Charles Goodnight Cowman & Plainsman.

J. EVETTS HALEY

Other works by J. EVETTS HALEY

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936, Boston

First edition. Thick 8vo. With the bookplate of Frank Dobie affixed to the front pastedown sheet. Original tan cloth lettered in brown, xii, [3], 485 pp., illustrated by H. D. Bugbee. Most recommended work on the cattle industry: Merrill "Aristocrats of the Cow Country," "Dobie 44 Range Country Books," Campbell "My Favorite 101 Books About the Cattle Industry," Reese Six Score: "The 120 Best Books on the Range Cattle Industry"---one of only eight books on all four cattle lists; Dykes Western High Spots, Greene Fifty Best Books on Texas, Jenkins Basic Texas Books. "The greatest biography of a cowman ever written, and one of the most important and authentic items of western biography of all time." Dykes Billy The Kid. "Goodnight, powerful individual and extraordinary observer, summed up in himself the whole life of range and trail. Haley's book packed with realities of incident and character, paints him against a mighty background." Dobie Life and Literature of the Southwest. "For more than 70 years Goodnight was a dominant figure in the range and cattle business of the West. He established the JA Ranch, and this biography does full justice to the part he played in that colorful era." Walter S.Campbell [Stanley Vestal].

Fine, bright, tight copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket, with trivial wear to spine ends and the extremities. Housed in a clamshell case There may be another copy as good as this copy, but none better.

Inventory Number: 54553