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Tyin a knot in the Devils Tail cowboy poet Gail Gardner | AZpoetry.com

2024

Tyin’ Knots in the Devils Tail

By Gail Gardner

Two rowdy cowboys encounter the Devil, capture him with their ropes, brand him, knot his tail and send him away defeated in an exaggerated Western tall tale.