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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. Some light tanning and marking due to age. Best copy of this book I have seen. No dustcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The story will be mostly about my experiences as a vaquero in the brush of South-west Texas’ he said ‘but the trail will stretch to the Platte circle around Dodge City and prong out across the Plains up into the Rockies. It will meander all up and down the Nueces Pecos and Devil’s rivers. It will often cut the sign of bandidos from below the Rio Grande and it will follow the tracks of cow thieves horse thieves and Billy the Kid. This trail of mine will lead into immense boneyards that marked the drifts and die-ups of the open range. It will run into the Big Steal into mustangs rattlesnakes bob-wire and a lot of other things. need somebody to go over the writing and put it into shape. I’ll We made medicine and John Young began firing in certain episodes out of his career. But the book that has resulted can hardly be considered as the biography of a single man. The r?le that John Young played was not unusual for the range men of his day; it was representative of the unfenced world. My own interest has been in the genius of that unfenced wind. Hence I have sought to make a book that should be considerably more than the straightaway chronicle of one range man’s experiences though considerably less than a comprehensive history of the range. It is a combination of range adventurings and range back- grounds emphasis having been thrown on features little known to either the public or special students of early cattle days. (SP)