SONGS OF THE CATTLE
TRAIL AND COW CAMP
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| SONGS OF THE CATTLE TRAIL AND COW CAMP COLLECTED BY JOHN A. LOMAX, B.A., M.A. Executive Secretary Ex-Students' Association, the University of Texas. For three years Sheldon Fellow from Harvard University for the Collection of American Ballads; Ex-President American Folk-Lore Society. Collector of "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads"; joint author with Dr. H. Y. Benedict of "The Book of Texas." WITH A FOREWORD BY WILLIAM LYON PHELPS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1919 All rights reserved |
| Copyright, 1919 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1919. |
"THAT THESE DEAR FRIENDS I LEAVE BEHIND
MAY KEEP KIND HEARTS' REMEMBRANCE OF THE LOVE WE HAD."
Solon.
In affectionate gratitude to a group of men, my intimate friends during College days (brought under one roof by a "Fraternity"), whom I still love not less but more,
Will Prather, Hammett Hardy, Penn Hargrove and Harry Steger, of precious and joyous memory;
Norman Crozier, not yet quite emerged from Presbyterianism;
Eugene Barker, cynical, solid, unafraid;