Lost Pony Tracks.

ROSS SANTEE

Publication: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953, New York

First edition. 8vo. Colorful pen & ink drawing on the front free fly leaf signed and dated in the year of publication. "All our love Rae, Ross" and "Eve & Connie 12/25/53." Pictorial cloth, [10], 303 pp., illustrated. by the author. Autobiographical account of the author's experiences as an Arizona horse wrangler during the early twentieth century. Santee documents the work, people, and landscapes that defined the American cowboy with chapters describing the demanding routines of ranch life ... breaking horses, branding cattle, repairing fences, gathering herds, and enduring long days in the saddle. Santee recounts stories of ranch foremen, seasoned cowhands, drifters, and ranch owners, offering a realistic, affectionate, and often humorous account of the people, horses, and hard work that shaped the ranching frontier.

Cloth lightly soiled, light wear to the foot of spine, red top is faded, else an internally clean and tight copy, in an attractive dust jacket with trivial wear to the extremities.