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The title poem was widely reprinted on postcards and plaques. In 1920, "Out Where the West Begins" was first set to music. The poem later achieved a separate life on the concert stage. In 1921, Chapman published the equally successful Cactus Center: Poems of an Arizona Town, containing 30 poems.
"Out Where The West Begins"—Cover of sheet music, 1920. [1] "Out Where the West Begins" is a poem written by Arthur Chapman and first published in his 1917 book of verse, Out Where the West Begins: And Other Western Verses. It is his most popular poem, still included in modern readings and compilations of Cowboy and Western poetry.
A Cycle of the West is a collection of five epic poems (called "Songs") written and published over a nearly thirty-year span by John G. Neihardt.As one extended work of literature, the Cycle treats historical topics from the American settlement of the Great Plains and the displacement of the Native American cultures there.
Newcomers and visitors to the West often don't "get" this complicated region. Writer Dave Marston hopes to help by proposing a new Code of the West.
Code of the West, an unwritten, socially agreed upon set of informal laws shaping the cowboy culture of the Old West; The Code of the West, a 1934 novel by Zane Grey; Code of the West, a 1925 American Western silent film; Code of the West, based on the novel by Zane Grey; previously filmed under the same name in 1925; unrelated movies of the ...
James Edwin Campbell (September 28, 1867 – January 26, 1896) was an American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist. Campbell was the first principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute (present-day West Virginia State University) from 1892 until 1894, and is considered by the university as its first president.
Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer "Pioneers!O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman.It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west.
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