John Garner's Cattle Herd

DESCRIPTION: "Come, all you old-timers, and listen to my song... When we with old Joe Garner drove a beef herd up the trail." They had 2000 cattle and good cowboys, but the cows stampede and they are told they must bear the loss. The singer calls Garner a cattle thief
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys)
KEYWORDS: cowboy theft hardtimes trick
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 84-86, "John Garner's Cattle Herd" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 370-371, "John Garner's Trail Herd" (1 text)
Roud #4036
NOTES [7 words]: This is item dB29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
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