Bicentennial Story #97-Buckskin Joe
Title
Bicentennial Story #97-Buckskin Joe
Description
A warning by Buckskin Joe.
Date
9/12/1975
Rights
This recording cannot be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center. This recording may be freely used for education uses, so long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this recording file is permitted without written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center.
Format
mp3
Medium
audio reel, analog, 1/4 inch polyester tape
Language
English
Identifier
BS-097
Rights Holder
Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center
Transcription
In frontier days, a cocky tenderfoot made a nuisance of himself, and Old Buckskin Joe gave him this warning:
Listen, gentle stranger, I'll read my pedigree:
I'm known on handling tenderfeet and worser men than thee;
The lions on the mountains, I've drove them to their lairs;
The wild—cats are my playmates and I've wrestled grizzly bears;
The centipedes have tried and failed to mar my tough old hide,
rattlesnakes have bit me, and crawled away and died.
I'm as wild as the wild horse that roams the boundless plains,
The moss grows on my teeth and wild blood flows through my veins.
I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas,
And never been curried below the knees.
Now, little stranger, if you'll give me your address,—
How would you like to go, by fast mail or express?
This is Bicentennial Story No 97, prepared for the Stark County Historical Society.
Herman Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, Chapter XXII
Listen, gentle stranger, I'll read my pedigree:
I'm known on handling tenderfeet and worser men than thee;
The lions on the mountains, I've drove them to their lairs;
The wild—cats are my playmates and I've wrestled grizzly bears;
The centipedes have tried and failed to mar my tough old hide,
rattlesnakes have bit me, and crawled away and died.
I'm as wild as the wild horse that roams the boundless plains,
The moss grows on my teeth and wild blood flows through my veins.
I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas,
And never been curried below the knees.
Now, little stranger, if you'll give me your address,—
How would you like to go, by fast mail or express?
This is Bicentennial Story No 97, prepared for the Stark County Historical Society.
Herman Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, Chapter XXII
Original Format
Sound recordings
Duration
1:38
Bit Rate/Frequency
128kbps
Decade
1970 1979
Physical Location
Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107
Collection
Citation
“Bicentennial Story #97-Buckskin Joe,” Southwestern North Dakota Digital Archive At the Dickinson Museum Center, accessed May 11, 2024, https://dmc.omeka.net/items/show/502.
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