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Dear Mr. Lomax, You have done a work emphatically worth doing and one which should appeal to the people of all our country, but particularly to the people of the west and southwest. Your subject is not only exceedingly interesting to the student of literature, but also to the student of the general history of the west. There is something very curious in the reproduction here on this new continent of essentially the conditions of ballad-growth which obtained in mediæval England; including, by the way, sympathy for the outlaw, Jesse James taking the place of Robin Hood. Under modern. | COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS COLLECTED BY JOHN A. LOMAX M.A. 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 Dear Mr. Lomax You have done a work emphatically worth doing and one which should appeal to the people of all our country but particularly to the people of the west and southwest. Your subject is not only exceedingly interesting to the student of literature but also to the student of the general history of the west. There is something very curious in the reproduction here on this new continent of essentially the conditions of ballad-growth which obtained in medieval England including by the way sympathy for the outlaw Jesse James taking the place of Robin Hood. Under modern conditions however the native ballad is speedily killed by competition with the music hall songs the cowboys becoming ashamed to sing the crude homespun ballads in view of what Owen Writes calls the ill-smelling saloon cleverness of the far less interesting compositions of the music-hall singers. It is therefore a work of real importance to preserve permanently this unwritten ballad literature of the back country and the frontier. With all good wishes I am very truly yours Theodore Roosevelt CONTENTS Araphoe or Buckskin Joe Arizona Boys and Girls The Bill peters the stage Driver Billy the kid Billy VENERO Bob .
