Frontier Ballads

A Collection of Traditional Western Songs
with Lyrics & Illustrations

By JOSEPH MILLS HANSON
With Pictures in Color and Other Drawings by Maynard Dixon

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This book contains a collection of western and frontier ballads & songs also with illustrations. I have had to rearrange the pages a bit and have put the full page illustrations right at the beginning of the book instead of being dispersed among the rest of the pages as in the original. I would also like apologise for the odd errors and weirdness you will find in my web version of this book. The vagaries of scanning and OCRing, plus trying to retain as much as possible of the original format, and have it display in a variety of browsers makes it hard to make a decent job without spending forever on it. However, I hope you find what is here useful despite the few problems. Rod Feb. 2007

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Traditional Frontier Ballads & Western Songs - Contents list

Front Cover - 0001
Inside Front Cover - 0002
Illustrations - 0003
Illustrations - 0004
Illustrations - 0005
Illustrations - 0006
Illustrations - 0007
Illustrations - 0008
Publication Info - 0010
Table of Contents - 0110
My Creed - 0111
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Dakota Militia - 0115
Page - 0116
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The Girl of the Yankton Stockade - 0118
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The Ballad of Sergeant Ross - 0121
Page - 0122
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The Springfield Calibre Fifty - 0125
Page - 0126
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A Garrison Christmas - 0128
Page - 0129
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Troop Horses - 0131
Page - 0132
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A Khaki Kick - 0135
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Sergeant Noonan Explains - 0138
Page - 0139
Laramie Trail - 0140
Page - 0141
The Call of the Wind - 0145
The Fur Traders - 0146
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Cowboy Song - 0152
Page - 0153
Christmas Eve at Kimball - 0154
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A Lament - 0158
Page - 0159
Jesus Garcia - 0160
Page - 0161
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A Christmas Letter - 0166
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The Coyoteville Peace Meeting - 0169
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The Song of the Winchester - 0171
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Prairie Fire - 0173
Page - 0174
The Missouri - 0177
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The Old Carry - 0181
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Jake Dale - 0183
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The Engineer of the "Golden Hind" - 0187
Page - 0188
The "Pauline" - 0189
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Afterglow - 0192