"Boggus Creek"
Another early variant called "Boggus Creek", collected by W.P. Webb, was first published in 1923. Webb considered it a variant to "The Buffalo Skinners" In "Boggus Creek" a group of cowboys are hired at the now abandoned cowtown at Fort Griffin, Texas, to work cattle in New Mexico:
- As I rode in the town of Fort Griffin in the spring of '83
- An old Texas cowman came riding up to me,
- Saying, "how do you do, young fellow, and how would you line to go
- And spend one summer season in the hills of Mexico?"
In this variant, no one is killed but the song ends the same way, except instead of warning others about the "range of the buffalo" it says:
- Go home to wives and sweethearts, tell other not to go
- To the god-forsaken country of old New Mexico.
Read more about this topic: On The Trail Of The Buffalo
Famous quotes containing the word creek:
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)