Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 274pp. Chapter end drawings by Fred Lambert. Cleaveland was author of the ranching classic, No Life For a Lady. The author here further describes life in the Cimarron area of New Mexico. She writes about some of the prime actors.....
NY: Abelard-Schuman, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Royal 8vo cloth. 150pp. Illus. Index. Bibliography. A nice item with brief summaries and portraits of significant cattlemen and cowboys. True first edition with dj of cowboy with arms crossed. Fine in dj.
Dodge City: Boot Hill Museum, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to gilt-stamped cloth. 202pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper maps. Presentation to someone and signed by Young. Vg. No dj.
Dalhart. First Thus. Soft cover. Original issue. 4to pictorial wraps showing XIT Headquarters, Division No. 1, Buffalo Springs. 99pp. Illus. Ads. Published in Dalhart, Texas. The XIT was once considered (around 1886) the largest ranch in the world, and it was fenced. The land was acquired by a Chicago syndicate.....
Williams Lake, BC: The Picture Man Photographic Workshop, 1978. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to pictorial blue and white stiff wraps. 312pp. Crammed with fabulous descriptive black and white photos of rodeo action. Inscribed by Wise with a rather scrawling presentation, "Jim / Good / working the / ?.....
NY: Beaufort Books, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 318pp. A fine account of ranching in the Chilcotin country of interior British Columbia. Vg in vg dj which has a mark on the back panel and the label of Wit's End Bookstore.
Saanichton & Seattle: Hancock House Pub Ltd, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 182pp. Illus. Signed by Roger along with a general, "best wishes." The author was born on the Cruikshank Ranch in Alberta. Her life after marriage continued on the "huge Chilco Ranch in the Chilcotin region of.....
n.p: n.p., 1910. Soft cover. This real photo post card (RPPC) of an unidentified mounted cowboy has a classic look it to it, and he is well appointed, as is his horse. This is a generic divided back post card with no stamp block. On the back of the card.....
Denver: Old West Publishing Co, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the Fred Rosenstock's Old West publishing company, limited to 999 copies finely designed & printed by the great El Paso printer, Carl Hertzog. Introduction by the equally great bookman and range authority, Jeff Dykes, who entertained me and.....