In the Summer of Sixty

DESCRIPTION: "In the summer of sixty as you very well know The excitements at Pike's Peak was then all the go." The singer buys a ranch, but a miner jumps his claim. He gets into a crooked card game, loses all his money, and flees the area
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1915 (Pound)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes gold poverty gambling cards
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Pound-AmericanBalladsAndSongs, 89, pp. 189-190, "In the Summer of Sixty" (1 text)
Welsch-NebraskaPioneerLore, pp. 7-8, "In the Summer of '60" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 116-117, "In the Summer of Sixty" (1 text)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 590-591, "In the Summer of Sixty" (1 text)
Roud #4978
File: LPnd189

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