"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
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“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
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