This isn't going to directly answer the question, but I found a footnote in Chapter 1 of John I White's "Git Along Little Dogies, Songs and Songmakers of the American West" (University of Illinois Press, 1975) that cites a book by James J Fuld called "The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular and Folk (Crown Publishers, 1971). White's footnote says that the "interesting history" of "Oh Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" is documented in detail in Fuld's book. Anybody close to a big library?

rich r