# Lasca — Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp character guide

> Lasca in Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John A. Lomax.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0012-lasca

## Snapshot

A tragic love in a famous narrative poem, the girl whose memory haunts a cowboy long after the range has moved on.

## Who they are

Lasca is the lost sweetheart of cowboy verse, a figure whose brief presence casts a long shadow over the speaker's later life. Her tension is the one between love and the trail, between a woman who waits and a man who rides away. She matters because her story gives the collection its emotional depth, a reminder that the cowboy's freedom is often paid for in grief.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/songs_of_the_cattle_trail_and_cow_camp_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_romantic_

Lasca is a passionate, tragic love from the narrator's past, evoking deep emotion and loss.

## In the story

### [Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/songs_of_the_cattle_trail_and_cow_camp_se/chapters/songs-of-the-cattle-trail-and-cow-camp)

Lasca is the central figure in a tragic love story, where her jealousy leads to a stabbing and her eventual death during a stampede.

### [Lasca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/songs_of_the_cattle_trail_and_cow_camp_se/chapters/lasca)

The narrator's passionate and devoted lover; she stabs him in jealousy and later sacrifices herself to save him during a stampede.

### [A Cowboy Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/songs_of_the_cattle_trail_and_cow_camp_se/chapters/a-cowboy-song)

Addressed as 'Señorita' and 'Lolita', the object of the cowboy's affection.

## Links

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