Old cowboy Del Bray (possibly Dave Bray) surely did sing:

Near Medicine Bow where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin',
Made all the boys ride saddle sore,
And her name was Barbara Allen...

Did he put it together. I have no idea.

We were in a bar in Cheyenne, Wyoming -- the summer of 1962. He saw my guitar case and we went across the street to a rather rundown hotel room we had taken for the night. (This was across from the train station as I remember it.) I was 20 years old, underage, but we bought a 6-pack and shared it back in the room. Then we swapped some songs. I asked Del if he knew any cowboy songs. He took my guitar and sang what I called "Cowboy's Barbara Allen." He sang it one time and I wrote down what I had heard. Quite some time later, I re-discovered that paper in my case---and I fleshed it out fom versions I knew before. Where this western version differed from the usual renditions, I had written these glaring differences down, but not the surrounding words.

The song wound up being at least 75% Del Bray, but I admit it had to be finished by me.

The song is in the DT. Recently, Joel Mabus, an old friend, recorded the song. Quite a few words were different from the way I generally did it. The verses about "Do you remember in yonder town...
You gave a toast to all the girls, but slighted Barbara Allen." Those verses were NOT in Del Bray's singing of it---so they are not in my version.

...and the "thorny briar" and the "rose" mingling on top of the grave's "marker rocks" --- This was because, on the plains of the American west, rocks were often piled on the graves to keep wolves from digging up the dead.

I'll be back later with some other songs.

Art Thieme