First published in 1910, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is a landmark of American folk poetry. Collected from oral tradition across the Western states, the songs capture the rhythms of cattle drives, campfire nights, and the vast open range — from ‘Home on the Range’ to ‘The Streets of Laredo’ — in vernacular verse of remarkable vitality.
An essential text of American folk literature, this collection preserves a vanishing oral tradition. The free EPUB is cleanly formatted with each song’s verse structure and refrains intact.