Buckboard Days

SOPHIE A POE

Publication: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1936, Caldwell

First edition. 8vo. Edited by Eugene Cunningham. Original cloth, black lettering on spine and front cover, grey endpapers, map on front and rear paste down sheets, 292 pp., frontispiece. [photograph], editor's foreword, preface, illustrated, notes, index. Mrs. Poe relates the frontier experiences of she and her husband, John William Poe, who was a buffalo hunter, U.S. Marshall, sheriff, rancher, and banker. Poe was present at the Maxwell ranch when Garrett killed Billy the Kid, and she gives his version of that incident. Includes many photographs from the famed N. H. Rose collection. The life of John W. Poe one of the deputies under Pat Garrett at the time of the Lincoln County War and the killing of Billy the Kid. Eventually Poe became sheriff of Lincoln County as he succeeded Garrett. Poe joined Garrett as a detective for the cattle association and deputy to track down Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner, in fact he was at Fort Sumner on the night Garrett killed the Kid in Pete Maxwell's bedroom. Poe eventually retired to become a cattleman and rancher, and finally a banker. Name and address stamp on front free fly leaf and half title page of Fred Mazzula, noted Colorado historian and author. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, with light creasing to top edge of rear cover, else a very good copy of an elusive title.