Ken Maynard

 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

                      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

 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.