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Cowboy Dances: A Collection of Western Square Dances
Cowboy Dances A Collection of Western Square Dances Author:Shaw, Lloyd The Cowboy Dance is the true folk dance of the last American Frontier. To the cattle range and to the mining camp of the West adventurers and fortune hunters came from every state of the Union, and brought with them the dances of their own section. The range became a free and open melting pot of American folkways. Some of these dances survived, ... more »some were modified, some were simplified. Many old dances were lost because they would not meet the democratic and simple conditions of the West. What survived may be considered the closest approach to a true American dance.« less