Some have attributed the song to
Romaine Lowdermilk (1890–1970) instead of Cheetham. Shortly before Lowdermilk died, he wrote, "I sang
Blood on the Saddle for the first time anywhere at Castle Hot Springs where Everett Cheetham was working and singing. Everett went to Hollywood and asked me to give him the song as he could get a part in some show or other (movie) and I gave it to him and he gave me a good one called ''Jose Cuervo's Daughter'' in exchange. ... In the picture he worked in they attributed the 'Blood' song to Cheetham which was all right with me, but the company copyrighted it, attributed it to Tex Ritter who still sings it after a fashion." According to Fowke, the song's origin "has never been definitely settled. ... [I]t is not a modern song, for Dr. E. A. Corbett remembers a cowboy called Oklahoma Pete singing it on the Cochrane Ranch west of Calgary back in 1905." ==References==