Riata and Spurs. The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Introduction by Gifford Pinchot. xiv, 276pp. Frontis, plates, portraits, facsimiles. Light brown cloth stamped in dark brown. A few small spots to rear cover, upper and lower front corners slightly jammed. A very good copy. First edition, containing the material on the Pinkerton Agency suppressed in the revised edition. "Very scarce." The original edition was recalled by the publisher because of objectionable material. In the revised edition, pages 120 to 268 were suppressed and all references to the author's experiences with the Pinkerton Agency were cut out and material on bad men substituted. "Only a few copies of the original printing survived; hence its scarcity" (Six-Guns). [Adams, Six-Guns: 2030; Adams, Herd: 2075; Adams, One-Fifty: 125; Howes I: S-517; Howes II: S-524; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books: 185n]. .