Let's not forget Ken Maynard the first singing cowboy in Hollywood chose to open his version with I come out of Austin's fair city instead of "As I rode down by Tom Sherman's bar-room" Austin was were cattle herds started north towards Tom Sherman's barr-room which was the terminus for cattle that left Texas moving into Indian territory up the western trail. Ken Maynard is the only recorded cowboy, I repeat the only, to actually put the cowboy's in the actual vicinities of were Francis Henry Maynard wrote The Dying Cowboy while wintering cattle over the border from Texas just south of medicine lodge.