Orejana Bull

Gardner's poems, many of which have been set to music, have provided amusement for cowboys and for people all over the world with an ear for the authentic lore of the American West. He enjoys a unique status among the best cowboy poets of all time. The first poem in this collection, The Sierry Petes, or Tying the Knots in the Devil's Tail, is undoubtedly the single best-known cowboy song among working cowboys today. These gems, the full works of Gail Gardner, are not available from any other single published source. The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings, contains sheet music for some of the songs, a glossary of cowboy terminology, a brief autobiography, foreward by cowboy singer Warren E. Miller, and notes to the poems.