Sandy, Nope, I've not seen that cassette, ever. I'd be in line to buy a copy too--fer sure.

So I've got to come out and admit that I've done the same thing with those isolated verses from Mary Wheeler's collected songs. Check out my version of "What Does The Deep Sea Say". Most of the verses I sang in that one were from Ms. Wheeler. She WAS there, as you say. And her instincts were certainly in the right place. And on the new CD I included "Is Your Lamps Gone Out" which is in _Steamboatin' Days_ too. Did that tune come from Dillon B.? I don't know where I found it. The performance on my CD at the U. of Chicago Folk Fest was one of 2 times I ever sang the song. Tuning into "open G" was more than I wanted to deal with usually. But the U. of Chi always felt like home to me.

It's like Jack Thorp's 1908 thin book of cowboy songs--several of which were written by Jack. As a working cowboy himself, he had all the credentials to do it right. And his little book set the stage for John Lomax's __COWBOY SONGS__ 2 years later in 1910--the one with the introduction by Teddy Roosevelt. Both sure were wonderful in their own way.

Jack Thorp's __SONGS OF THE COWBOYS__is still available with a foreward by Guy Logsden. It's a BISON BOOK, a wonderful series of books of Western history & first-hand accounts. Comes from the University of Nebraska Press at Lincoln.

(Thorp's __Pardner Of The Wind__, is where I first found __THE GREAT TURTLE DRIVE__ which I altered a bit by mentioning a land terrapin named "STUDS TURTLE".--It's a wonderful story...)

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