This was the first cowboy song book published in America, and Thorpís lyrics were the beginning of the popularization of the American cowboy. This book lists 24 songs that can be learned and sung today.

(Creative Concepts Publishing). This info-packed, 372-page collection features 200 American cowboy songs with complete lyrics, lead lines and guitar chords, plus an extensive introduction, notes on the songs, illustrations by J.K. Ralston throughout, a lexicon of cowboy terms, a general index and an index of titles and first lines, and more. Songs include: Billy the Kid * Blood on the Saddle * Buffalo Gals * Clementine * Dakota Land * The Girl I Left Behind Me * Going West * Jesse James * Johnny Cake * Old Paint * Punchin' Dough * Red River Valley * Red Wing * Shenandoah * Steamboat Bill * The Streets of Laredo * The Texas Cowboy * and many more.

This is the second edition of the of Thorp's book. It was greatly expanded over the first edition, included over a hundred songs and poems, including 25 pieces written by Thorp and an introduction by Alice Corbin Henderson. Writer, editor, and poet Alice Corbin Henderson was perhaps best known as assistant editor to Harriet Moore, founder of Poetry magazine (Henderson is sometimes credited as the magazine's "co-founder").