Streets of Laredo (song): Difference between revisions

The old-time cowboy [[Frank H. Maynard]] (1853–1926) of [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]], claimed authorship of his self -published song in 1911 "The Dying Cowboy". Cowboys up and down the trail revised ''The Cowboy's Lament,'' and in his memoir, Maynard alleged that cowboys from Texas changed the title to "The Streets of Laredo" after he claimed authorship of the song in a 1924 interview with journalism professor [[Elmo Scott Watson]], then on the faculty of the [[University of Illinois]] at [[Urbana, Illinois|Urbana-Champaign]].<ref>{{Citation | first = Frank H | last = Maynard | title = Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range (edited by Jim Hoy) | place = [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock, TX]] | publisher = [[Texas Tech University Press]] | year = 2010 | pages = 134–35 | isbn = 978-0-89672-705-2}}.</ref>