Pioneer Stage Driver, The

DESCRIPTION: "I'm going to tell a story, and I'll tell it in my song... It's about one of the old boys, so gallas (sic.) and so fine, He used to carry mails on the pioneer line." Four horsemen rob him of the Wells Fargo cash box. The singer sympathizes
AUTHOR: Charley Roades (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1865 (broadside cited by Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: travel work money theft
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 53, "The Pioneer Stage Driver" (1 text)
File: LDC053

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography