Buckskin Joe

DESCRIPTION: "'Twas a calm and peaceful evening in a camp called Arapahoe." There is music, drink, dancing. Hankey Dean, who hates losing at cards, grows enraged at a stranger. The stranger pins the 5 of spades to the wall and shoots out the spades. Dean shuts up
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys)
KEYWORDS: cowboy fight cards gambling
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 15-18, "Buckskin Joe" (1 text)
Roud #4949
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Zebra Dun" (theme of a tenderfoot who knows what he is doing)
File: ThLo015

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