Where Men Are Men

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Where Men Are Men</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <div> <I><B>In the settled East, in the crowded places</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They gibe with pencil, they jab with pen</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Whenever you write of "The Open Spaces</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Open Spaces where Men Are Men!"</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And you cannot blame them, you cannot wonder,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The phrase is hackneyed and far from new;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It's worked to frazzles--and yet, by thunder,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Sneer as you want to, the phrase is true!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Gone are the days of the ready trigger,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Of cattle wars on the open range,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But still in the West the men "bulk bigger,"</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And the hearts within show little change;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They still will gamble with Fate, uncaring,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And, losing, start from the scratch again.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>There's plenty left of the old-time daring</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Out in the West where "the Men are Men!"</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Let the cynics sneer; yet when I am searching</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For the best there is in a loyal friend,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For a pal whose honor shall know no smirching,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Whose faith will last to the very end.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'll look in the lean and sun-bronzed faces</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Under the Western skies, for then</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I'll find that friend--in the Open Spaces,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Open Spaces where Men are Men!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Pu</I><I>blishe</I><I>d in: </I><A HREF="complete_stories.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Complete Stories"><U><I>Complete Stories</I></U></A><I> - February 1927</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>