Cowboys' Prayer

Subjects: Horses Religious & Devotional Life Workers & Occupations
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Cowboys' Prayer, Albuquerque, NM, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard — Back

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A linen postcard featuring an illustration of two cowboys on horseback watching a large herd of cattle on a grassy plain, with desert plants and clouds below. The lower half contains the poem 'Cowboys' Prayer' printed in blue on a textured background.

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PublisherCurt Teich & Co.

N-25 COWBOYS' PRAYER O Lord, I've never lived where churches grow; I've loved creation better as it stood That day you finished it, so long ago, And looked upon your work and called it good. Just let me live my life as I've begun! And give me work that's open to the sky; Make me a partner of the wind and sun, And I won't ask a life that's soft and high. Make me as big and open as the plains; As honest as the horse between my knees; Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains; Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze. Just keep an eye on all that's done and said; Just right me sometime when I turn aside; And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead— That stretches upward towards the Great Divide. Author Unknown --- N-25—COWBOY'S PRAYER POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE 9A-H768 GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO "C.T. ART-COLORTONE" POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.) DISTRIBUTED BY SOUTHWEST POST CARD CO., BOX 685, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.

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Postcard record

Series	N-25
Condition	Very good
Place mentioned	Albuquerque, NM
Publisher	Curt Teich & Co., Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL
Notes	Linen texture; printed code N-25 at top left; no white border. No postmark. Divided-back linen card with Curt Teich 'C.T. Art-Colortone' imprint (9A-H768), circa late 1930s-1940s. No stamp, no address, no handwritten message; only a pencil dealer mark '#59 1-' at lower right.

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Cowboys' Prayer, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/cowboys-prayer. Accessed October 5, 2026.