Word: buckaroo
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos, of prisoners and pick & shovel men, of washerwomen, bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers of East Tennessee. It is a working class song straight from men on the job, uttered...