Cowboy Lore, by Jules Verne Allen, Naylor Printing Com-
pany, San Antonio (1933), takes up the "life of the cowboy,"
"cattle brands," "cowboy dictionary," and "songs of the range."
There is considerable overlapping of the first and third chapters,
and little fresh material in the section on brands. Almost two-
thirds of the book is given over to songs, wherein, it seems, Mr.
Allen has won more fame as a singer than a writer. He has in-
cluded the music of some thirty-seven of the old range favorites,
and herein lies the chief value of the book. It is illustrated with
appropriate head-pieces by Ralph J. Pereida,

Two items of Western Americana, apparently hithereto un-
catalogued are: J. Allen Hosmer, A Trip to the States by the
Way of the Yellowstone and Missouri, Virginia City, Mon. Ter.,
Beaver Head News Print, 1867, pp. ii, 94; and by Sam New-
comb, A Journal of a Trip from Clear Fork in Stephens County
to the San Saba River, 1864, Albany, Texas, 1892, pp. not num-
bered, 19, printed as manuscript.

J. Evetts Haley.