Introduction

This is a collection of poems from the sometimes fertile mind and occasional vivid imagination of Keith Rounds spawned by experience in and yearning for the cowboy culture. They include lots of stuff about cowboys, what they did, who they are and how they fit.

Some are written in the pre-automobile mode, others are about modern cowboys. There are also sections about Rounds' friends and relatives, and about his work at the Wyoming State House of Representatives. These too are in the cowboy-poetry style, that is, with rhyme and meter; without which, it ain't Cowboy Poetry.