Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

by Lomax, John A.

$263 · Offered by Biblio

New York: Macmillan, 1920. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 189pp. Foreword by William Lyon Phelps. Orange, black & yellow decorative binding with black lettering; publisher's tan & brown illustrated dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, more so to spine head; light scrape on spine). A nice copy of a scarce collection of cowboy verse. Lomax was given a travelling fellowship by Harvard University to discover and collect these verses, bringing together all of the best cowboy verse at the time by poets everywhere. Some of the cowboy poets include Arthur Chapman; Henry Herbert Knibbs; William Maxwell; Charles Badger Clark, Jr; Frank Desprez; James Barton Adams; Margaret Vandergrift; Baird Boyd; Herman Scheffauer; MacMahon; H.D.C. McLaclachlan; Lowell O. Reese; R.V. Carr; L. Worthington Green; C.F. Lummis; Pocock in "Curly;" Deveen; Burke Jenkins; Berton Braley; E.A. Brinninstool; J.C. Davis; Sherman D. Richardson; Margaret Ashmun; Charles Pitt; John A. Lomax; L.F. Post & Glenn Norton; Ethel MacDiarmid; James Fox; and many anonymous. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Year: 1920
• Edition: Second edition
• Binding: hardcover

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