Deckman - funny you should mention Burt's book and "The Star of Bannack" - I sort of learned that song a few years ago and then put it on the back burner.

I've been meaning to resurrect it. Our little group sometimes plays at Bannack's Heritage days in the summer, and I've had intentions of doing that song there. We usually play on a porch across from the saloon where she may have been shot. I've even looked in the Bannack cemetery but couldn't find any markers matching the girl's name in the book. I'm also not sure just how old that song really is - it may have been generated in the 1930's? (But it's a good song, anyway).