Produced by David Edwards, Joe Longo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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 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; _"Cap'en" Duval_, a gentleman of Virginia, sah; _Ed Miller_, red-headed and royal-hearted; _Bates MacFarland_, calm and competent without camouflage; _Jimmie Haven_, who has put 'em over every good day since; _Charley Johnson_, "the Swede"--the fattest, richest and dearest of the bunch; _Edgar Witt_, whose loyal devotion and pertinacious energy built the "Frat" house; _Roy Bedichek_, too big for any job he has yet tackled; _"Curley" Duncan_, who possesses all the virtues of the old time cattleman and none of the vices of the new; _Rom Rhome_, the quiet and canny counter of coin; _Gavin Hunt_, student and lover of all things beautiful; _Dick Kimball_, the soldier; every inch of him a handsome man; _Alex_ and _Bruce_ and _Dave_ and _George_ and _"Freshman" Mathis_ and _Clarence_, the six Freshmen we "took in"; while _Ike MacFarland_, _Alfred Pierce Ward_, and _Guy_ and _Charlie Witt_ were still in the process of assimilation,--