The Trail Drivers of Texas. Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail...
first edition
1925 · Nashville, TN
by Hunter, J. Marvin [Compiler and Editor]
Nashville, TN: Cokesbury Press, 1925 Second edition, revised. Thick octavo. 2 volumes in one. Pp. xvi, 1044. Frontis, numerous portraits. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. Bookplate. A very fine copy with the extremely elusive pictorial dust jacket (foot of jacket spine shows two small chips with equally small stains from tape (removed), otherwise fine. With the bookplate of well-known Western Americana collector, R. F. McGraw. "This vast compilation of original accounts by old trail drivers is one of the best cattle books, and the largest collection of first hand narratives of the range cattle industry ... the Nashville editions contain material not in the ... original volumes ... the first editions are very crudely produced. The Nashville editions, on the other hand, are on good paper and well-bound ... an essential foundation book for any range library" (Reese). [Adams, Herd: 1103; Adams, Six-Guns: 1084; Dobie: p.108; Dykes, Kid: 77, 93, 98; Graff: 2020; Howes I: H-816; Howes II: H-803; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books: 99; Reese, Six Score: 61].. (Inventory #: 8248)