Cow People

J. FRANK DOBIE

Publication: Little, Brown and Company, 1964, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, 305 pp. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners. One of approximately 50 copies that survived of a total of 75 copies issued by the publisher bound in full cloth and with a tipped-in sheet signed by the author. Because Dobie died before the regular edition of this book was issued, this is without a doubt the most difficult of the author's books to find autographed. This copy from the collection of Bill Wittliff. Through his own experiences, direct interviews with his subjects and through second-hand stories, Dobie chronicles the stories of the real men of the old west .. the cooks, cowhands, drive captains, and cattle barons.