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COWBOY SONGS (p. i) AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS
What keeps the herd from running, (p. ii)
Stampeding far and wide?
The cowboy's long, low whistle,
And singing by their side.
COWBOY SONGS (p. i) AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS
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COWBOY SONGS (p. iii) AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS
COLLECTED BY
JOHN A. LOMAX, M.A.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
SHELDON FELLOW FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF AMERICAN BALLADS,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
BARRETT WENDELL
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1929
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1910, 1916, (p. iv)
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1910. Reprinted April, 1911; January, 1915.
New Edition with additions, March, 1916; April, 1917; December, 1918; July, 1919.
Reissued January, 1927. Reprinted February, 1929.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
BY BERWICK & SMITH CO.
To(p. v)
MR. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
WHO WHILE PRESIDENT WAS NOT TOO BUSY TO
TURN ASIDE—CHEERFULLY AND EFFECTIVELYAND
AID WORKERS IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN
BALLADRY, THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY
DEDICATED
(p. vii)
Cheyenne
Aug 28th 1910
Dear Mr. Lomax,
You have done a work emphatically worth doing and one which should appeal to the people of all our
country, but particularly to the people of the west and southwest. Your subject is not only exceedingly
interesting to the student of literature, but also to the student of the general history of the west. There is
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something very curious in the reproduction here on this new continent of essentially the conditions of
ballad-growth which obtained in mediæval England; including, by the way, sympathy for the outlaw, Jesse
James taking the place of Robin Hood. Under modern conditions however, the native ballad is speedily killed
by competition with the music hall songs; the cowboys becoming ashamed to sing the crude homespun
ballads in view of what Owen Writes calls the "ill-smelling saloon cleverness" (p. viii) of the far less
interesting compositions of the music-hall singers. It is therefore a work of real importance to preserve
permanently this unwritten ballad literature of the back country and the frontier.
With all good wishes, I am
very truly yours
Theodore Roosevelt
CONTENTS
(p. ix)
Araphoe, or Buckskin Joe
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Arizona Boys and Girls, The
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Bill Peters, the Stage Driver
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Billy the Kid
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Billy Venero
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Bob Stanford
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Bonnie Black Bess
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Boozer, The
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Boston Burglar, The
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Brigham Young, I
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Brigham Young, II
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Bronc Peeler's Song
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Bucking Broncho
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Buena Vista Battlefield
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Buffalo Hunters
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Buffalo Skinners, The
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Bull Whacker, The
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By Markentura's Flowery Marge
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California Joe
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California Stage Company
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California Trail
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Camp Fire Has Gone Out, The
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Charlie Rutlage
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Chopo
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Cole Younger
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Convict, The
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Cow Camp on the Range, A (p. x)
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Cowboy, The
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Cowboy at Church, The
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Cowboy at Work, The
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Cowboy's Christmas Ball, The
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Cowboy's Dream, The
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Cowboy's Lament, The
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads. Collected by John A. Lomax, M.A.
JOHN A. LOMAX, M.A.
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