Francis Henry Maynard's song "The Dying Cowboy" whose opening lyrics
began at the door of one of Dodge City's rowdiest saloons. and not the dusty streets of Laredo. This makes his song undoubtedly the earliest printed published version in 1911. Who in 1924 claimed to be the author of one of the most famous old time cowboy folk songs in America's history "The Streets of Laredo" written the way he wanted it written, and clearly not what was written and published by Jack Thorp (1908) and John Lomax (1910).Both were distinguished by calling the man a dying cowboy not a ranger, and both titled the song "The Cowboy's Lament" not "The Dying Cowboy", and he started his song opening with "As I rode by Tom Sherman's bar-room."