Endnotes

  1. Pronounced by the natives “muggy-yones.”

  2. A famous saloon in West Texas carried this unusual sign.

  3. Only such cowboys as are in desperate need of employment ever become sheepherders.

  4. Fox is a halfbreed Indian who sent me a lot of verse. Although he had never heard of Walt Whitman, these stanzas suggest that poet. The spelling and punctuation are mine.

  5. This fragment is not included in Mr. Clark’s poem.