Publication: Texas Folklore Society, 1942, Austin
First edition. 8vo. Cloth, xiii [3], 159 pp. Arranged and with an Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. Illustrated by B. E. Lewis. Carl Hertzog imprint. The author worked cattle over the Old Beef Trail into Louisiana, and was an inveterate hunter of deer and turkey and regarded fishing as a natural part of life. A laid-in printed pre-publication letter signed by J. Frank Dobie, Secretary of the Texas Folklore Society and dated October 15, 1942, says in part: "This book...is not a numbered publication, but it is being sent out in lieu of a numbered volume for 1942, in this year the Texas Folklore Society is issuing the first of its Range Life Series." The author was born in the 1860s on an old-time East Texas ranch, near the Louisiana line on the edge of the Big Thicket. Former owner's inked name on front pastedown sheet (covered by the dust jacket flap), else very good in dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine, with a small old water stain to a small portion of the top edge of front cover, and with light wear to the extremities. The laid-in publicity letter is uncommon today and provides insight to the establishment of the Texas Folklore Society.
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