History Of The Chisum War; Or, Life Of Ike Fridge, Stirring Events Of Cowboy Life On The Frontier As Told To Jodie D. Smith, Electra, Texas.

IKE FRIDGE

Publication: Smith, 1927, Electra

First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, [i-ii, ii blank], 1-70 pp. [71, illus]. 22 x 15cm., frontispiece, illustrated. J. Frank Dobie says it best,"Ike Fridge's pamphlet story of his ridings for John Chisum..chief provider of cattle for Billy the Kid to steal...has more of the juice of reality in it and, therefore, more of literary value than some of James Fenimore Cooper's novels, and than some of James Russell Lowell's odes...as compact as jerked beef and as laconic as conversation in alkali dust." A fine, bright and sound copy of this rare cowboy memoir. Housed in a clamshell case with titles on the spine. This is the nicest copy we've handled in years.