Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious spelling/typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Transcriber’s notes in text—mostly detailing corrections—are indicated by faint dotted underlining. Scroll the mouse over the word and the note will appear.
Inconsistent spelling and inline hyphenation occurs across poems and songs and is retained.
Introduction: original shows “Travelling” printed across a line break.
Page 9: “Adios” appears once, “Adiós” elsewhere.
Page 68: “good-bye” appears once, “goodbye” elsewhere.
Page 90: “sage-brush” appears once, “sagebrush” elsewhere.
Page 115: original illegible. “You” appears in the author's transcription of the song in John Avery Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, 338, (Macmillan 1918), http://www.archive.org/details/cowboysongsother00lomarich (accessed March 29, 2007).
Page 139: “hang-man” hyphenation retained.
Page 183: “roundup” appears once, “round-up” elsewhere.