Hanson’s rough-hewn ballads come from the Dakota frontier: militia men and cavalry troopers, the girl of the Yankton stockade, Sergeant Ross, the Springfield .50 rifle, a garrison Christmas, and homesteaders swapping yarns in the boom years. Dialect monologues sit beside rousing marching verse, and Maynard Dixon’s drawings illustrate the book.
Lively Western verse for anyone who likes cowboy poetry and the army posts of the old Northwest. Download the free EPUB.