Porter Rockwell

DESCRIPTION: "Have you heard of Porter Rockwell? He's the Mormon Trigger-right. They say he hunts for horse thieves When then the moon is shining bright. So if you steal a Mormon cow... Get the drop on Porter Rockwell Before he gets the drop on you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah)
KEYWORDS: crime punishment theft
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1878 - Death of Orrin Porter Rockwell
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #229, "Porter Rockwell" (1 short text)
Cheney-MormonSongs, p. 191, "Porter Rockwell" (1 short text)
Roud #10879
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Port Rockwell" (subject of Orrin Porter Rockwell)
NOTES [60 words]: For background on Orrin Porter Rockwell, a Mormon fanatic in just about every sense possible, see the notes to "Old Port Rockwell." Cheney-MormonSongs says that his version is from Nicholas Van Alfen, Porter Rockwell, The Mormon Frontier Marshall, p. 157 -- but the earliest date I've found for that book is 1964, so Hubbard's version appears to predate it. - RBW
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File: Hubb229

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