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John lomax7/12/2023 He graduated from Granbury College at the age of 22, taught in rural schools for a few years, and then entered the University of Texas in 1895, where his interest in cowboy songs was scoffed at as unworthy. ![]() He was also exposed in his youth to African American songs through his boyhood friend Nat Blythe, who worked for the Lomax family. From these early experiences his life’s work of capturing the lyrics and music of American folklore began. The Chisholm Trail was nearby, and John grew up listening to cowboys sing their soothing songs to the herds and croon other frontier ballads. When he was two, his family resettled on the Texas frontier in rural Bosque County just north of the town of Meridian. ![]() Lomax (1867 - 1948) was born in Mississippi. Photo courtesy of Simone Voss of Southern Cross Creative.
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