Excerpt from Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp Camp, my friend John Lomax has performed a real service to American literature and to America. No verse is closer to the soil than this; ne more realistic in the best sense of that much-abused word; ne more truly interprets and expresses a part of our national life. To understand and appreciate these lyrics one should hear Mr: Lomax talk about them and sing them; for they were made for the voice to prounce and for the cars to hear, rather than for the lamplit silence of the library. They are as oral as the chants of Vachel Lindsay; and when one has the pleasure of listening to Mr. Lomax -who loves these verses and the men who first sang them - one reconstructs in imagination the appropriate figures and romantic setting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.