Seventy Years on the Frontier, Alexander Majors' Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border

Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 325 pp + advertisements, with frontispiece, illustrations, in original blue cloth with beveled edges. Light rubbing to extremities, gift inscription on front blank; otherwise unmarked and sound. Majors was one of the founders of the Pony Express. Late in life, when he was impoverished, Cody gave him a part in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The "Major" Burke to whom this book is inscribed was a publicist and press agent who managed the Wild West Show. Graff 2664; Rader 2334; Smith 6488; Howes M-232. (Inventory #: 23011)