[Transcriber's notes:
-Page vii: The word following "view of what Owen" was unclear, and may not be the "Writes" which has been chosen.

We've made every effort to match the original, except for the following formatting changes and corrections:
1. The music system layout in these pieces is sometimes odd (e.g. bars broken off in the middle), so the system layout has been normalized where necessary.
2. Text in small-caps could not be reproduced -- all-caps has been used instead.
3. Obvious musical errors in the original have been corrected, as follows:
Days of Forty-Nine: bar 9, beat 3, piano left hand - corrected quarter note to dotted quarter note; bar 11, beat 1, piano left hand - corrected bottom note from F to G.
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo: bar 6, beat 4, piano right hand - corrected next-to-last chord from A-B-D (which sounds very wrong) to F-G-D (to match chord in bar 9, beat 4); in lyrics, corrected "Its" to "It's" in bar 15.
Little Joe, The Wrangler: repeat barline moved to correct place at end.
Prisoner for Life: third to last bar, piano left hand, bottom note corrected from C to B.
The Dying Ranger: in bar 4, voice part, corrected dotted quarter to dotted eighth.
Fuller and Warren: in bar 14, piano right hand, the D-sharp in the last chord was corrected to D-natural.]

COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS

What keeps the herd from running,
Stampeding far and wide?
The cowboy's long, low whistle,
And singing by their side.

COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS

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