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"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
The Unfortunate Rake" is a ballad (Roud 2, Laws Q26), [1] which through the folk process has evolved into a large number of variants, including allegedly the country and western song "Streets of Laredo". [2]
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent.It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).
A number of different variants use the same melody, including the sub-family known as "The Cowboy's Lament", of which "Streets of Laredo" is perhaps currently the best known. This tune is also used for a different song, "The Bard of Armagh". The nineteenth century broadsheet versions from the British Isles were printed without tunes.
He was also featured in Texas writer Larry McMurtry’s The Streets of Laredo in 1993. More than a century after Hardin’s death, he still draws fascination over a life as a gunman that left more ...
Streets of Laredo may refer to: "Streets of Laredo" (song), a folk music standard; Streets of Laredo, a western novel by Larry McMurtry; The Streets of Laredo, unfinished 1948 western film directed by Ed Wood (completed and released posthumously as Crossroads of Laredo in 1995) Streets of Laredo, a 1949 western starring William Holden
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