Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

John Lomax was given a travelling fellowship by Harvard University to discover and collect these verses, bringing together all of the best cowboy verse at the time by poets everywhere. Some of the cowboy poets include Arthur Chapman; Henry Herbert Knibbs; William Maxwell; Charles Badger Clark, Jr; Frank Desprez; James Barton Adams; Margaret Vandergrift; Baird Boyd; Herman Scheffauer; MacMahon; H.D.C. McLaclachlan; Lowell O. Reese; R.V. Carr; L. Worthington Green; C.F. Lummis; Pocock in "Curly;" Deveen; Burke Jenkins; Berton Braley; E.A. Brinninstool; J.C. Davis; Sherman D. Richardson; Margaret Ashmun; Charles Pitt; John A. Lomax; L.F. Post and Glenn Norton; Ethel MacDiarmid; James Fox; and many anonymous.