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Elmo Scott Watson
Elmo Scott Watson (1892–May 6, 1951) was an American journalist and college professor, whose longest educational stint was at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was particularly known for his emphasis on the American West, having been a reporter for the "Gazette and Telegraph" newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado, before he entered the field of higher education.
Biography.
Biography Early years and education.
Watson was born on a farm near Colfax in McLean County in the Bloomington metropolitan area of
Elmo Scott Watson, who offered him advice not unlike that of Jack London in putting Maynard's ideas on paper.
In 1923, while attending the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Maynard met the Illinois journalist Elmo Scott Watson, a former reporter for the Colorado Springs "Gazette and Telegraph." Watson learned that Maynard claimed credit for having revised the composition of "Cowboy's' Lament", a western poem and song better known as "Streets of Laredo". Maynard was working as a nightwatchman at