Did you know that an Iowa born cowboy Frank Maynard, who moved to Kansas when he was just 16, is the author of the famed Western song, “The Cowboy’s Lament,” best known today as “The Streets of Laredo.” In Frank Maynard’s Cowboy’s Lament: A Life on the Open Range (Texas Tech University Press), edited from Maynard’s unpublished manuscript, Kansas historian and folklorist Jim Hoy unveils the Irish origin of the famed song to Maynard’s reworking of the song in 1876 into the cowboy
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