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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

By John A. Lomax (collector)

Cover of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

Cover: The Cowboy (c. 1895-1899), watercolour and gouache by Frederic Remington (1861-1909) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1909)

John Lomax's 1910 collection of songs he gathered from cowboys, miners and railroad hands in the American West, among them The Dying Cowboy, Jesse James and The Days of Forty-Nine. The songs are given with his headnotes, and the introductions are left out here.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Dying Cowboy
  2. 2: The Days of Forty-Nine
  3. 3: Joe Bowers
  4. 4: The Cowboy's Dream
  5. 5: The Cowboy's Life
  6. 6: The Kansas Line
  7. 7: The Cowman's Prayer
  8. 8: The Miner's Song
  9. 9: Jesse James
  10. 10: Poor Lonesome Cowboy
  11. 11: Buena Vista Battlefield
  12. 12: Westward Ho
  13. 13: A Home on the Range
  14. 14: Texas Rangers
  15. 15: The Mormon Bishop's Lament
  16. 16: Dan Taylor
  17. 17: When Work Is Done This Fall
  18. 18: Sioux Indians
  19. 19: The Old Chisholm Trail
  20. 20: Jack Donahoo
  21. 21: Utah Carroll
  22. 22: The Bull-Whacker
  23. 23: By Robideau
  24. 24: The Cowboy's Lament
  25. 25: Love in Disguise
  26. 26: Mustang Gray
  27. 27: Young Companions
  28. 28: Lackey Bill
  29. 29: Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
  30. 30: The U-S-U Range
  31. 31: I'm a Good Old Rebel
  32. 32: The Cowboy
  33. 33: Bill Peters, the Stage Driver
  34. 34: Hard Times
  35. 35: Cole Younger
  36. 36: Mississippi Girls
  37. 37: The Old Man Under the Hill
  38. 38: Jerry, Go Ile That Car
  39. 39: John Garner's Trail Herd
  40. 40: The Old Scout's Lament
  41. 41: The Lone Buffalo Hunter
  42. 42: The Crooked Trail to Holbrook
  43. 43: Only a Cowboy
  44. 44: Fuller and Warren
  45. 45: The Trail to Mexico
  46. 46: The Horse Wrangler
  47. 47: California Joe
  48. 48: The Boston Burglar
  49. 49: Sam Bass
  50. 50: The Zebra Dun
  51. 51: The Buffalo Skinners
  52. 52: Macaffie's Confession
  53. 53: Little Joe, the Wrangler
  54. 54: Harry Bale
  55. 55: Foreman Monroe
  56. 56: The Dreary Black Hills
  57. 57: A Mormon Song
  58. 58: The Buffalo Hunters
  59. 59: The Little Old Sod Shanty
  60. 60: The Gol-Darned Wheel
  61. 61: Bonnie Black Bess
  62. 62: The Last Longhorn
  63. 63: A Prisoner for Life
  64. 64: The Wars of Germany
  65. 65: Freighting from Wilcox to Globe
  66. 66: The Arizona Boys and Girls
  67. 67: The Dying Ranger
  68. 68: The Fair Fannie Moore
  69. 69: Hell in Texas
  70. 70: By Markentura's Flowery Marge
  71. 71: The State of Arkansaw
  72. 72: The Texas Cowboy
  73. 73: The Dreary, Dreary Life
  74. 74: Jim Farrow
  75. 75: Young Charlottie
  76. 76: The Skew-Ball Black
  77. 77: The Rambling Cowboy
  78. 78: The Cowboy at Church
  79. 79: The U. S. A. Recruit
  80. 80: The Cowgirl
  81. 81: The Shanty Boy
  82. 82: Root Hog or Die
  83. 83: Sweet Betsy from Pike
  84. 84: The Disheartened Ranger
  85. 85: The Melancholy Cowboy
  86. 86: Bob Stanford
  87. 87: Charlie Rutlage
  88. 88: The Range Riders
  89. 89: Her White Bosom Bare
  90. 90: Juan Murray
  91. 91: Greer County
  92. 92: Rosin the Bow
  93. 93: The Great Round-Up
  94. 94: The Jolly Cowboy
  95. 95: Chorus
  96. 96: The Convict
  97. 97: Jack O' Diamonds
  98. 98: The Cowboy's Meditation
  99. 99: Billy Venero
  100. 100: Dogie Song
  101. 101: The Boozer
  102. 102: Drinking Song
  103. 103: A Fragment
  104. 104: A Man Named Hods
  105. 105: A Fragment
  106. 106: The Lone Star Trail
  107. 107: Way Down in Mexico
  108. 108: Rattlesnake--a Ranch Haying Song
  109. 109: The Railroad Corral
  110. 110: By Rolette
  111. 111: The Camp Fire Has Gone Out
  112. 112: By Harry Stephens
  113. 113: Tail Piece
  114. 114: The Habit
  115. 115: Old Paint
  116. 116: Down South on the Rio Grande
  117. 117: Silver Jack
  118. 118: The Cowboy's Christmas Ball
  119. 119: Pinto
  120. 120: The Gal I Left Behind Me
  121. 121: Billy the Kid
  122. 122: The Hell-Bound Train
  123. 123: The Old Scout's Lament
  124. 124: The Deserted Adobe
  125. 125: The Cowboy at Work
  126. 126: Here's to the Ranger!
  127. 127: Muster Out the Ranger
  128. 128: A Cow Camp on the Range
  129. 129: Freckles. a Fragment
  130. 130: Whose Old Cow?
  131. 131: Old Time Cowboy
  132. 132: Bucking Broncho
  133. 133: The Pecos Queen
  134. 134: Chopo
  135. 135: Top Hand
  136. 136: California Trail
  137. 137: Bronc Peeler's Song
  138. 138: A Deer Hunt
  139. 139: Windy Bill
  140. 140: Wild Rovers
  141. 141: Life in a Half-Breed Shack
  142. 142: The Road to Cook's Peak
  143. 143: Araphoe, or Buckskin Joe
  144. 144: Rounded Up in Glory
  145. 145: The Drunkard's Hell
  146. 146: Rambling Boy
  147. 147: Brigham Young. I
  148. 148: Brigham Young. II
  149. 149: The Old Gray Mule
  150. 150: The Fools of Forty-Nine
  151. 151: A Ripping Trip
  152. 152: The Happy Miner
  153. 153: The California Stage Company
  154. 154: New National Anthem