Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Credits: John A. Lomax (author)
Summary
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
Chapters (154)
- 1. The Dying Cowboy
- 2. The Days of Forty-Nine
- 3. Joe Bowers
- 4. The Cowboy's Dream
- 5. The Cowboy's Life
- 6. The Kansas Line
- 7. The Cowman's Prayer
- 8. The Miner's Song
- 9. Jesse James
- 10. Poor Lonesome Cowboy
- 11. Buena Vista Battlefield
- 12. Westward Ho
- 13. A Home on the Range
- 14. Texas Rangers
- 15. The Mormon Bishop's Lament
- 16. Dan Taylor
- 17. When Work Is Done This Fall
- 18. Sioux Indians
- 19. The Old Chisholm Trail
- 20. Jack Donahoo
- 21. Utah Carroll
- 22. The Bull-Whacker
- 23. By Robideau
- 24. The Cowboy's Lament
- 25. Love in Disguise
- 26. Mustang Gray
- 27. Young Companions
- 28. Lackey Bill
- 29. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies
- 30. The U-S-U Range
- 31. I'm a Good Old Rebel
- 32. The Cowboy
- 33. Bill Peters, the Stage Driver
- 34. Hard Times
- 35. Cole Younger
- 36. Mississippi Girls
- 37. The Old Man Under the Hill
- 38. Jerry, Go Ile That Car
- 39. John Garner's Trail Herd
- 40. The Old Scout's Lament
- 41. The Lone Buffalo Hunter
- 42. The Crooked Trail to Holbrook
- 43. Only a Cowboy
- 44. Fuller and Warren
- 45. The Trail to Mexico
- 46. The Horse Wrangler
- 47. California Joe
- 48. The Boston Burglar
- 49. Sam Bass
- 50. The Zebra Dun
Showing the first 50 chapters.