American Endurance. Buffalo Bill, The Great Cowboy Race Of 1893, And The Vanishing Wild West

RICHARD A. SERRANO

Publication: Smithsonian Books, 2016, Washington

First edition. 8vo. Tan cloth titles stamped in copper gilt on the front cover and spine, brown front and rear endpapers, [10], 260 pp., illustrated from photographs, portraits, map, postscript, sources, index. An account of the so-called "Great Cowboy Race" in which nine cowboys raced on horseback from Chadron, Nebraska to the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893. For two weeks they thundered past angry sheriffs, governors, and Humane Society inspectors intent on halting their race. Waiting for them at the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show right next to the World's Fair that had refused to allow his exhibition at the fair. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 52194