The recording of "Oh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" by Hale listed in The Traditional Ballad Index shows up on the Victor Orthophonic list as performed by "Hale Derry Jr." Victor 20796, flip side Dying Hobo. 1927. I can find no further information, but I presume that it was copyright by Victor at that time.

The absence of the song prior to the Hale recording in any of the collections or studies of western song prior to the publication of the article, "Cowboy Ballads" by Myra Hull in the Kansas Historical Quarterly,1939, supports Lighter's contention that the song may not have existed prior to the 1927 date.

I cannot find any evidence of a re-issue of the Hale recording, either under the name Travis Hale or Hale Derry Jr.