Transcribed from the back of the 1964 LP album 'This Was the West'

Stan Jones and the Ranger Chorus

Stan Jones possibly knows more about the West than any other living man. He was born of pioneering parents in the border ton of Douglas, Arizona. He built his own cabin when he was sixteen. Between sessions at the University of California at Berkeley and a hitch in the Navy, Stan was a rodeo rider in twenty different outfits. He drove a snow plow for the Southern pacific. He was a logger in Washington, Canada, Oregon: placer miner on the North Fork of the American River, where he drove a string of pack mules; a cowboy in Northern Arizona and later in Northern California; and a ranger. He's been in every big National Forest and Park west of the Continental divide from Alaska to Mexico (where he learned Indian tracking). His ken of the West and his knack for writing songs are combined in this album, in which Stan draws on both his heritage and his won lifetime to write about the West that was.

The Songs

(Western Theme with Narration)
Narration by Thurl Ravenscroft

Sacajawea
Ol' Kit Carson
Jim Marshall's Nugget
Wagons West
Pony Express
Cowpoke
Buffalo
Indian Spirit Chant
Yellow Stripes
The Lilies Grow High
Coffin in the Cabin
Saddle Up
Stars of the West
Songs of the Dance Hall Girls
Rollin' Dust