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Arthur Chapman (poet)
Arthur Chapman (June 25, 1873 – December 4, 1935) was an early twentieth-century American poet and newspaper columnist.〔("Out Where The West Begins" by Arthur Chapman )〕〔(Poetry X » Poetry Archives » Arthur Chapman )〕 He wrote a subgenre of American poetry known as Cowboy Poetry. His most famous poem was ''Out Where the West Begins''.〔(Arthur Chapman Classic Cowboy Poetry www.cowboypoetry.com )〕
== Out Where the West Begins ==
Circa 1910, after reading in an Associated Press report of a conference of the governors of the western states at which the geographic beginning of the U.S. West was disputed, he hastily composed what was to become his most famous poem, "Out Where the West Begins," celebrating the people and the land of the frontier. The first of its three seven-line stanzas ran "Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, / Out where the smile dwells a little longer, / That's where the West begins; / Out where the sun is a little brighter, / Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, / Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, / That's where the West begins." The poem was an immediate sensation, widely quoted, often imitated, and more often parodied. (One popular anonymous take-off read, in part, "Where the women boss and the men folk think / That toast is food and tea is a drink; / Where the men use powder and the wrist watch ticks, / And everyone else but themselves are hicks / That's where the East begins.") According to the dust jacket of Chapman's 1921 novel, Mystery Ranch, "To-day (Where the West Begins" ) is perhaps the best-known bit of verse in America. It hangs framed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior at Washington. It has been quoted in Congress, and printed as campaign material for at least two Governors. . . . (poems possess ) a rich Western humor such as had not been heard in American poetry since the passing of Bret Harte."
The popularity of "Out Where the West Begins" led Chapman to arrange for its publication in book form, and in 1916 he produced Out Where the West Begins, and Other Small Songs of a Big Country, a modest fifteen-page volume issued by Carson-Harper in Denver. It was an immediate success and Houghton Mifflin of Boston and New York immediately offered to publish a larger collection. Out Where the West Begins, and Other Western Verses, as it was renamed, appeared in 1917 with fifty-eight poems on ninety-two pages. The title poem was widely reprinted on postcards and plaques. It was frequently set to music, first in 1920, and achieved a separate life on the concert stage.
Chapman followed the popular volume in 1921 with the equally successful Cactus Center: Poems of an Arizona Town, containing thirty poems and running to 123 pages. The Literary Review wrote of the verse, "In vigor of style, () irresistibly suggests a transplanted Kipling" (19 Feb. 1921, p. 12).
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