Denver, Colorado, October 22, 1952.

   Fletcher, Curley W. Rhymes of the round-up / Curley W. Fletcher. San Francisco, CA: C. W. Fletcher, 1917.

* Fletcher, Curley W. Songs of the sage / Curley W. Fletcher. Los Angeles, CA: Frontier Publishing Co., 1931. 74 p.

* Fletcher, Curley W. Songs of the sage / Curley W. Fletcher. Sketches by Guy M. Welch. Los Angeles, CA: Frontier Publishing, 1931. 74 p. 2nd variant printing. Cover: cowboy with silver moon at head.
Fremont Peak, California stamp, 1938

"Let's Get Associated: Fremont Peak, California."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.128

   Fletcher, Curley W. Songs of the sage / Curley W. Fletcher. Reprinted with preface by Hal Cannon. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs M. Smith, 1986, c1931.

* Fletcher, John Gould. XXIV elegies / John Gould Fletcher. Santa Fe, NM; Writers' Editions; Rydal Press, 1935. 87 p. Inscribed. No. 181 of 400.

   Fletcher, John Gould. "Alice Corbin and Imagism." New Mexico Quarterly Review. 19: 34-79?, Spring 1949.

   Fletcher, John Gould. Breakers and granite / John Gould Fletcher. New York: Macmillan, 1921.

   Fletcher, John Gould. Life is my song / John Gould Fletcher. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.

   Fletcher, John Gould. Burning mountain. New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1946. 96 p.

* Fletcher, John Gould. Selected poems / John Gould Fletcher. New York; Toronto, ON: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. 237 p.

See: "Arizona poems; The Grand Canyon of the Colorado."

   Fletcher, John Gould. "Songs of the Rio Grande." New Mexico Quarterly. nd

Grass is life.  U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, State Forest Service. stamp 1940s.

"Grass is life, protect it: prevent range fires."

[Washington, DC]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, State Forest Service, [194-].

* Foley, James W. Tales of the trail: a book of western sketches in verse / James W. Foley. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1914, c1905. 170 p. Signed

   Folklore and society: essays in honor of Benjamin A. Botkin. Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1966.

   Folklore of the great west. Edited by John Greenway. Palo Alto, CA: American West Pub., 1969.

See: comments on D. J. O'Malley

   Folk-say, a regional miscellany. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1929-1932. (No.1, 1929, no.2, 1930, no.3, 1931, no.4, 1932)

See: Simpson, William H. "Pasó por aquí."

Queen Victoria Rock, Bryce National Park stamp, 1938

"Let's Get Associated: Queen Victoria Rock, Bryce National Park."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.178

   Folk-songs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon collection, 1922-1932 / Edited by Neil V. Rosenberg and Debora Kodish. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1978. Stereo LP with booklet (AFS L68).

* Folk-songs of the South: collected under the auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society. Edited by John Harrington Cox. New York: Dover, 1967, c1925. 545 p.

See: "The cowboy" p.242-246, "The dying cowboy", "The dying ranger" p.263, "The wild cowboy".

   Folksinger's wordbook. Compiled and edited by Irwin and Fred Silber. New York: Oak Publications, 1973. 430 p.

See: "Git along, little doggies" p.105-115. Songs: "Blood on the saddle", "Buffalo skinners", "Bury me not on the lone prairie", "The cowboys dream", "Get along, little dogies", "Goodbye old paint", "I ride an old paint", "The old Chisholm trail", "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", "Red River Valley", "The strawberry roan" "The streets of Laredo", "The tenderfoot", "Trail to Mexico", "Tyin' a knot in the devil's tail", "Utah Carroll", "The railroad corral", "Wake up Jacob, cowboy's gettin' up holler", "Doney gal", "The Zebra dun".

   Ford, Ira W. Traditional music of America / Ira W. Ford. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940. See p.367-369.

   Foresman, Robert. Our music in story and song: book of songs / Robert Foresman. New York: American Book Co., 1935. 351 p. 338 songs

Yosemite National Park. stamp 1940s.

"Yosemite National Park [California]."

[Yosemite, CA]: Yosemite National Park, [194-].

* Forster, Richard. Musings of a sheepherder / Richard Forster. Casper, WY: Press of the Commercial Printing Co., 1923. 351 p. Inscribed to Mary Anne Eschwig.

* Foss, Sam W. "The coming American." Ideals (Milwaukee). 10(5): [57], October 1953.

   Fowke, Edith. "American cowboy and western pioneer songs in Canada." Western Folklore. 21(4): 247-256, 1962.

   Fowke, Edith. "'The Red River valley' re-examined." Western Folklore. 23: 164-171, 1964.

   Fox, Oscar J. (1879- ). Three cowboy desperado songs / Oscar J. Fox. [New York]: Carl Fischer, nd.
John Day Fossil Beds stamp, 1938

"Let's Get Associated: John Day Fossil Beds."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.170

   "The Frankie and Johnnie episode of 1899." Missouri Historical Review. 36: 75-77, October 1941.

   Frey, Hugo (1874-1952). American cowboy songs / Hugo Frey. New York: Knopf, 1936.

   Frey, Hugo. American cowboy songs / Hugo Frey. New York: Robbins Music Corp., 1936. 96 p.

Friendship. Compiled by Paul Elder. San Francisco, CA: Elder and Shepard, 1901. 16 p.

Includes poems by Matthew Arnold, and Emerson. See: "Friendship is love for another because of what that other is in himself, or for that other's sake, and not because of what that other is to the loving one ... / Trumbull, p.2

Lake Mead Boulder Dam stamp, 1938

"Let's Get Associated: Lake Mead Boulder Dam."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.185

* "From Navajo Land: Secure; Patterns; Manana; Hills of copper; An old ranch house; Close to the warm earth; Spirit of Navajo land; Lost; Howls-in-the-Dawn." El Palacio (Santa Fe, NM). 31(13): 201-202, September 30, 1931.

   Frontier ballads: heard and gathered by Charles J. Finger (songs from lawless lands). Compiled by Charles J. Finger. Woodcuts bu Paul Honoré. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. 181 p.

   The frontier experience. Edited by Jon Tuska. Jefferson, NC: McFarlane, 1984. 434 p.

   Frontier Times. 11(4): 189-192, January 1934.

   Frothingham, Robert. "Old songs that men have sung." Adventure Magazine. Edited by Roland Palmer Gray. July 1923-27? [1922-23?].

* Frothingham, Robert. Songs of men / Robert Frothingham. Cambridge, MA: Houghton, 1918. 173p.

   Fuld, James J. America popular music, 1875-1950 / James J. Fuld. Philadelphia, PA: [Music Library Association], 1955.
Covered wagon stamp, 1938

"Let's Get Associated: Covered wagon."

Associated stamps of the West. [Tulsa, OK]: Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Associated Division, 1938. No.2

   Fuld, James J. The book of world-famous music: classical, popular and folk / James J. Fuld. New York: Crown Publications, 1971.

3 songs: "Git along, little dogie," "Home on the range," "Oh, bury not on the lone prairie."

* Furia, Philip. The poets of Tin Pan Alley: a history of America's great lyricists / Philip Furia. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 322 p.

See ch.7 "The Tinpantithesis of poetry: Cole Porter." Much on Porter's homosexuality and androgynous lyrics, "a genderless 'I' cooing to an equally indeterminant 'you'." p.154.

Porter topped the Hit Parade "when Roy Rogers sang 'Don't fence me in' in the film Hollywood Canteen, a song so successful it spawned its own film in 1945." p.177.

* Furlong, Charles Wellington. Let 'er buck: a story of the passing of the old West / Charles Wellington Furlong Wellington. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Ill. 242 p.

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