Faces of the Frontier.
[1967] · New York
by Bjorklund, Lorence F.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1967]. Quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), 119 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signiture, in a Good dust jacket with some soiling to covers and shelfwear that includes several chips along top edge. “A noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American fronteir West -- the personalities who made it the rough-and-ready, always colorful, sometimes cruel palce it was. Here you meet -- in pencil portraits, background drawings, and through word sketches that capture the essence and flavor of each character -- the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboat captain, vaquero, peddler, gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook, missionary, and all the rest -- fifty-four individuals from the period between 1800 and 1900...His book is vibrantly alive with the spirit of a unique and unforgettable era in America’s history.” (Inventory #: 30436s)