A Rambling Cowboy's Life in Poem
Daniel Y. Chancellor

Copyright 2000
International Standard Book Number: 1-929612-08-7
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-101800

...This is part of a cowboy's life.
As we go our lonely way , we face the strife.
Feels good to be able to sing a song
And to know this is right where I belong.

Through deep valleys, over high mountains we'll wander,
Find us a job punching cows over yonder.
Will make camp under a beautiful clear blue sky,
Gaze at the lovely stars in heaven so high.

These early stanzas in A Rambling Cowboy's Life in Poem set the stage for Daniel Y. Chancellor's saga about the nomadic life of the American cowboy. Breaking horses, herding cattle, coping with stampedes, and dealing with the social and economic vagaries of the working cowboy's life are highlighted and illuminated in this epic poem. Life on the range eventually comes full circle as Chancellor's hero comes to see where he really belongs...

This is beautiful country we are passing through;
Won't stop until Texas nothing else will do.
I did not realize I'd been away so long.
Now, I know that's where I belong.