Frank H. Maynard

Francis Henry Maynard, known as Frank H. Maynard , was an oldtime cowboy of the American West who claimed authorship of the revised version of the wellknown ballad The Streets of Laredo. After a decade of roaming the West, Maynard settled down with his wife, the former Flora V. Longstreth , to work as a highly successful carpenter and building contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Yet, his interest remained in reminiscences of his time as a cowboy and the desire to tell his special story for posterity.

Maynard was born in Iowa City in Johnson County in eastern Iowa, the second of five children of Horace Maynard , no relation to a Tennessee politician of the same name, and Georgiana Maynard . At the age of sixteen, Maynard left home to look for adventure, first along the Platte River. He lived for a time in Towanda in Butler County, Kansas, with a widowed maternal aunt. The other Maynard family members soon moved to Butler County, and for a time young Maynard and his father hauled freight from Emporia to Wichita, Kansas. In 1870, Maynard went on his first buffalo hunt in Kingman County, Kansas.

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