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Cowboy Poetry and Barn Sour Verse Written by V. June Blevins Collins, and Self-Published by Author. Life’s Stories of happenings anointed in ranch life. Is a 288 page, 8 ½” X 11,” in large print. On page 250-251 you’ll find poem Barn Sour, actively showing why this horse is barn sour. My book Cowboy Poetry, and Barn Sour Verse stories, are from happenings, incidents, and remembrances, in truth and zest, which my active life has dished up. Many selections have explanations, as to what keyed the writings. Notations clarify cowboy terminology, Cowboy Poetry often memorized, and recited for others entertainment as passed down through generations. Artwork; Front and Back Covers designed by: Author V. June Blevins Collins. More than eighty Color, and Black & White photos by Author. All Photos identified. Barn Sour Verse...to ranchers is understood to be where horse prefers to be, after a winter of easy chow, and care. He doesn’t want to leave his shelter of the barn, and easy life. Riding him away often, is quite a chore, the horse is then called Barn Sour. Related in similar manner, is the stay at home variety verses, written of happenings around home place, corral, and barn, known as Barn Sour Verse. Book includes Biographical resume; Content pages; Index pages; Individual list pages (those connections, which caused writings to spark). As my years advanced, some of my poems have been allowed me to poke fun, and jostle my age. Click here for the rest of the story... Such is my Life Information of Parents, and Grandparents, life growing up, spanning nearly 100 years, history, and tidbits remember. Beginning “Early Start” (at two years of age, as told many times, by mother), was during time of establishment of the early day trail system Oregon.

"Dear June, Congratulations! What a wonderful collection of memories and treasures! I laughed and smiled my way through your poems and stories. You have put together a huge segment of history in this book, and it is something to cherish, and be proud of. I’m sure your family and friends as well as those who latch onto a copy will enjoy this volume for years to come. Being a wife of a fourth-generation rancher gives me greater insight into some of the unique twists, and turns your life’s experiences have taken, and for that, I got an extra chuckle. Certainly I can empthize over many your predicaments with horse, cow, and husband. Again, congratulations on a job well done. What a great work, and piece of local and personal history. Thanks for letting me be a part of the early reading. Sincerely, Gail L. Jenner" -- From Author Gail Jenners of: “Across The Sweet Grass Hills,” which in 2002 won the Willa Award for Best Original Paperback / Fiction. Also in 2002 she had a book published, “Western Siskiyou County, Gold and Dreams. “co-authored with Monica me Hall "Dear June, by golly, you've done it and it's looking darn good! I like your book. It covers a lot of ground, almost a hundred years! I like to imagine you and your sister riding seven miles each day to school, and also you, at seven years old, making hay and loving it. You've had a full and happy life, June--full of horses and full of fun. Your 1300 mile ride on the Chief Joseph Trail across Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming was quite a feat --certainly one worth remembering. I'd remembered you telling me about that but hadn't known about the 500 mile Sheltowee Ride through Tennassee and Kentucky or the 200 mile Apache Ride near the Mexican border of Arizona. You've spent a good part of your life on the back of a horse, June, and your book lets me share a bit of the view from up there. And the things I've learned! If I'm ever tending a four- wire fence in th high country I'll be sure to drop the wires before the deep snows come. Whoo! I've just read again about you falling out of your mother's saddle when you were two years old. The horse didn't quite step on you but you ended up with a broken leg just the same, and your parents set and bound with some alder splints and dish towels. Exciting. It's a good book, June. Your sense of fun comes through, and your cowgirl charm. Good job. Well done." -- Welhelmina. (Wilhelmina Warick co-editor)

Collins, V. June - Born Prineville, Oregon. Daughter of Lee Edward Blevins & Awilda Josephine (O'Kelley) Blevins, raised on Upper Ochoco. Much time spent at Grandparents Isaac M. and Cora (Miller) Blevins ranch, near where lived at Ochoco Ranger Station. Helped with ranch work, milking, irrigating, feeding, haying, storing hay both in stacks, and barn. Winter months, haul hay to feed to the cattle. In spring help with branding, driving cattle to summer range, horse-back trips to check cattle, lead pack horse loaded with salt for cattle. In fall again, gather herd from hills and drive back to ranch. Received my own horse at age of ten, having graduated from good cow horse, (teacher) that knew far more than I; Went to a one room, all grade, country school near ranch; High School in Prineville, Graduated from High School in Grants Pass, Oregon, and Pacific School of Beauty Culture Portland, Oregon with a gold seal on diploma, signifying grades above ninety five; Married G. J. (Jerry) Collins in Reno, Nevada. Spent all married life in Siskiyou County, California. Had two sons, Michael “Mike” (now deceased), & Lael Collins. Was involved for years in Rock-hounding & Geology study. Gathering, cutting & polishing many mineral varieties. Have written poetry much of life. A book in 1965 of Klamath River Flood Devastation Photos by Melvina Boughton used my Poem Hungry Waters; Book “Collected Works of Siskiyou” 1992 includes three of my poems. A number of my poems have been published nationally. Book “Song Of The Siskiyous,” 1999 includes two of my poems, among a variety other local Cowboy Poets, Poems. Have raised, bred, trained, and shown Buckskin Horses for twenty-six years; The first Buckskin horse show in nation held at Siskiyou Golden Fair Grounds in Yreka, California. I was actively involved, supplied much active footwork at these events, twenty five years, through 1980; Designed Insignia for American Buckskin Registry Assoc., Inc. 1967, it is used World Wide; I retired from raising horses in 1989 still have a couple of pentioner mares, and a burro. Have ridden horseback fifteen hundred miles on The Chief Joseph Trail Ride. Received Award for being the first person to finished the full distance of thirteen hundred miles on the same rented horse, “Blue.” Riding from Wallowa, Oregon through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, back into Montana, to with in thirty miles of the Canadian Border, Have ridden 500 miles in Kentucky and Tennessee, and 200 miles in near Douglas Arizona, next to the Mexican Border (Geronimo Country). Have compiled more than forty, four inch binders of genealogy, on my husbands and my lines. Have transferred much of it into computer into Family Tree; For thirty years used poetry for our Christmas cards; Have since 1990 annually, shared poetry at local Community Theatre, at Cowboy Poetry fund raiser. I am a member of the National Writers Association; Siskiyou Writers Club; National Authors Registry; Yreka Trail Riders; Genealogical Society of Siskiyou County; DAR & a Rotary Ann; I am a Life member of American Buckskin Registry Association; Crook County Oregon Historical Society; Siskiyou County Historical Society of California.

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