During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known--it was used pri...marily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is "the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy's pony."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the cry of "follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land," Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stamp...ede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white...-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »