cowboy poetry
Western pastoral rhymes
Cowboy poetry is verse celebrating the life, work, and landscape of the American West—cattle drives, open ranges, horses, and ranch culture.
The tradition draws on folk ballads and frontier storytelling, often performed aloud at gatherings.
The style tends toward rhyme, meter, and narrative: He recited cowboy poetry at the Elko festival.
- balladsNarrative verse set to music
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- frontier lifeExistence at settlement's edge
- rodeoCowboy skills competition
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
folk music · ranching · buckaroo · stanza · chuck wagon · dusty trail · oral history · tall tales · old timer · oral recitation · nature · American West · Western heritage · regionalism · cattle drives · open range · horse wrangler · pioneer spirit