Here are several books that could help you get going. I know there are others.

Songs Of The Cowboys by N Howard Thorp. 1921 Houghton-Mifflin (reprinted 1984, Univ. Nebraska Press)

"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing "and Other Songs Cowboys Sing by Guy Logsdon. 1985 Univ of Illinois Press (paperback edition 1995)

Song Of The Great American West by Irwin Silber 1967 Macmillan Company (reprinted paperback, 1995. Dover)

Cowboy And Western Songs by Austin E. & Alta S. Fife. 1969 Creative Concepts Publishing Corp.

Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle by Katie Lee. 1976 Katydid Books And Records, Jerome AZ

Songs Of The Wild West by Alan Axelrod & Dan Fox. 1991 Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York

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