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Lighter DTStudy: The Dying Cowboy (25) RE: DTStudy: The Dying Cowboy 22 May 25

While Maynard was apparently responsible for *one* adaptation of "The Dying Girl's Lament," there's no way to know if he was truly the first to adapt the song family to the American West. Or that he wasn't.

I posted the earliest known text (1881) on this thread some years ago:

/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=14919#4203810

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