The Lost Miners

The Lost Miners
From American Murder Ballads by Olive Woolley Burt. Believed to be about the murder and cannibalization of five prospectors by Alfred Packer

The story: Alfred Packer, Man-Eater.

The Lost Miners
(tune unknown)

Six miners went into the mountains
To hunt for precious gold;
It was the middle of winter,
The weather was dreadfully cold.
Six miners went into the mountains,
They had nor food nor shack -
Six miners went into the mountains,
But only one came back.