West Virginia fiddler Wilson Douglas stated that regionally (i.e. eastern Kentucky/West Virginia/southern Ohio) influential fiddler Ed Haley played this tune. John Hartford notes that R.P. Christeson's source, Uncle Bob Walters' family moved to Iowa from Kentucky in the mid-1800's and that both Walters' father and grandfather were fiddlers. His implication is that this musical family brought the tune to the mid-west from eastern Kentucky. I learned this originally from Bob Carlin's arrangement printed in Ken Perlman's Melodic Clawhammer Banjo (1979). This arrangement is similar to Carlin's with some modifications.