CLOSURE: Central Library will be closed Tuesday, July 21, through Saturday, July 25, while emergency repairs are made to the building’s cooling system. We expect to reopen Monday, July 27. Click for more details on holds, program schedules, and returns during the closure. 

Notice of Public Meeting: Kalamazoo Public Library Board of Trustees | July 27 | 5:30 pm | Central Library/Van Deusen Room. The packet of information for the meeting can be found on the library’s website

Songs of the American West

Call Number

  • R 784.4 L748 (CEN)

Browse similar titles by call number

Publication Information

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1968.

Physical Description

xii, 595 p. illus. 29 cm.

Notes

Unacc. melodies; includes chord symbols.

Contents

  • All are talking of Utah
  • Answer to the answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • Answer to the little old sod shanty on the claim
  • Apex Boarding House
  • Arrival of the greenhorn
  • Ballad of blood Thursday
  • Belmont Stopes
  • Big Rock candy mountains, I
  • Big Rock candy mountains, II
  • Bill Peters, the stage driver
  • Billy the kid
  • Bisbee's queen
  • Bishop Zack, the Mormon engineer
  • Blood on the saddle
  • Boggy Creek
  • Border affair
  • Bow-legged Ike
  • Boys of Sanpete County
  • Brigham Young
  • Broken-hearter leaser
  • Brown-eyed Lee
  • Bucking bronco
  • Buffalo skinners
  • Bull-whacker
  • Bum on the stem
  • Bury me out on the prairie
  • Busted cowboy's Christmas
  • But the mortgage worked the hardest.
  • (Con't.) California as it is
  • California Ball
  • California bloomer
  • California Joe
  • California stage company
  • Campfire has gone out
  • Captain of the cowboys
  • Casey Jones, the miner
  • Casey Jones, the union scab
  • Charlie Rutledge
  • Cherry Creek emigrant's song
  • Chopo
  • Church without a prophet
  • Cohabs
  • Cole Younger
  • Colorado home
  • Come, all ye toiling millions
  • Come, come, ye saints
  • Comin' back to Kansas
  • Coming around the horn
  • Copper strike of '17
  • Cousin Jack
  • Cowboy
  • Cowboy reverie
  • Cowboys' Christmas ball
  • Cowboy's dream
  • Cowboy's lament
  • Cowboy's life
  • Crossing the Plains
  • Custer's last charge
  • Days of '49
  • Dear prairie home
  • Deseret
  • Desert route
  • Disheartened ranger
  • Do re mi
  • Dollar a day without board
  • Dreary black hills
  • Dreary, dreary life
  • Drill, ye miners, drill!
  • (Con't.) Dry-landers
  • Dying Californian
  • Dying cowboy
  • Dying hobo
  • Dying ranger
  • Early life in Dixie
  • Early this Spring we'll leave Nauvoo
  • Echo Canyon
  • Emigrant from Pike
  • Experience
  • Fair lady of the Plains
  • Farmer
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, I
  • Fifty thousand lumberjacks, II
  • Fools of '49
  • Freighting from Wilcox to Globe
  • Frozen logger
  • Gal I left behind me
  • Get out, yellow-skins, get out!
  • Git along, little dogies
  • Go to sea no more
  • Gold digger's lament
  • Good old days of '50, '1, and '2
  • Goodbye, Old Paint
  • Great American bum
  • Great-Grand-Dad
  • Hallelujah, on the bum
  • Handcarts, I
  • Handcarts, II
  • Handcarts, III
  • Happy miner
  • Hard travelin'
  • Harry Orchard
  • Harvest land
  • Harvest war song
  • Hay sing, come from China
  • Hayseed
  • Hell in Texas
  • High chin Bob
  • Hills of Mexico
  • Hit at the times
  • Ho! for California!
  • Hobo's last ride
  • Home manufactures
  • Home on the range.
  • (Con't.) Home, sweet home
  • Honest miner
  • Horse wrangler
  • Humbug steamship companies
  • Hunting after gold
  • I once was a carman in the big mountain con
  • I ride an Old Paint
  • I wandered today up the hill, Maggie
  • I want to be a cowboy
  • I want to make the riffle
  • Idaho
  • If your saddle is good and tight
  • I'm off for California
  • Immigration song
  • In 1864
  • In Kansas
  • In the hive of Deseret
  • In the midst of these awful Mormons
  • In the summer of Sixty
  • Indian ghost dance and war
  • Invasion song
  • Iron horse
  • It's a long, long way to capture villa
  • It's a long way down to the soup line
  • I've got not use for the women
  • Joaquin the horse-thief
  • Joe Bowers
  • Joe Hillstrom
  • John Chinaman
  • John Chinaman, my Jo
  • John Chinaman's appeal
  • John Chinaman's marriage
  • John Garner's trail herd
  • Johnny's dead
  • Jolly Vaquero
  • Josh, John
  • Just from Dawson.
  • (Con't.) Kansas boys
  • Kansas emigrant
  • Kansas farmer's lament
  • Kansas fool
  • Kansas jayhawker
  • Kansas land, I
  • Kansas land,II
  • Lane County bachelor
  • Little adobe casa
  • Little Joe, the wrangler
  • Little old sod shanty in the West
  • Little old sod shanty on the claim, I
  • Little old sod shanty on the claim, II
  • Lone star trail
  • Long John, chineeman
  • Lousy miner
  • Merry mormons
  • Miner
  • Miners' meeting
  • Mormon battalion
  • Mormon bishop's lament
  • Mormon car
  • Mormon creed
  • Mormon du dah song
  • Mormon king
  • Mormon love serenade
  • Mormon question
  • Mormons in the mountains
  • Mountain meadows massacre
  • Mustang gray
  • My wife has become a Mormonite
  • Nebraska land
  • Night-herding song
  • O if I was at home again
  • Oh, California
  • Oh, you wobblies!
  • Old Arizona again
  • Old bachelor
  • Old Chisholm Trail
  • Old cowboy
  • Old settler
  • Old time cowboy.
  • (Con't.) Once I lived in Cottonwood
  • Only a cowboy
  • Only a miner killed in the breast
  • Our leaky tents
  • Overalls and snuff
  • Overland stage driver
  • Pastures of plenty
  • Peninsula Pike
  • Peter Orman
  • Pioneer stage driver
  • Plantonio, the pride of the Plains
  • Portland County jail
  • Preacher and the slave
  • Pretty Boy Floyd
  • Prospecting dream
  • Quantrell
  • Railroad cars are coming
  • Railroad corral
  • Rambling cowboy
  • Range of the buffalo
  • Regular Army, O!
  • Ride of Paul Venarez
  • Ripping trip
  • Rolling stone
  • Rustling song
  • Sacramento
  • St. George
  • Sam Bass
  • San Francisco rag-picker
  • San Juan
  • Scabby Cousin Jack
  • Scab's lament
  • Scissor Bill
  • Sea gulls and crickets
  • Seeing the elephant
  • Seven devil mines
  • Ship out
  • Since the Chinese ruint the thrade.
  • (Con't.) Sioux Indians
  • Sky ball paint
  • Solidarity forever
  • Sonora filbusters
  • Speckles
  • Stand by your union
  • Starving to death on a government claim
  • Strike breaker's lament
  • Subsidy: a Goat Island ballad
  • Suckers sadly gather
  • Swede from North Dakota
  • Sweet Betsey from Pike
  • Ta-ra-ra boom dee-ay
  • Texas cowboy
  • Texas rangers
  • Them days is gone forever
  • There comes a reckoning day
  • There is a people in the West
  • There is no work in the Army
  • They cry "Deluded Mormons"
  • This is the place
  • Titter-irie-aye
  • To the West
  • To the West: a parody
  • Tom Joad
  • Tragedy of Sunset Land
  • Trail to Mexico
  • Trip to Rapid River
  • Trip to Salmon
  • Twelve hundred more
  • Tying knots in the devil's tail
  • Uncle Sam and the Mormons
  • Upper California
  • Utah carroll
  • Wandering laborer's song.
  • (Con't.) Way out in Idaho
  • Way they emigrate
  • We came to Tanichi
  • We're bound for San Diego
  • Western home
  • Westward ho
  • What was your name in the States?
  • When I was a cowboy
  • When I was a miner, a hard-rock miner
  • When I went off to prospect
  • When we go marching home
  • When work is done this Fall
  • When you wear that button
  • Windy Bill
  • Wish I was a Mormonite
  • Wyoming Nester
  • Yellowstone flat
  • Zebra Dun.