About this book
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" is his collection that propelled him to the forefront of his field and ignited new interest in American folklore, inspiring many to continue research. For his contributions to the field of cowboy music, Locas was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Many of the verses here are accompanied by musical scores, and some may be more familiar in their musical form such as "A Home on the Range." A wide array of characters and life across the western United States is represented here. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters (156)
1Dedication
2Introduction
3Collector's Note
4The Dying Cowboy
5The Days of Forty-nine
6Joe Bowers
7The Cowboy's Dream
8The Cowboy's Life
9The Kansas Line
10The Cowman's Prayer
11The Miner's Song
12Jesse James
13Poor Lonesome Cowboy
14Buena Vista Battlefield
15Westward Ho
16A Home on the Range
17Texas Rangers
18The Mormon Bishop's Lament
19Dan Taylor
20When Work Is Done This Fall
21Sioux Indians
22The Old Chisholm Trail
23Jack Donahoo
24Utah Carroll
25The Bull-whacker
26The "Metis" Song of the Buffalo Hunters
27The U-S-U Range
28The Cowboy's Lament
29Love In Disguise
30Mustang Gray
31Young Companions
32Lackey Bill
33Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
34I'm A Good Old Rebel
35The Cowboy
36Bill Peters, The Stage Driver
37Hard Times
38Cole Younger
39Mississippi Girls
40The Old Man Under the Hill
41Jerry, Go Ile That Car
42John Garner's Trail Herd
43The Old Scout's Lament
44The Lone Buffalo Hunter
45The Crooked Trail to Holbrook
46Only a Cowboy
47Fuller and Warren
48The Trail to Mexico
49The Horse Wrangler
50California Joe
51The Boston Burglar
52Sam Bass
53The Zebra Dun
54The Buffalo Skinners
55Macaffie's Confession
56Little Joe, The Wrangler
57Harry Bale
58Foreman Monroe
59The Dreary Black Hills
60A Mormon Song
61The Buffalo Hunters
62The Little Old Sod Shanty
63The Gol-darned Wheel
64Bonnie Black Bess
65The Last Longhorn
66A Prisoner for Life
67The Wars of Germany
68Freighting from Wilcox to Globe
69The Arizona Boys and Girls
70The Dying Ranger
71The Fair Fannie Moore
72Hell in Texas
73By Markentura's Flowery Marge
74The State of Arkansaw
75The Texas Cowboy
76The Dreary, Dreary Life
77Jim Farrow
78Young Charlottie
79The Skew-Ball Black
80The Rambling Cowboy
81The Cowboy at Church
82The U. S. A. Recruit
83The Cowgirl
84The Shanty Boy
85Root Hog or Die
86Sweet Betsy from Pike
87The Disheartened Ranger
88The Melancholy Cowboy
89Bob Stanford
90Charlie Rutlage
91The Range Riders
92Her White Bosom Bare
93Juan Murray
94Greer County
95Rosin the Bow
96The Great Round-Up
97The Jolly Cowboy
98The Convict
99Jack O' Diamonds
100The Cowboy's Meditation
101Billy Venero
102Dogie Song
103The Boozer
104Drinking Song
105A Fragment
106A Man Named Hods
107A Fragment
108The Lone Star Trail
109Way Down In Mexico
110Rattlesnake A Ranch Haying Song
111The Railroad Corral
112The Song of the "Metis" Trapper
113The Camp Fire Has Gone Out
114Night-Herding Song
115Tail Piece
116The Habit
117Old Paint
118Down South on the Rio Grande
119Silver Jack
120The Cowboy's Christmas Ball
121Pinto
122The Gal I Left Behind Me
123Billy The Kid
124The Hell-Bound Train
125The Old Scout's Lament
126The Deserted Adobe
127The Cowboy at Work
128Here's to the Ranger!
129Muster Out the Ranger
130A Cow Camp on the Range
131Freckles. A Fragment
132Whose Old Cow?
133Old Time Cowboy
134Bucking Broncho
135The Pecos Queen
136Chopo
137Top Hand
138California Trail
139Bronc Peeler's Song
140A Deer Hunt
141Windy Bill
142Wild Rovers
143Life in a Half-Breed Shack
144The Road to Cook's Peak
145Araphoe, Or Buckskin Joe
146Rounded up in Glory
147The Drunkard's Hell
148Rambling Boy
149Brigham Young. I.
150Brigham Young. II
151The Old Gray Mule
152The Fools of Forty-nine
153A Ripping Trip
154The Happy Miner
155The California Stage Company
156New National Anthem
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