When Uncle Sam's Doughboy Roped a Wild Irish Rose

DESCRIPTION: An "Uncle Sam's Doughboy" goes to Ireland and pursues a "wild Irish rose" who "ran through the trees like a wild mountain deer." But now she "gets tamer each day" and is becoming willing to return to the West with him
AUTHOR: Rusty Holman (?)
EARLIEST DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: courting cowboy
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ohrlin-HellBoundTrain 79, "When Uncle Sam's Doughboy Roped a Wild Irish Rose" (1 text)
File: Ohr079

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