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The first sound film shot at Lone Pine   was Universal Picture' The Wagon Master (1929). This Ken Maynard Production, coincidentally was the first sound B-Western to feature a singing cowboy. Ken Maynard sang 2 songs The Cowboy's Lament/The Lone Star Trail. John A Lomax from Austin Texas coincidentally documented "The Cowboys Lament" in his 1910 book of Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads. This song began at Sam Sherman's Barroom not the same song cowboy's changed into "The Streets of Laredo". Francis Henry Maynard with the same last name of Ken Maynard , sharing no family relations with Francis Henry Maynard who was a old time cowboy& poet, claims cowboy's from his outfit liked it. He claims he heard an Irish version of a girl gone bad which he penned as The Dying Cowboy in the winter of 1876. And like The Cowboy's Lament of John A Lomax started out in dodge city also, Francis Henry Maynard's started at Tom Sherman's Bar-Roo
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 My theory is Ken Maynard was able to successfully use the Tri-Ergon method. The agreement of all involved parties which included the removal of sound on disc method to synchronize sound. He became the first singing cowboy in Hollywood sept. 8, 1929. The sound version of The Wagon Master is still missing  The silent version of this film was in a vault until recently in Amsterdam.
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 The film classification code for the Sept. 8, 1929 release of The Wagon Master
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            The Famous Tower Theater with their debut of the Vitaphone sound on disc system. The Tower Theater ad offered up a list of Hollywood actors that the movie goers could come sit with. Oh look there "I spied a young cowboy" Ken Maynard.
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 Ken Maynard first singing cowboy on 8 monophonic celluloid sound master's in history. Only two songs were issued: The Cowboy's Lament/The Lone Star Trail Fannie Moore - 149830 The Cowboy's Lament - 149831 The Lone Star Trail - 149832 Betsy from Pike - 149833 Prisoner for Life - 149834 Roundup's Done - 149835 Jesse James - 149836 Home on the Range - 149837
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                      The Cowboy's Lament Lyric's By Ken Maynard I come out of Austin's fair city oh Austin's fair city Oh Austin's fair city 'twas early one day I spied a young cowboy a handsome young cowboy All dressed in white linin an cold as the clay I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy These words he did say as I boldly step by Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story For I'm shot in the breast and I know I must die Oh beat the drum slowly oh play the fife lowly Oh play the dead march as they carry me along carry me to the graveyard and pour the sod o'er me For I'm only a poor cowboy and I know I've done wrong My friends and relation they live in the Nation They know not where their boy has gone First came to Texas and hired to a ranchman Oh I'm only a poor cowboy and I know I've done wrong Someone write a letter to my grey headed mother And then to my sister my sister so dear But there's another more dear than mother
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 June 28th 1929                                                                           "The Wagon Master"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Bill Hollister organizes a wagon train to break the frightening                     monopoly acquired by Jake Lynch through unfair tactics. The high                     food prices charged as a result of Lynch's monopoly are threatening                      the life of the mining communities served.                                     The Rambler joins Hollister's outfit when it sets out for Gold                         Hill, a mining camp.       Lynch schemes to prevent Hollister's wagon-train                     from reaching its destination.          
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