Hello Les B., this song is quite wonderful. I've enjoyed singing it for many years. By the way, I see that I misspelled Bannack! When I get more time today, I'll submitt the background notes as written in "American Murder Ballads." By the way, I can remember hearing this melody played in an olde black and white western movie. You know, just after the wagons are circled for the night and the bonfire is lit, out comes the instruments and you hear this melody. More later, CHEERS, Bob Nelson