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In 1870, sixteen-year-old Frank Maynard left his home in Iowa and arrived in Towanda, Kansas, where he soon took a job helping to trail a small herd of cattle from Missouri to Colorado. Thus began his adventures as an open-range cowboy, a ten-year career that coincided with the peak of the great trail-drive era. Among the highlights of Maynards time on the range were brushes with outlaws and encounters with famous lawmen, such as Bill Tilghman and Bat and Ed Masterson (he was in Dodge City when Ed was shot). On one drive Maynard was set upon and chased by irate German homesteaders; on another he narrowly escaped being killed by a man known as Slusher while driving horses from Kansas to Texas. But Maynards most enduring contribution sprang from overhearing a version of an old Irish ballad in 1876 and reworking it as The Cowboys Lament, the standard most recognize today as The Streets of Laredo. His role in adapting the song and his other colorful experiences on the trail have come to light with the recent discovery of his unpublished memoir. Now, alongside the frontier recollections of Charlie Siringo and Charles Colchord, Maynards personal account offers a rare and revealing glimps

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Author

Frank Maynard

Publisher

Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780896727052

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14