{"id":563,"date":"2021-02-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2021-02-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T06:00:00","slug":"the-indian-rancher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-indian-rancher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indian Rancher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84022770\/1913-02-07\/ed-1\/seq-5\/\"><em>Washington Standard, February 7, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n My fathers roamed the prairie\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In the days when men were free,\n But a hundred and sixty acres\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is the home that must do for me;\n I must master the plow and reaper,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor look at the winding trails,\n And thousands there are to jeer me\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In case the red rancher fails.\n \n My fathers dwelt in the open,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But I have a stifling shack;\n I dream of the shining tepees,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But the morn brings sharply back\n The fences that clip one\u2019s freedom\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The ranch and the toil that waits\u2014\n And I say farewell to my fathers\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When I open the barnyard gates.\n \n But visions still overwhelm me\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In spite of my will to win\n And the fences and buildings vanish\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And the village comes trooping in;\n The tepees gleam in the meadow\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The children shout by the stream\n But I wake at the clank of the harness\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2019Tis only a red man\u2019s dream!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> My fathers roamed the prairie<br \/>\n     In the days when men were free,<br \/>\n But a hundred and sixty acres<br \/>\n     Is the home that must do for me;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-washington-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}