Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads

What keeps the herd from running, Stampeding far and wide? The cowboy's long, low whistle, And singing by their side.
COLLECTED BY
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, 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 MR. THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHO WHILE PRESIDENT WAS NOT TOO BUSY TO TURN ASIDE—CHEERFULLY AND EFFECTIVELY—AND AID WORKERS IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN BALLADRY, THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED