Sun and Saddle Leather: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sun and Saddle Leather, credited to Charles Badger Clark, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Sun and Saddle Leather by Charles Badger Clark. Read in English by Eileen Tipping; Ed Humpal Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost girlfriends, and love of the vast unboundaried West. It was best accompanied by a hot tin cup of boiled coffee, dunked biscuits, and beef jerky. The rhymed couplets were easy to remember, and once the day's drive was done, everybody had a few hours to listen to friends and wonder at the stars. Badger Clark gave voice and record to this unique American folk art, and built on it to express his own creative genius. He was declared the first Poet Laureate of South Dakota, or as he liked to say, “Poet Lariat.” Summary by Ed Humpal

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sun and Saddle Leather
• Author credits: Charles Badger Clark
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 1:09:07

Catalogue topics

• American West
• cowboy poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Preface — 9:18
2. 01 - Ridin' — 2:37
3. 02 - The Song of the Leather — 2:14
4. 03 - A Bad Half Hour — 2:08
5. 04 - From Town — 2:35
6. 05 - A Cowboy's Prayer — 2:20
7. 06 - The Christmas Trail — 2:43
8. 07 - A Border Affair — 2:10
9. 08 - The Bunk-House Orchestra — 2:12
10. 09 - The Outlaw — 2:03
11. 10 - The Legend of Boastful Bill — 3:03
12. 11 - The Tied Maverick — 2:18
13. 12 - The Roundup Lullaby — 3:04
14. 13 - The Trail o' Love — 2:15
15. 14 - Bachin' — 2:16
16. 15 - The Glory Trail — 3:01
17. 16 - Bacon — 1:44
18. 17 - The Lost Pardner — 2:43
19. 18 - God's Reserves — 2:59
20. 19 - The Married Man — 3:20
21. 20 - The Old Cow Man — 2:47
22. 21 - The Plainsmen — 3:09
23. 22 - The Westerner — 2:32
24. 23 - The Wind is Blowin' — 1:45

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