I believe Ken Maynard's variation of F.H. Maynard's The Dying Cowboy Song of which a copy exists in The Rhymes of the Range and Trail which included the song written in 1876 is at Baylor University. Ken Maynard sings "My Friends and Relation they live in the Nation" is making references about this geographically location of 1876 cattle herder F. H. Maynard, watching over cattle grazing in various parts of Kansas, particularly near Medicine Lodge, and on down into Indian Territory. A herder working on the open range was also sometimes called a range rider, which likely explains Frank Maynard's use of the term "ranger' rather than cowboy in the verses of his song, which we now know he titled "The Dying Cowboy". Ken Maynard opens his song on the silver screen with not Tom Sherman's Barroom, but I come out of Austin's fair city? Large Ranchers from Austin (Jesse Driskill/ Seth W. Mabry). In 1876 Seth Mabry's success in the cattle business allowed him to construct a grand home in Austin near the Texas Governor's Mansion. Architect and builder Abner Hugh Cook, who built the Governor's Mansion, also built Maj. Seth W Mabry's house, who Frank Maynard was in close relation with on their large ranches that were established in the open-range country of Indian Territory (Nation) and Kansas (U.S.A.).