Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Lomax
Language: English
Year: 1929

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore.  Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive.  "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" is his collection that propelled him to the forefront of his field and ignited new interest in American folklore, inspiring many to continue research. For his contributions to the field of cowboy music, Locas was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame