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Title: Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

Author: Various

Compiler: John A. Lomax

Contributor: William Lyon Phelps

Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21723]

Language: English

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SONGS OF THE CATTLE
TRAIL AND COW CAMP

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

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

New York
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 mo