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"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is an American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America listed it as number four of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

Derived from the traditional folk song "The Unfortunate Rake", the song has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted numerous times, with many variations. The title refers to the city of Laredo, Texas.

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Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent. It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993). The series is set in the 1890s.

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The song does not appear in the series.
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