Incorrect reference-
N. Howard Thorp published "Texas Cowboy" in "Songs of the Cowboys," 1908, New Mexico Print Shop, Estancia, New Mexico, pp. 21-23.

"Sun and Saddle Leather" is by Badger Clark, first printed in 1915 but with several revisions- the 1952 edition printed by Chapman and Grimes is the best because the little volumes "Grass Grown Trails" and "New Poems" were added. Clark included no version of "The Texas Cowboy."

The Mudcat DT has "The Texas Cowboy," a version sung by Kathy Dagel, included in Austin E. and Alta S. Fife, 1969, "Cowboy and Western Songs, a Comprehensive Anthology," no. 31, pp. 91-92, with music and guitar chords. The lyrics are those collected by Thorp.

The Fifes' book includes a version printed in the Glendive (Montana) Independent, March 31, 1888.

Lyr. Add: THE TEXAS COWBOY
Montana, 1888

1.
I am a Texas cowboy, and I am far away from home,
If I ever get back to Texas, I never more will roam.
Montana is too cold for me, and the winters are too long,
Before the roundups do begin your money is all gone.
2.
Now, to win those fancy leggings you will have enough to do;
They cost me fourteen dollars the day that they were new.
And this old hen skin bedding too thin to keep me warm,
I nearly freeze to death my boys, whenever there comes a storm.
3.
I have worked down in Nebraska, where the grass grows ten feet high;
Where the cattle are such rustlers they hardly ever die.
I have been up in the sand hills, and down upon the Platte,
Where the punchers are good fellows and the cattle always fat.
4.
I have traveled lots of country, from Nebraska's hills of sand,
Down through the Indian Nation and up the Rio Grande.
But the badlands of Montana are the worst I ever seen,
Where the punchers are all tenderfeet and the dogies are so lean.
5.
They will wake you in the morning before the break of day,
And send you on a circle a hundred miles away.
Your grub is bread and bacon, with coffee black as ink,
And the water so full of alkali that it isn't fit to drink.
6.
If you want to see some badlands just go over on the Dry,
Where you'll bog down in the coulies and the mountains touch the sky,
With a tenderfoot to guide you who never knows the way,
And you are playing in the best of luck if you eat three times a day.
7.
Up along the Yellowstone it is cold the year around,
You will surely get comsumption if you sleep upon the ground.
And the wages almost nothing for six months in the year,
When you pay up all your outside debts you have nothing left for beer.
8.
Now all you Texas this warning take by me,
Don't come up to Montana to spend your money free,
But stay at home in Texas where there is work all the year around,
And you will never get consumption by sleeping on the ground.

Text C, pp. 93-94, Fife and Fife, 1969, "Cowboy and Western Songs, a Comprehensive Anthology."

A facsimile reprint of Thorp's 1908 book is included in the research volume by Fife and Fife, rather confusingly titled "Songs of the Cowboys, The First Printed Collection... by N. Howard (Jack) Thorp ... Variants, Commenary, Notes and Lexicon," 1966, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publisher, NY. The volume also includes the 1888 version posted above.