Rick, yer wrong. Sorry. By "Thorpian slip" I meant an allusion to cowboy material since the first book of cowboy songs ever isasued in the U.S. was put out in 1908 by N. Howard "JACK" THORP. That was 2 whole years before John Lomax's book of cowboy songs came out. Thorp's book is still available in paperback from Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press at Lincoln, Nebraska) Another pretty good book by Jack Thorp (as told to NeilMcCullough Clark) was PARDNER OF THE WIND. I think I saw that was also a Bison Book now. It was from Pardner Of The Wind that I got the some of what became the tale I called the "GREAT TURTLE DRIVE".

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