Bow-Legged Ike

DESCRIPTION: "Bow-legged Ike on horseback was sent From some place, straight down on this broad continent." He's been riding all his life. A man bets Ike can't ride his sorrel. Ike rides it with ease while rolling a cigarette. He wishes for an "interesting" horse
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1899 (Doubleday, Cattle Ranch to College, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: cowboy horse gambling talltale
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 356-357, "Bow-Legged Ike" (1 text)
Roud #11310
File: LDC356

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