George Botsford

• Illustration — The cover of Botsford's "In Dear Old Arizona", published in 1906. • "The Katy Flyer" (1899) • "Dance of the Water Nymphs" (1906) • "In Dear Old Arizona" (1906) • "Pride of the Prairie" (1907) • "The Big Jubilee" (1908) • "Klondike Rag" (1908) • "Black and White Rag" (1908) • "Old Crow Rag" (1909) • "Wiggle Rag" (1909) • "Texas Steer Rag" (1909) • "Pianophiends Rag" (1909) • "Chatterbox Rag" (1910) • "Lovey-Dovey Rag" (1910) • "Grizzly Bear Rag" (1910) • "Honeysuckle Rag" (1911) • "Honey Girl" (1911) • "Hyacinth" (1911) • "Royal Flush" (1911) • "Eskimo Rag" (1912) • "Buck-Eye Rag" (1913) • "Incandescent Rag" (1913) • "Universal Rag" (1913) • "Rag, Baby Mine" (1913) • "Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay" (1913) • "Boomerang Rag" (1916) • "On the Old Dominion Line" (1916)

• Illustration — A 1912 political cartoon about the Republican Party Presidential conflict between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt referencing the "Grizzly Bear" dance "Pride of the Prairie" is a prime example of Tin Pan Alley's response to the rising popularity of cowboy music. Many western-themed songs were being released by New York ragtime composers at the time, but Prairie would become a part of the era's folk music catalogue, eventually being recorded by numerous country and folk acts including Aaron Campbell's Mountaineers, Tex Owens, and Patsy Montana. "Black and White Rag" sold over 200,000 copies in 1908, and eventually topped one million copies sold. The song was recorded by numerous artists, but most notably by Winifred Atwell, whose 1953 recording became a gold record and was used as the theme of the long-running BBC2 snooker tournament show, "Pot Black". The song was also used as theme music for the 1985 video game Repton. "Grizzly Bear Rag" initially saw moderate success, but jumped in popularity when Irving Berlin composed lyrics for it. The song was recorded under titles including Dance of the Grizzly Bear and Doin' the Grizzly Bear, and helped spark a trend of naming dances after animals; the most notable example of this being the foxtrot. "Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay" became very popular in its time, and was recorded later by Bing Crosby for his 1975 album, A Southern Memoir.