At a ceremony to place a marker on the great western trail located at the Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, Texas, Violinist James Streit played "Oh, Bury me not on the lone Prairie." Local legend has it that this version of the song originated at Doans Crossing by a friend of a dying cowboy, who they buried north of doans crossing. The legend goes that the dying cowboy begged his friend not to bury him in this desolate place, but conditions at that time didn't allow the Cowboys to transport a body on a cattle drive. They had no choice but to bury him there. His dying words haunted the friend his whole life, and in later years, wrote the ballad.