( 1893 - Written by D. J. O'Malley as a Poem .. Collected by John Lomax 1910 in \"Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads\").
1st. Recorded 1925 by Carl T. Sprague (Sold Over 900,000 Copies).
Recorded 1930 by Bradley Kincaid.
Issued on Continental 8065 B.
Also Recorded 1973
Recorded Circa 1951 New York City - Slim Clark (gt/vcl solo).
Born Raymond LeRoy Clark in Springfield MASS (1917 - 2000)
Slim and Kenny Roberts were at one time jointly members of the Red River Ranges and used to try to out-yodel each other.......Slim won the World Yodeling Championship in 1947 and was inducted into the Yodeler's Hall of Fame, along with Jimmie Rodgers, Elton Britt, and Wilf Carter. He was a member of the Western Music Association's Hall of Fame and the Rhode Island Country Music Hall of Fame and Received The Pioneer Award Downeast CMA.
Also 1980 Maine CMA Hall of Fame
1989 Massachusetts CMA Hall of Fame
1996 Walkway of Stars Nashville, TN
2000 Cowboy Hall of Fame (posthumous)