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Title Songs of the American West / compiled and edited by Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard A. Dwyer, & David Cohen ; drawings by Steven M. Johnson.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1968.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1629 .S66 L56    Available  ---
Description 1 score (xii, 595 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm
score
Note Unaccompanied melodies; includes chord symbols.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 573-584.
Contents To the west -- To the west : a parody -- Hell in Texas -- Ho! for California! -- I'm off for California -- The rolling stone -- Westward ho -- Coming around the Horn -- The fools of '49 -- Oh, California -- A ripping trip -- Humbug steamship companies -- Sacramento -- The dying Californian -- Crossing the Plains -- O if I was at home again -- Sweet Betsey from Pike -- Emigrant from Pike -- Arrival of the greenhorn -- Johnny's dead -- The pioneer stage driver -- California Stage Company -- The overland stage driver -- The bull-whacker -- Bill Peters, the stage driver -- Pete Orman -- Freighting from Wilcox to Globe -- The railroad cars are coming -- Subsidy : a Goat Island ballad -- The iron horse -- Echo Canyon -- Bishop Zack, the Mormon engineer -- Way out in Idaho -- The wandering laborer's song -- The Peninsula Pike -- Casey Jones, the Union scab -- Seeing the elephant -- Hunting after gold -- The gold digger's lament -- Prospecting dream -- California ball -- Joe Bowers -- The lousy miner -- California as it is -- California bloomer -- California Joe -- When I went off to prospect -- San Juan -- Cherry creek emigrant's song -- A hit at the times -- In the summer of sixty -- A trip to Salmon -- Idaho -- The dreary Black Hills -- A trip to Rapid River -- Just from Dawson -- The Apex Boarding House -- An honest miner -- The happy miner -- A miners' meeting -- I want to make the riffle -- We came to Tamichi -- The Seven Devil mines -- Colorado home -- When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner -- Casey Jones, the miner -- The broken-hearted leaser -- The Belmont stopes -- I wandered today up the hill, Maggie -- The rustling song -- Bisbee's queen -- Cousin Jack -- I once was a carman in the big mountain con -- Drill, ye miners, drill! -- Only a miner killed in the breast -- Stand by your union -- The copper strike of '17 -- The miner -- The scab's lament -- A scabby cousin Jack -- Strike breaker's lament -- Solidarity forever -- Come, come, ye saints -- There is a people in the west -- Upper California -- Deseret -- They cry "Deluded Mormons" -- A church without a prophet -- In the hive of Deseret --
The handcarts -- Early this spring we'll leave Nauvoo -- In 1864 -- The way they emigrate -- Wish I was a Mormonite -- Brigham Young -- The Mormon king -- The Mormon creed -- Mormon love serenade -- My wife has become a Mormonite -- In the midst of these awful Mormons -- The cohabs -- The Mormon question -- The Mormons in the mountains -- The Mormon du dah song -- All are talking of Utah -- The Mountain Meadows massacre -- Uncle Sam and the Mormons -- The Mormon bishop's lament -- The Mormon car -- The merry Mormons -- Sea gulls and crickets -- Home manufactures -- Once I lived in Cottonwood -- Early life in Dixie -- St. George -- The boys of Sanpete County -- Tittery-irie-aye -- The Sioux Indians -- The Indian ghost dance and war -- The ride of Paul Venarez -- Plantonio, the pride of the plains -- The Texas Rangers -- The disheartened Ranger -- The dying Ranger -- A fair lady of the plains -- Custer's last charge -- The regular army, O! -- Mustang gray -- The Mormon battalion -- The desert route -- The Sonora filibusters -- Our leaky tents -- There is no work in the army -- Old Arizona again -- It's a long, long way to capture Villa -- When we go marching home -- John Chinaman -- Josh, John -- John Chinaman, my Jo -- John Chinaman's appeal -- John Chinaman's marriage -- Hay Sing, come from China -- Twelve hundred more -- Long John, Chineeman -- Since the Chinese ruint the thrade -- Get out, yellow-skins, get out -- What was your name in the States? -- Quantrell -- Sam Bass -- Joaquin the horse-thief -- Billy the Kid -- Cole Younger -- Portland County Jail -- Experience -- Pretty Boy Floyd -- The Texas cowboy -- I want to be a cowboy -- Yellowstone flat -- The captain of the cowboys -- Top hand -- The jolly vaquero -- The horse wrangler -- Old time cowboy -- The cowboy -- The cowboy's life -- The dreary, dreary life -- The cowboys' Christmas ball -- A busted cowboy's christmas -- Windy Bill -- Bow-legged Ike -- Tying knots in the devil's tail -- High chin Bob -- Git along little dogies -- The old Chisholm Trail -- John Garner's trail herd -- the hills of Mexico -- Lone star trail -- The railroad corral -- I ride an old paint -- Goodbye, Old Paint -- Night-herding song -- If your saddle is good and tight -- Chopo -- The gal I left behind me -- The rambling cowboy -- The trail to Mexico -- brown-eyed Lee -- Sky ball paint -- Speckles -- Bucking bronco -- The zebra dun -- A border affair --
The campfire has gone out -- The Wyoming nester -- The old cowboy -- The range of the buffalo -- The buffalo hunters -- Cowboy reverie -- The invasion song -- Home, sweet home -- The dying cowboy -- Little Joe, the wrangler -- The cowboy's lament -- The cowboy's dream -- Charlie Rutledge -- When work is done this fall -- I've got no use for the women -- Utah Carroll -- Only a cowboy -- Blood on the saddle -- The Kansas emigrant -- Western home -- Home on the range -- Immigration song -- The old bachelor -- Kansas jayhawker -- Kansas boys -- In Kansas -- Starving to death on a government claim -- Nebraska land -- Kansas land -- The little old sod shanty on the claim -- Answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim -- Little adobe casa -- The Kansas farmer's lament -- Comin' back to Kansas -- But the mortgage worked the hardest -- The Kansas fool -- Dear prairie home -- There comes a reckoning day -- Come, all ye toiling millions -- The hayseed -- The farmer -- Vote for me -- Harvest land -- The Swede from North Dakota -- Ta-ra-ra boom dee-ay -- Overalls and snuff -- The harvest war song -- Tom Joad -- Pastures of plenty -- Fifty thousand lumberjacks -- The frozen logger -- The tragedy of sunset land -- Them days is gone forever -- A dollar a day without board -- The San Francisco rag-picker -- Ship out -- The suckers sadly gather -- It's a long way down to the soup line -- Go to sea no more -- The ballad of Bloody Thursday -- Hallelujah, on the bum -- The bum on the stem -- The great American bum -- The Big Rock Candy Mountains -- Hard travelin' -- The dying hobo -- The hobo's last ride -- Oh, you Wobblies -- The preacher and the slave -- When you wear that button -- Scissor Bill -- We're bound for San Diego -- Harry Orchard -- Joe Hillstrom -- The old settler -- Great-grand-dad -- The days of '49 -- The good old days of '50, '1, and '2 -- This is the place -- The little old sod shanty in the west -- When I was a cowboy -- Do re mi.
Subject West (U.S.) -- Songs and music.
Folk songs, English -- West (U.S.)
Folk songs, English.
Folk music -- West (U.S.)
Folk music.
Genre/Form Folk music.
Folk music.
Notated music.
Notated music.
Songs.
Songs.
Music.
Music.
Added Author Lingenfelter, Richard E.
Dwyer, Richard A.
Cohen, David, 1942 April 26-