Lost Indian

Unlike the other versions of Lost Indian, this' comes from Henry Cunningham who also added some lonesome howling. Mack Cummings calls this tune "Off to Omaha"

Marion Thede's Fiddle Book page 31 by Max Collins

Unitarian Fellowship Hall, February 27

(Cecil & John Snow - Old Time Fiddlin' And Pickin')

The Milliner-Koken book lists all cross tunes in the key of A (AEAE) despite what cross tuned pitch the fiddler may have been using

Field Recording by Bruce Greene

For years I have requested individual fiddlers to play "The Lost Indian." I have never heard the same tune twice, which might indicate that several Indians got lost. Adam, Ford, and Thede each published a different "Lost Indian." The version given here is merely to add to the list, and is not offered as the authentic tune. It would be most difficult to identify and validate any tune as being the original "Lost Indian." Various modern fiddlers will play "The Lonesome Indian" (as taken from a commercial recording of the early '950s) when requested to play "The Lost Indian." A tune, "Step to the Music Johnny" in Ford's book, is similar to this version. Played by Zeke Holdren