...another good cowboy gone west...
Joe Bowman
April 12, 1925 - June 28, 2009
R.I.P.
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Those are the friends we remember with tears;
Few are the words that such comrades have spoken -
Deeds are their tributes that last through the years.
Men in the rough - sons of prairie and mountain -
Children of nature, warm-hearted, clear-eyed;
Friendship with them is a never-sealed fountain;
Strangers are they to the altars of pride.
Men in the rough - curt of speech to their fellows -
Ready in everything, save to deceive;
Theirs are the friendships that time only mellows,
And death cannot sever the bonds that they weave.
Men in the Rough by Arthur Chapman, 1917
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