Harold W. Thompson (1891–1963) was Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University and the first president of the New York Folklore Society. Edith E. Cutting is the author of several collections of New York State folklore, including Lore of an Adirondack County, also from Cornell.

Consummate scholarship, simplicity of presentation, humane warmth, and quick insight are what we have learned to expect from Harold Thompson. The songster he and Edith Cutting have assembled here is not meant for singing, but for the study of song repertory of a bygone era.... As a document, A Pioneer Songster is a true pioneer.(Journal of American Folklore) This treasure is a remarkable collection of the songs the early settlers sang in western New York from about 1836 until just before the Civil War. The 89 songs in the manuscript provide much information about 'the Golden Age of Homespun.'... There is an excellent bibliography and a combined index of song titles and first lines of songs.(The Country Dancer)

Harold W. Thompson (1891–1963) was Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University and the first president of the New York Folklore Society. Edith E. Cutting is the author of several collections of New York State folklore, including Lore of an Adirondack County, also from Cornell.

Consummate scholarship, simplicity of presentation, humane warmth, and quick insight are what we have learned to expect from Harold Thompson. The songster he and Edith Cutting have assembled here is not meant for singing, but for the study of song repertory of a bygone era.... As a document, A Pioneer Songster is a true pioneer.(Journal of American Folklore) This treasure is a remarkable collection of the songs the early settlers sang in western New York from about 1836 until just before the Civil War. The 89 songs in the manuscript provide much information about 'the Golden Age of Homespun.'... There is an excellent bibliography and a combined index of song titles and first lines of songs.(The Country Dancer)

Harold W. Thompson (1891–1963) was Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University and the first president of the New York Folklore Society. Edith E. Cutting is the author of several collections of New York State folklore, including Lore of an Adirondack County, also from Cornell.

Consummate scholarship, simplicity of presentation, humane warmth, and quick insight are what we have learned to expect from Harold Thompson. The songster he and Edith Cutting have assembled here is not meant for singing, but for the study of song repertory of a bygone era.... As a document, A Pioneer Songster is a true pioneer.(Journal of American Folklore) This treasure is a remarkable collection of the songs the early settlers sang in western New York from about 1836 until just before the Civil War. The 89 songs in the manuscript provide much information about 'the Golden Age of Homespun.'... There is an excellent bibliography and a combined index of song titles and first lines of songs.(The Country Dancer)