Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs
- ISBN-10
- 0399239960
- ISBN-13
- 9780399239960
- Series
- Home on the Range
- Category
- Ethnomusicologists
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01
- Publisher
- Putnam Publishing Group
- Author
- Deborah Hopkinson
Description
As a child, John Avery Lomax loved the songs he heard the cowboys singing along the nearby Chisholm Trail. He began writing them down at an early age. As John grew older, he traveled the country collecting and recording cowboy songs, helping to preserve many favorites.
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