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Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

Name: Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
Author: John Avery Lomax

John Avery Lomax; Theodore Roosevelt; Barrett Wendell

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Chapters

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001 - Dedication (2:24)
002 - Introduction (5:00)
003 - Collector's Note (16:00)
004 - The Dying Cowboy (4:03)
005 - The Days of Forty-nine (2:42)
006 - Joe Bowers (2:44)
007 - The Cowboy's Dream (2:16)
008 - The Cowboy's Life (1:53)
009 - The Kansas Line (1:53)
010 - The Cowman's Prayer (1:18)
011 - The Miner's Song (2:48)
012 - Jesse James (2:39)
013 - Poor Lonesome Cowboy (1:30)
014 - Buena Vista Battlefield (2:56)
015 - Westward Ho (1:25)
016 - A Home on the Range (1:56)
017 - Texas Rangers (3:06)
018 - The Mormon Bishop's Lament (4:02)
019 - Dan Taylor (1:53)
020 - When Work Is Done This Fall (3:10)
021 - Sioux Indians (2:19)
022 - The Old Chisholm Trail (3:34)
023 - Jack Donahoo (1:46)
024 - Utah Carroll (3:17)
025 - The Bull-whacker (2:36)
026 - The "Metis" Song of the Buffalo Hunters (1:45)
027 - The U-S-U Range (2:30)
028 - The Cowboy's Lament (4:03)
029 - Love In Disguise (2:25)
030 - Mustang Gray (1:49)
031 - Young Companions (1:58)
032 - Lackey Bill (4:49)
033 - Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies (2:03)
034 - I'm A Good Old Rebel (1:37)
035 - The Cowboy (2:31)
036 - Bill Peters, The Stage Driver (2:19)
037 - Hard Times (3:17)
038 - Cole Younger (2:19)
039 - Mississippi Girls (2:38)
040 - The Old Man Under the Hill (2:26)
041 - Jerry, Go Ile That Car (2:29)
042 - John Garner's Trail Herd (3:01)
043 - The Old Scout's Lament (1:44)
044 - The Lone Buffalo Hunter (2:46)
045 - The Crooked Trail to Holbrook (2:46)
046 - Only a Cowboy (1:48)
047 - Fuller and Warren (3:01)
048 - The Trail to Mexico (3:51)
049 - The Horse Wrangler (2:33)
050 - California Joe (7:45)
051 - The Boston Burglar (2:00)
052 - Sam Bass (3:19)
053 - The Zebra Dun (3:36)
054 - The Buffalo Skinners (3:33)
055 - Macaffie's Confession (3:04)
056 - Little Joe, The Wrangler (3:26)
057 - Harry Bale (2:11)
058 - Foreman Monroe (3:48)
059 - The Dreary Black Hills (1:57)
060 - A Mormon Song (2:39)
061 - The Buffalo Hunters (1:57)
062 - The Little Old Sod Shanty (2:52)
063 - The Gol-darned Wheel (4:41)
064 - Bonnie Black Bess (2:35)
065 - The Last Longhorn (2:41)
066 - A Prisoner for Life (2:03)
067 - The Wars of Germany (3:26)
068 - Freighting from Wilcox to Globe (3:46)
069 - The Arizona Boys and Girls (2:45)
070 - The Dying Ranger (3:27)
071 - The Fair Fannie Moore (2:40)
072 - Hell in Texas (2:40)
073 - By Markentura's Flowery Marge (2:01)
074 - The State of Arkansaw (3:28)
075 - The Texas Cowboy (3:12)
076 - The Dreary, Dreary Life (2:45)
077 - Jim Farrow (1:48)
078 - Young Charlottie (3:43)
079 - The Skew-Ball Black (1:37)
080 - The Rambling Cowboy (2:05)
081 - The Cowboy at Church (3:15)
082 - The U. S. A. Recruit (2:27)
083 - The Cowgirl (1:08)
084 - The Shanty Boy (1:28)
085 - Root Hog or Die (3:04)
086 - Sweet Betsy from Pike (2:55)
087 - The Disheartened Ranger (2:57)
088 - The Melancholy Cowboy (2:09)
089 - Bob Stanford (1:34)
090 - Charlie Rutlage (1:59)
091 - The Range Riders (2:00)
092 - Her White Bosom Bare (3:58)
093 - Juan Murray (2:13)
094 - Greer County (3:14)
095 - Rosin the Bow (2:01)
096 - The Great Round-Up (2:28)
097 - The Jolly Cowboy (3:01)
098 - The Convict (1:47)
099 - Jack O' Diamonds (3:27)
100 - The Cowboy's Meditation (2:10)
101 - Billy Venero (4:13)
102 - Dogie Song (1:06)
103 - The Boozer (1:19)
104 - Drinking Song (0:54)
105 - A Fragment (0:49)
106 - A Man Named Hods (2:41)
107 - A Fragment (0:53)
108 - The Lone Star Trail (3:36)
109 - Way Down In Mexico (1:06)
110 - Rattlesnake A Ranch Haying Song (2:17)
111 - The Railroad Corral (1:55)
112 - The Song of the "Metis" Trapper (1:58)
113 - The Camp Fire Has Gone Out (1:35)
114 - Night-Herding Song (1:40)
115 - Tail Piece (0:39)
116 - The Habit (1:38)
117 - Old Paint (1:59)
118 - Down South on the Rio Grande (1:12)
119 - Silver Jack (2:38)
120 - The Cowboy's Christmas Ball (5:47)
121 - Pinto (1:38)
122 - The Gal I Left Behind Me (1:49)
123 - Billy The Kid (1:11)
124 - The Hell-Bound Train (3:26)
125 - The Old Scout's Lament (1:42)
126 - The Deserted Adobe (2:07)
127 - The Cowboy at Work (1:56)
128 - Here's to the Ranger! (1:52)
129 - Muster Out the Ranger (1:40)
130 - A Cow Camp on the Range (1:48)
131 - Freckles. A Fragment (2:25)
132 - Whose Old Cow? (3:16)
133 - Old Time Cowboy (2:29)
134 - Bucking Broncho (2:05)
135 - The Pecos Queen (1:26)
136 - Chopo (1:17)
137 - Top Hand (2:25)
138 - California Trail (2:00)
139 - Bronc Peeler's Song (1:25)
140 - A Deer Hunt (1:47)
141 - Windy Bill (2:26)
142 - Wild Rovers (2:08)
143 - Life in a Half-Breed Shack (1:57)
144 - The Road to Cook's Peak (2:50)
145 - Araphoe, Or Buckskin Joe (3:19)
146 - Rounded up in Glory (1:17)
147 - The Drunkard's Hell (2:18)
148 - Rambling Boy (1:41)
149 - Brigham Young. I. (1:41)
150 - Brigham Young. II (2:13)
151 - The Old Gray Mule (1:15)
152 - The Fools of Forty-nine (2:24)
153 - A Ripping Trip (1:03)
154 - The Happy Miner (2:03)
155 - The California Stage Company (1:25)
156 - New National Anthem (1:24)

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