In the 1908 "Songs of the Cowboys," the verse beginning "He saddled me up...." is verse five, not nine: facsimile of Thorp 1908 in 1966 volume, confusingly titled "Songs of The Cowboys" by N. Howard (Jack) Thorp, Variants, Commentary, Notes and Lexicon, by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife, 1966; where the verses are in the numbered order 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, ...in the Fife text p. 47; as remarked in the post by Artful Codger).

John A. Lomax, in "Cowboy Songs," 1925, titled the song "The Horse Wrangler" He provided no notes; this may have appeared first in the 1910 or 1916 printings, but I don't have those). A few lines differ, and he added the verse "I've travelled up...." which has a different 'feel' from the others. Laws and The Traditional Ballads Index use this title (Thorp's original 1908 paper not consulted).

Lomax and Lomax, 1938, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads," again printed the verses from the earlier edition and added two tunes, the first without remark and the second adapted from Pat Rooney's tune in the New York Mercury, 1902. They state, "The original of this song was published in the Miles City (Montana) Stock Grower's Journal, Feb. 3, 1894, under the pseudonym R, J. Stovall. The author's real name is D. J. O'Malley, and he lives in Eau Clare, Wisconsin. Typical of the Lomaxes, no mention is made of Thorp in the notes.

Probably working from manuscript notes, Fife and Fife (1966) state (see Artful Codger, above), "It was submitted to John A. Lomax by A. S. Jackson of Dickens, Texas, sometime after 1907, with the significant statement: "I am sending....composed by myself and another puncher during the summer of '79....."

Jules Verne Allen published his version, with a different tune, in "Cowboy Lore," 1935, p. 89-90. Fife and Fife simplify the notation of the tune printed by Verne.